five-and-twenty-mile

Updated: July 2, 2026

Fifteen miles to Muggleton two miles further to Manor Farm and all done between eleven o'clock, and a period "late in the afternoon" say five o'clock. At a later visit came the memorable five-and-twenty-mile walk to get an appetite for dinner. The truth was, such stretches were as nothing to Boz himself. Walking was his grand pastime and one absolute necessity.

Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - Pickwickian Studies