six-and-twenty-for

Updated: May 9, 2025

She was of the tallest of women, and at her then age of six-and-twenty-for six-and-twenty she was, though she vows she was only nineteen in the prime and fulness of her beauty. Her eyes, when she lifted them up to gaze on you, and ere she dropped their purple deep-fringed lids, shone with tenderness and mystery unfathomable.

William Makepeace Thackeray - The History of Pendennis