Hundred

Examples

• It's a hundred and ten pounds, the deuce take it! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She asks for a hundred pounds, and endeavors to buy them off. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I am sufficiently well off to keep a hundred and fifty ton steam yacht, which is at present lying at Southampton, ready to start when I wish. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I happen to know that he paid seven hundred pounds to a footman for a note two lines in length, and that the ruin of a noble family was the result. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Five days' journey from here--say two hundred miles--are the ruins of an ancient city, of whose history there is neither record nor tradition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• At this point the water recedes a few hundred yards from the high land. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It cannot have been upward of three hundred and seventy or eighty days. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• This was Brother Alexander--dead two hundred and eighty years. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Jos's London agents had orders to pay one hundred and twenty pounds yearly to his parents at Fulham. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Upward of three thousand such machines were then at work throughout the world; and one hundred and fifty million pairs of boots were then being made annually thereon. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He left his dead and nearly all his wounded in our hands, and about four hundred prisoners and several hundred horses. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I knew it was three hundred and sixty-four feet wide, and consequently wider than the capitol. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Searchlights have recently been made capable of being seen nearly a hundred miles away. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• At the same time I heard the reapers not a hundred yards behind me. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The tribe was a big family; the nation a group of tribal families; a household often contained hundreds of people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Hundreds of People The quiet lodgings of Doctor Manette were in a quiet street-corner not far from Soho-square. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The horses' hoofs have bored holes in these rocks to the depth of six inches during the hundreds and hundreds of years that the castle was garrisoned. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Hundreds of cities and millions of dollars have been thus saved from destruction. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Give us a couple of hundreds--come, that's modest--and I'll go away--honor bright! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Turning to the right and left he captured several guns and some hundreds of prisoners. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I had been met in this manner, in the course of plying the good work, hundreds of times. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It is said there are hundreds of people in this curious city who never have seen a living horse in their lives. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• So, when I am after a chemical result that I have in mind, I may make hundreds or thousands of experiments out of which there may be one that promises results in the right direction. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Those few hundreds of French gentlefolk fell into a pit that most of them had been well content should exist for others. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When this date approaches bands of natives set out from their primitive homes and go, in many instances, hundreds of miles into the forest lowlands. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Dozens of photographs of this sort, and all inscribed in this manner, were completed before I left Cumberland, and hundreds more remain to be done. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The mines, for him, were primarily great fields to produce bread and plenty for all the hundreds of human beings gathered about them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was exploited under the powerful patronage of a syndicate of newspaper men, and hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent in perfecting it before any practical results were obtained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• So I went down to Quogue with one of my assistants and saw there for miles large beds of black sand on the beach in layers from one to six inches thick--hundreds of thousands of tons. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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