On March the twenty-first is Spring, When little birds begin to sing; Begin to build and hatch their brood, And carefully provide them food.

To-day the throng of candidates had dwindled down to some forty, of whom perhaps twenty were new men.

Twenty, thirty, forty thousand lire, more, even, at one stroke; why, it's a fortune!

The revolution of the thirty-first of May, 1793, was not a contest for system but for powerthat of July the twenty-eighth, 1794, (9th Thermidor,) was merely a struggle which of two parties should sacrifice the otherthat of October the fifth, 1795, (13th Vendemiaire,) a war of the government against the people.

Only twenty men were applicants; the other twenty were friends who had come to see them get the place.

And only once did she regret her surrender; and that was when it flashed across her one day that twenty would have been a prettier number: but she stifled that pain as years went on, and grew happy.

Pericles gained a signal victory over them in a sea-fight off the Goats' Island, beating a fleet of seventy ships with only forty-four, twenty of which were transports.

Twenty is certainly a genuine thumb-print.