Hundreds

Examples

• 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.
• From first to last the Roman Empire must have killed hundreds of thousands of men in that way. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Hundreds, said Miss Pross. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• After what has been said in previous chapters, it will not seem so strange that Edison should have hundreds of dormant inventions on his hands. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There are hundreds of people here, that I must positively introduce you to. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• These are but typical of hundreds of men who could be named who have risen from work at the key to become recognized leaders in differing spheres of activity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Around the room, on shelves, are hundreds of bottles each containing a small quantity of nickel hydrate made in as many different ways, each labelled correspondingly. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Everything which is in the market goes to Milverton, and there are hundreds in this great city who turn white at his name. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I told him to let the cable stand still and send electricity through it, and he would not have to move hundreds of tons of metal all the time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As my eyes wandered about the garden, the sight of the hundreds of air craft lying unguarded around us suggested the simplest avenue to freedom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It isn't the first time, by a good many hundreds, that I find myself treading on delicate ground, answered the other, as immovable as ever. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Hundreds of pieces are necessary for the complete set. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• With hundreds of others I was supposed to found my economic understanding upon it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The note-books contain hundreds of pages showing that a great many thousands of experiments were tried and passed upon. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is quite another to reproduce in one place the exact inflection, tone, and quality of a voice that is speaking hundreds of miles away, across rivers and mountains. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It must be borne in mind that the laboratory is only the core of a group of buildings devoted to production on a huge scale by hundreds of artisans. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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