one-and-fifty

Updated: June 1, 2025

I don't know what it is, drink or temper, or want of judgment, but something there must be." "I assure you there is nothing, but I find myself stranded, and so have to turn to the old business again." "Oh, that's it," said the manager, with suspicion in his eye. "How long were you in your last billet?" "Fifty-one years." "What!" "Yes, sir, one-and-fifty years." "In the same employ?" "Yes."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Beyond the City

The number of protestants attainted by name in this act amounted to about three thousand, including two archbishops, one duke, seventeen earls, seven countesses, as many bishops, eighteen barons, three-and-thirty baronets, one-and-fifty knights, eighty-three clergymen, who were declared traitors, and adjudged to suffer the pains of death and forfeiture.

T. (Tobias) Smollett - The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. : Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II.