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Joe Buck 27

Now at this time in which Joe Buck was coming out of the West on that Greyhound bus to seek his fortune in the East, he was already 27 years old. But he had behind him as little experience of life as a boy of eighteen, and in some ways even less.

He had been raised by various blondes. The first three who brought him up to the age of seven, were young and pretty.

James Leo Herlihy · Midnight Cowboy

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Richard Francis Fanshawe

Of Love and Hunger

Julian Maclaren-Ross

"I’m twenty-seven..."

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Edward Ashburnham

The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion

Ford Madox Ford

"He was twenty-seven then, and his wife was out of sympathy with him—some crash was inevitable..."

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Terence Hewet

The Voyage Out

Virginia Woolf

"At the age of twenty-seven, which is nearly thirty, you seem to have drawn no conclusions..."

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Frederick Winterbourne

Daisy Miller

Henry James

"He was some seven-and-twenty years of age; when his friends spoke of him, they usually said he was at Geneva, ‘studying’..."

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Joseph

Dangling Man

Saul Bellow

"Joseph, aged twenty-seven, an employee of the Inter-American Travel Bureau, a tall, already slightly flabby but, nevertheless, handsome young man..."

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Tertius Lydgate

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

George Eliot

"He was certainly a happy fellow at this time: to be seven-and-twenty, without any fixed vices..."