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Sentences ending with hundred

That is necessarily what would have happened in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. [5]
I made a very nice picture of that man's house and I wanted to offer it to him for ten francs, but that wouldn't answer, seeing I was the pupil of such a master, so I sold it to him for a hundred. [5]
I borrowed the trifle and banked the five hundred. [5]
They numbered, I think, one or two hundred. [7]
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred? [6]
They came by the hundred. [5]
I am told that these oranges are sold for a couple of francs a hundred. [4]
One writer says that the slowest glacier travels twenty-give feet a year, and the fastest four hundred. [5]
Let us be thankful, even after thirty-two years, that they are mercifully ignorant of the fact that it isn't six hundred and fifty that they must creep on the hatful, but twenty-two hundred! [5]
One could not swear she was not a hundred. [6]

Short sentences using hundred

You're a hundred to one. [11]
Yes, a hundred times yes. [10]
Faith, a hundred times less! [11]
Four hundred from--from--from that gentleman. [9]
One hundred and ten dollars! [4]
Only three hundred miles? [5]
Say seventeen hundred, maybe? [5]
Is it eight hundred? [9]
There are four hundred? [2]
We were two hundred. [11]

Sentences containing hundred two or more times

One man, whom your correspondent spoke to, said that he had had one hundred and fifty head of cattle and one hundred head of hogs. [5]
My uncle's Oregon-echo, which he called the Great Pitt Echo, was a twenty-two carat gem, and cost two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars--they threw the land in, for it was four hundred miles from a settlement. [5]
And what wonder, when there are twelve hundred pictures by Palma the Younger in Venice and fifteen hundred by Tintoretto? [5]
If the evidence went as far to establish a guilty profit of one or two hundred thousand dollars, as it does of one or two hundred dollars, the case would, on the question of guilt, bear a far different aspect. [7]
Past Chimney Rock we fly--noble shaft of six hundred feet; then just before landing at Minnieska our attention is attracted by a most striking promontory rising over five hundred feet-- the ideal mountain pyramid. [5]
We estimate that we are within seven hundred miles of the Sandwich Islands, and that our average, daily, is somewhat over a hundred miles, so that our hopes have some foundation in reason. [5]
The plantation contains two thousand six hundred acres; six hundred and fifty are in cane; and there is a fruitful orange grove of five thousand trees. [5]
Those sittings added to those that have preceded them since I have been in Europe--if we average at that rate--must have numbered one hundred to two hundred sittings. [5]
He is obliged to be at Pike court where he has a case, with a fee of five hundred dollars, two hundred dollars already paid. [7]
Gideon, with only three hundred men, surprised them in the night, and stood by and looked on while they butchered each other until a hundred and twenty thousand lay dead on the field. [5]

More example sentences with the word hundred in them

You can settle yourselves in a hundred different ways in New York, that is one merit of the place. [8]
You'd gamble with your immortal soul, but you wouldn't sell it--not for three millions, not for a hundred times three millions. [11]
They have helped your excellency with the Indians a hundred times. [11]
This is a young tree, with a future before it, if barbarians do not meddle with it, more conspicuous for its spread than its circumference, stretching not very far from a hundred feet from bough-end to bough-end. [6]
I'd think of you; of our people that have been here for two hundred years; of the rooms in the old house where mother used to be. [11]
I appeal to you, Mr. Ritchie,"--he was still talking in French--"I appeal to you, who are a man of affairs,"--and he swept me a bow,--"if a captain would risk taking a fugitive to France for eight hundred livres? [9]
Ameni would tell you that ten souls, no, nor a hundred, do not matter when the safety of the whole is in question. [10]
Gustave Blittersdorf, who you say is enlisted in the One hundred and nineteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers as William Fox, is proven to me to be only fifteen years old last January. [7]
As long as you run across Englishmen born this side of three hundred years ago, you are all right; but the minute you get back of Elizabeth's time the language begins to fog up, and the further back you go the foggier it gets. [5]
Why, Cap., don't you know, it's as much as a hundred times worse in there now than it was when he first got a-going. [5]
For every master you have yet sent can find the way as well as he, so that an hundred pounds might be spared, which is more than we have all, that helps to pay him wages. [4]
As it is, you have fallen into an annuity of one hundred and fifty pounds a year; but I think I may congratulate you even upon that. [12]
I know what you have done for me--" "I pleaded with Monsieur Fournel, knowing how you loved the Seigneury-- pleaded and offered to pay three times the price--" "Yourself would have been a hundred million times the price. [11]
To your sorrow you are aware that frequently, much too frequently, when a book gets to be five or ten years old its annual sale shrinks to two or three hundred copies, and after an added ten or twenty years ceases to sell. [5]
That would make you a hundred and eighty years old. [5]
But it is yet a thousand-fold more painful to feel that the love which every woman has a right to possess for herself alone, must be shared with a hundred others! [10]
But so; and yesterday she told me she had only a hundred dollars left. [11]
He wore my yellow and green, sir, until he got to weigh one hundred and a quarter. [9]
During those 1500 years, Satan's influence was worth very nearly a hundred times as much to the business as was the influence of all the rest of the Holy Family put together. [5]
For a hundred years we have reckoned it progress, that the people were taking part in government. [4]
In seven hundred years wages will have risen to six times what they are now, here in your region, and farm hands will be allowed 3 cents a day, and mechanics 6. [5]
For a hundred years the South was developed on its own lines, with astonishingly little exterior bias. [4]
For fourteen hundred years St. Mark has been her patron saint. [5]
In another hundred years it will be as incredible that men talked as we sometimes hear them now. [6]
To a hundred years for Jean Jacques! [11]
Why, two hundred years before the King was born, an Enderby was promised an earldom. [11]
A hundred more years and many of the barbarisms still lingering among us will, of course, have disappeared like witch-hanging. [6]
Nearly seven hundred years ago, that castle was the property of the noble Count Luigi Gennaro Guido Alphonso di Genova----" "What was his other name? [5]
Bound a hundred years ago, perhaps, and one of the rich old browned covers gone--what a pity! [6]
Nearly a hundred years ago the crew of the British ship Bounty mutinied, set the captain and his officers adrift upon the open sea, took possession of the ship, and sailed southward. [5]
Just a hundred years ago a European rushed in behind the bearers and fed his brutal curiosity with a glimpse of the forbidden mysteries of the place. [5]
And not many years after the time of which I now write Lord Carlisle was paying fifteen hundred a year on the sum he had loaned him, cheerfully denying himself the pleasures of London as a consequence. [9]
About two hundred yards off, in the flat, we built a pen of scantlings, about four feet high, and laid planks on it, and so made a platform. [5]
Only five hundred yards below the bridge was the second cataract, and she would never have waked if she had been carried into it. [11]
About two hundred yards away there's a tavern where ours have already gathered. [2]
Now I never wrote a "good" line in my life, but the moment after it was written it seemed a hundred years old. [6]
Five hundred consumers would prematurely exhaust the already insufficient stock of provisions. [10]
Ten feet more would have taken me in one gigantic leaps of eight hundred feet on to the glacier below. [5]
The next Sunday would be Easter, and she thought of a hundred ways in which she could make it brighter for so many of the unfortunates. [4]
Mr. Isaac D. Worthington stood erect beside the table, his hand thrust into the opening of his coat, and spoke at the rate of one hundred and eight words a minute, for exactly one hour. [9]
It would be worth to the nation a hundred years purchase of peace and prosperity. [7]
Trees won't grow worth chucks in a Cincinnati graveyard, but in a Sent Louis graveyard they grow upwards of eight hundred foot high. [5]
Imagine a man worth a hundred millions who finds himself suddenly penniless and fifty million in debt in his old age. [5]
His clothes are worn threadbare; and he looks as thin and poor as a Methodist minister in a stony town at home, on three hundred a year. [4]
And now the work was complete, and on board the Bridgwater Merchant was treasure to the sum of three hundred thousand pounds, and more. [11]
It is a wonder that this slight-looking structure can have survived the blasts, and thunderbolts, and earthquakes, and the weakening effects of time on its stones and timbers for five hundred years. [6]
Now it is won, I would give it up and a hundred times as much to hear you say, 'Come to Skaw Fell again. [11]
When they were within three hundred yards he deliberately led Wrangle out into the trail. [13]
Two horsemen were within a hundred yards, coming straight at him. [13]
But, Bess, the Withersteen herd, the red herd-- twenty-five hundred head! [13]
All of them, with the questionable exception of the Springfield tree above referred to, stop, so far as my experience goes, at about twenty-two or twenty-three feet of girth and a hundred and twenty of spread. [6]
He was standing with the group of marksmen, observing--a hundred yards from the target, mind; one jasper raised his rifle and drove the centre of the bull's-eye. [5]
It was brilliant with sunshine, and the vast smooth bulge seemed hardly five hundred yards away. [5]
Blushing, and confused with shyness, she remained standing by Caesar's seat; and though she only ventured to raise her eyes now and then for a stolen look, she felt herself the object of a hundred curious, defiant, bold, or contemptuous glances. [10]
I say it with shame, that I have learned fifty times, yes, a hundred times more about New Zealand in these two hours at this table than I ever knew before in all the eighteen years put together. [5]
These gallant gentlemen, with one hundred and fifty souls, had been wrecked on the Bermudas in the Sea Venture in the preceding July. [4]
Your grandfather's balance with me was something less than one thousand five hundred, as I made him a remittance in December last. [9]
Write not "Lost," with its grinding bans, On life, or the Bridge of the Hundred Spans. [11]
When a person with his millions gives a hundred thousand dollars it makes a great noise in the world, but he does not miss it; it's the widow's mite that makes no noise but does the best work. [5]
This being received with a large silence that suggested doubt, he buttressed it with the statement that his brother once saw the boomerang kill a bird away off a hundred yards and bring it to the thrower. [5]
A name credited with a dozen murders, a hundred forays, and a thousand stealings of cattle. [13]
It is a wine-cask as big as a cottage, and some traditions say it holds eighteen thousand bottles, and other traditions say it holds eighteen hundred million barrels. [5]
A hundred signs--I will tell you about it later--make it a certainty to me. [10]
After this you will not be frightened by the thought of paying three hundred dollars for a little quarto giving an account of the Virginia Adventurers. [6]
A bright pupil will learn to get the outline of a human figure in ten lessons, the model coming five hundred feet nearer each time. [6]
With joy I will do this, and a hundred times more. [11]
Your wedding present will be the ranch and a hundred thousand dollars," she added. [11]
I don't see why an officer should get two thousand five hundred times as much as a seaman. [11]
Our Venetian, Busino, who went to Oxford in the coach with the ambassador in 1617, was six days in going one hundred and fifty miles, as the coach often stuck in the mud, and once broke down. [4]
We don't know who the friend was to whom he offered a quarter interest for the modest sum of two hundred thousand dollars. [5]
The great master, who knew so well how to make a hundred instruments rejoice in unison and pour out their souls in mingled and melodious tides of delicious sound, deals only in barren solos when he puts in the vocal parts. [5]
Two only escaped, who fled to the desert, and were followed one hundred and fifty miles before they were overtaken and slaughtered. [5]
The five hundred who during the next three months are to register the laws find quarters as best they can. [9]
The famous Ruysch, who died a hundred and thirty years ago, showed that each of the viscera has its terminal vessels arranged in its own peculiar way; the same fact which you may see illustrated in Gerber's figures after the minute injections of Berres. [3]
All of us who did not vote for Mr. Buchanan, taken together, are a majority of four hundred thousand. [7]
My Lord March, who did me the honour to lay one hundred pounds upon my skill, insisted that I should make one of a party to the famous amphitheatre near Lambeth. [9]
In a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the "pony-rider"--the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacramento, carrying letters nineteen hundred miles in eight days! [5]
Such a little while ago I came to this table with the thought of winning a hundred rubles to buy that casket for Mamma's name day and then going home. [2]
Presently land appeared, which they took to be the continent, and coasted along to the northward a hundred and thirty miles before finding a harbor. [4]
The sloop from which they came, and the schooner, its consort, were bound for Gaspe, to bring provisions for several hundred Indians assembled at Miramichi and Aristiguish, who were to go by these same vessels to re-enforce the garrison of Quebec. [11]
An infantry regiment which had left Tarutino three thousand strong but now numbered only nine hundred was one of the first to arrive that night at its halting place--a village on the highroad. [2]
The upper gallery which encircles the inner sweep of the dome is two hundred and forty feet above the floor of the church--very few steeples in America could reach up to it. [5]
Still, I doubt whether in my hands and his together it ever before yesterday slaughtered a hundred thousand. [10]
Augustine, p. 246) where he recounts having captured one hundred Sarmatian virgins, and unmaidened ten of them in one night, together with the happenings subsequent thereto. [5]
No--keep your popgun; whenever I see the day that I'll be afraid to have you behind me with that thing, it 'll be time for me to join last year's hundred and eighty-two"; and he rode off in a walk, Shadbelly following. [5]
By good luck, when I had paid into Mr. Dix's hand the thousand pounds I had received from Charles Fox, and cleared my outstanding bills, the sum I remained in Comyn's debt was not greatly above seven hundred pounds. [9]
I asked him what they meant by sending that slick Mr. Tooting 'raound to offer me five hundred dollars. [9]
His despatch stating what he had caught got an instant answer: "Send the whole thing--all the details--twelve hundred words. [5]
Then just think what can be done with two hundred and thirty rubles! [2]
Lucretia and Virginia were the first that he thought of; but then came up those pictured stories of Titus Livius, which he could never read without crying, though he had read them a hundred times. [6]
The other class were the active agents, and were termed strikers, and amounted to about six hundred and fifty. [5]
In the hold were more than one hundred and fifty English prisoners. [9]
Twelve hundred men were landed at Beauport, in the mud and low water, under one Major Walley. [11]
A hundred guns were instantly leveled at him; whereupon he turned and fled; but, being brought back, he was compelled to resume his coat, and to give a promise of future peaceable demeanor. [5]
A hundred eyes were fastened upon the canvas-covered statue, which had been the means of the young man's undoing. [11]
These mighty defences were crowned and strengthened by two hundred and fifty high towers, and even these would have been insufficient, if Babylon had not been protected on one side by impassable morasses. [10]
A hundred thoughts were busy in her brain--of her father; of the woman who had just left; of her lover over the hills. [11]
Only a few were burned,--enough to give no cover for Hamilton and his six hundred if they came. [9]
All Rostov's cards were beaten and he had eight hundred rubles scored up against him. [2]
In 1621 there were as many as ten thousand strangers in London, engaged in one hundred and twenty-one different trades. [4]

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