"Twenty-one" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shyness, a mistrust of himself, which proceeds from his education as much as from his disposition. He is afraid to command, and, above all things, dreads speaking to assembled numbers. He lived like a child, and always ill at ease under the eyes of Louis XV., until the age of twenty-one. This ...
— Memoirs Of The Court Of Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France, Complete • Madame Campan
... been fighting for the King mightily. I remain ... in this Beth Amilla(333) ... from before me thirteen ... I am giving ten slaves ... Suuta the King's Paka (resident) takes charge from before me of twenty-one slave women. Twenty chiefs who remain trusty to my hand Suuta has led away to the King my Lord,(334) which the King advises to his country. The whole of the King's country, which is seized from me, is ruined. They have ...
— Egyptian Literature
... Augustus would be one of the first orators in England. He was in a hurry to have him ready to enter college, and had a borough secure for him at the proper age. The proper age, he regretted, that parliament had fixed to twenty-one; for the alderman was impatient to introduce his young statesman to the house, especially as he saw honours, perhaps a title, in the distant ...
— Tales And Novels, Volume 1 • Maria Edgeworth
... life of so many thousands of England's manhood which impressed the stamp of premature seriousness on all those who came through. And Captain Sir Horace Trevert, Bart., D.S.O., had gone from his famous school straight into a famous regiment, had won his decoration before he was twenty-one, and been ...
— The Yellow Streak • Williams, Valentine
... "It isn't the money that we are worrying about. Why, ask your father, Nina! Ask him if he wouldn't write Royal Blondin a check for any sum to-day, ANY sum, if you and he would promise solemnly to wait three years more. You will only be twenty-one then, Nina, ...
— Harriet and the Piper - (Norris Volume XI) • Kathleen Norris
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