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Example sentences for "hundred men"

  • Meantime, the Good Knight, not suspecting that his plan was betrayed, had taken a hundred men-at-arms and gone to a little village called San Martino about six miles from Verona.

  • He was received with the greatest honour by the King, who bestowed on him the famous order of St. Michael and the command of a hundred men-at-arms.

  • Had Morgan known that there were only a hundred men behind it when he attacked its advanced barricade he might have pressed on at all costs and carried it by assault.

  • Carleton pointed out that a hundred men of the Canadian seigneurial families were being kept on full pay in France, ready to return and raise the Canadians at the first opportunity.

  • But it was at first defended by only a hundred men.

  • It would be curious to get the answers of a hundred men and a hundred women, of a hundred young people and a hundred old ones, of a hundred scholars and a hundred operatives.

  • A commercial smash kills a hundred men's houses for them, as a railroad crash kills their mortal frames and drives out the immortal tenants.

  • You send a hundred men away, and thirty get there.

  • He said that Murat was spending the night less than a mile from where they were, and that if they would let him have a convoy of a hundred men he would capture him alive.

  • He was appointed at the head of a hundred men to go and examine a more commodious place for encampment, as he had very candidly assured the commanders, that their present situation was wrong.

  • A cohort was formed by taking a manipulus from each of the battalions; more frequently two manipuli were taken, and the cohort then contained six hundred men.

  • In a few cases, only, were companies to keep intact as, although a hundred men would be ample for the duty at the large villages, two hundred would not be too much in a town like Leiria.

  • The little army altogether, may have numbered a hundred men, which, in his vainglory, Gian Maria accounted all that would be needed to reduce Roccaleone.

  • To do so, they made six lochi, or divisions of a hundred men apiece, each of which had its own set of captains and under-officers in command of half and quarter companies.

  • The several divisions fell into position, the companies were formed into columns, and the result was a total of something like eighty companies of heavy infantry, each company consisting on an average of a hundred men.

  • One man's one man, and a hundred men's a hundred one men.

  • After the loss of Fort Granville the Governor of the province sent him with three hundred men to attack the Delaware town of Kittanning, a populous nest of savages on the Alleghany, between the two French posts of Duquesne and Venango.

  • Vaudreuil says that there were fifteen hundred men in garrison at Quebec who did not take part in the battle.

  • One of them says that Villiers had four hundred men.

  • With infinite difficulty that brave officer induced a hundred men to follow him; but he was soon disabled by a wound, and they all faced about.

  • Therefore I left Doulut's service, and have entered that of the young Peishwa who, at the advice of Nana Furnuwees, has given me the command of a troop of a hundred men.

  • I will send a hundred men down, to help the women to extinguish them;" and he himself descended, an officer following, with the men.

  • His orders were that, if the enemy came on too strongly, he was to issue out with a hundred men, and aid the party to beat back their assailants.

  • And Peredur having overthrown the three hundred men of her household, sat down beside her, and the Countess said, "I thank Heaven that I have a youth so fair and so valiant as thou, since I have not obtained the man whom best I love.

  • And Madawc took counsel with the men of Powys, and they determined to place an hundred men in each of the three Commots of Powys to seek for him.

  • It is not worth the sacrifice of a hundred men.

  • In this engagement the Federals lost two hundred men, killed, wounded, and missing.

  • After crossing the Cumberland, he halted, gathered his scattered command together, and then with less than three hundred men, started for Glasgow.

  • Lord Kenmure took with him three hundred men to the field.

  • Such a sword and target," he would say to a listener, "your honest grandfather wore that day, and with it he forced his way through a hundred men.

  • These whiskey dives and faro joints get them the minute they are paid, and for ten days after pay-day we can't get a hundred men back to camp.

  • Relief train," he wired, "now making up with a hundred men.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    considerable increase; hundred acres; hundred and fifty miles; hundred and fifty thousand; hundred and thirty years; hundred and twenty thousand; hundred cubits; hundred dirhems; hundred eyes; hundred florins; hundred francs; hundred guineas; hundred gulden; hundred lashes; hundred men; hundred million; hundred people; hundred pound; hundred talents; hundred years; hundredth part; parce que; pioneer life; return them; without doubt; wrong side