twenty-seventhly

Updated: June 1, 2025

Is the English Church, does she claim to be, a messenger from God? Does she impart the truth, or bid us seek it? If she leaves us to seek it, do members of the English Church seek it with that earnestness which Scripture enjoins? Is a person safe who lives without faith, even though he seems to have hope and charity?" Charles got very sleepy before he reached the "twenty-seventhly."

John Henry Newman - Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert

This was a very ostentatious way of reminding the clergyman how long he had preached; but if it were a hint to bring the discourse to an end, it was never heeded; for contemporary historical registers tell of most painfully long sermons, reaching up through long sub-divisions and heads to "twenty-seventhly" and "twenty-eighthly."

Alice Morse Earle - Sabbath in Puritan New England