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But then no such thing as a twenty-fourth note is in use: three twenty-fourths would just do it!

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

Only that, as Sunday was exempted, the rigorous expression of the quota was one fourth of six-sevenths, which makes sixty twenty-eighths and not six twenty-fourths of the total time.

From Biographical Essays by De Quincey, Thomas

Any number of farthings is as many mils and as many twenty-fourths of a mil.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene

"We are twenty-three twenty-fourths of the nation, and the more useful part at that," retorted the Commons.

From The Eve of the French Revolution by Lowell, Edward J. (Edward Jackson)