But thisthis mowing-machine of his'twas a crawling nest of steel springs and hooks and apparatus, and hundreds of screwsInger's sewing-machine was a bookmarker compared with this!

Of our trials, one hundred and twenty-seven were successes on the first attempt, fifty-six on the second, nineteen on the thirdMAKING TWO HUNDRED AND TWO, OUT OF A POSSIBLE THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-TWO!"

Hundreds of girls throughout our country who might have been good housekeepers, are to-day useless invalids, made so by what is called "higher education."

SEVENTEEN HUNDRED, as I was informed, are legal voters.

The village included perhaps four hundred souls, of whom about a hundred were warriors.

Hundreds of men with fever, dysentery, and cholera (the wounded were the smaller portion) filled the wards in succession from the overcrowded transports.

As appears from the confessions of prisoners, they had twenty-two hundred men, of whom four hundred were cavalry, the rest being infantry, armed with shot-guns, American rifles, and revolvers.

Hundreds of years since, where this villa now stands was the simple dwelling of the two women whose history we have begun to tell you.

" "Five hundred would be a high price," observed Lyon, dryly.

"The practice varies as to the number to a herd, but my judgment is that a hundred is a moderate number: some make it more, say 150: some feed two herds together, and some do even more than that.

Chorus: Hawk, hawk, hawk, &c. The hawker’s gay for half the day, While others work he’s spelling, Though he may stay upon the way, His purse is always swelling; With work his back is never bent His hardest toil is talking; Three hundred is the rate per cent.

A hundred wouldn't be many standing in a corner of that place!

To-morrow the hundred would be a thousand.

Hundreds and hundreds of teachers in every part of our country, there is no doubt, have all these crowding upon them from morning to night, with no cessation, except perhaps some accidental and momentary respite.

It is unmilitary and contrary to regulations; and, then, hundreds are not as plenty with Lyon and myself as they are with you.

Hundreds of them," was the invariable assurance.

If only two hundred become criminals, while one hundred commit suicide, one hundred end as maniacs, and the other six hundred remain honest in their social condition, then poverty alone is not sufficient to explain criminality.

Boswell was a fool, but only in the sense in which hundreds of great artists have been fools; on his own lines, and across his own bit of country, he was no fool.

The rent of the Charlestown house was seven hundred dollars a year, and the last words of his mother had been to the effect that two hundred was the limit he must offer for the yellow house, as she did not see clearly at the moment how they could afford even that sum.

In this instance, we were quite content to skip to the opening of the nineteenth century when Fleur de Hundred became the property of John V. Willcox, in whose descendants it has ever since remained.

From some spies employed by the rajah of Cochin, it was understood that this caymal had a force of three thousand nayres, seven hundred of whom were archers, and forty were, armed with matchlocks; besides which all their towns were well fortified with trenches.

As I have said, nearly four hundred of them were country lawyers, as conceited as they were inexperienced.

Indeed, the minute subdivision of local administration has been carried to extreme lengths in New Zealand, where the hundreds of petty local bodies, each with its functions, officers, and circle of friends and enemies, are so many stumbling-blocks to thoroughgoing amalgamation and rearrangement.

Twenty-five hundred a year is a liberal piece of money where people raise their own vegetables, but to a man traveling in the West it is about equal to "no pair."

It is a country of 650,000 inhabitants of whom not even one hundred are French, a country which has been German for a thousand years, and which was temporarily occupied by France for purely military reasons.