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Twenty-eight

noun

The cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-seven and one. Synonyms: 28, XXVIII.

adjective

Being eight more than twenty. Synonyms: 28, xxviii.

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... inclement weather we set sail; and I remember well that the pilot, Fowler by name, as he was about to leave the vessel, throwing his leg over the bulwarks, said in his gruff voice to our skipper, "I will give you twenty-eight days to ...

— Piracy off the Florida Coast and Elsewhere • Samuel A. Green

... is she, Billy Boy, Billy Boy, How old is she, charming Billy? "She is three times six, four times seven, Twenty-eight and eleven— She's a young thing ...

— Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) - Fun and Thought for Little Folk • Various

... three hundred and sixty feet. And Lacepede, the French naturalist, in his elaborate history of whales, in the very beginning of his work (page 3), sets down the Right Whale at one hundred metres, three hundred and twenty-eight feet. And this work was published so ...

— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville

... suburbs of Munich they stand at every village by day and by night to see that nothing happens to the Fatherland! And even if we were stopped twenty-eight times in this short distance; even if we did have to put up with hard words and black looks—we suffered all this gladly. We rejoiced to see with our own eyes how valiantly our peasants defend the frontiers of ...

— What Germany Thinks - The War as Germans see it • Thomas F. A. Smith

... For twenty-eight days that insignificant fortress and its handful of men defied the great Turkish army and held it back in that mountain-pass. In the end the sultan, with all his pride and all his force, was obliged to accept a feigned submission ...

— Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality, German • Charles Morris

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