Dictionary Entry
A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
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Poetry examples for “hundred”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →To charm the mistress, or to fix the friend.
He, with a hundred arts refined,
Shall stretch thy conquests over half the kind;
Read full poem →This the blue varnish, that the green endears,
The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years!
To gain Pescennius one employs his schemes,
Read full poem →On the broad base of fifty thousand rise,
Add one round hundred, and (if that's not fair)
Add fifty more, and bring it to a square.
Read full poem →This the blue varnish, that the green endears,
The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years!
To gain Pescennius one employs his schemes,
Read full poem →They lost their weeks ; they vext the souls of deans ‘
They rode ; they betted ; made a hundred friends,
And caught the blossoms of the flying terms,
Read full poem →T'rom skirt to skirt ; and at the last he sware
That he would send a hundred thousand men,
And bring her in a whirlwind: then he chew’d
Read full poem →Proclaiming, “‘Here is Uther’s heir, your king,”
A hundred voices cried, “Away with him!
Read full poem →Is it peace or war? better, war! loud war by land and by sea,
War with a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones.
Read full poem →Eight hundred years and twenty-one
Have shone and sunken since the land