He had achieved absolute mastery of form, and could condense into a couplet some truth which Crabbe expanded, often excellently, in a hundred lines of very unequal workmanship.
The gradual steps by which the village beauty is led to her ruin are told in a hundred lines with a fidelity not surpassed in the case of the story of Hetty Sorrel.
It is true he runs into a flat of thoughts, sometimes for a hundred lines together, but it is when he has got into a track of Scripture.
Milton running on a flat of thought for a hundred lines together on a track of Scripture!
The usual penalty for forgetting a book was a hundred lines.
After about a quarter of an hour: "Caruthers, will you take six, or a hundred lines?
Next boy who sneezes I shall give a hundred lines to, and report him to the Headmaster.
You will write a hundred lines of Vergil," he said, "and if you are late again to-morrow I shall double them.
Mr. Forman, the master of his new form, set him a hundred lines of Virgil, and told him to show them up next day.
But If any one prefer's the ordinary Method, I must tell him, that 'tis not proper to draw Characters in a Piece of an hundred Lines.
The Truth is, we are commonly past a hundred Lines, the length of these Pieces, before the Mind and Attention is entirely fix'd, and has lost all its former and external Thoughts.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hundred lines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
