My ancestors had lived there for generations; in fact, for more than two hundred years. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He shouted at the hundred mounted men: “There will be great suffering in Guilder if she dies!” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Two hundred years ago, there was a storm.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Mr. da Silva leaves and returns with a store-credit check in the amount of two hundred dollars. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Chrome and turquoise, it had fenders as wide as a Chevrolet’s, tires as thick as a wheelbarrow’s, and appeared to weigh at least a hundred pounds. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But as soon as they were in the middle of the ford it turned upstream and waded till they were about a hundred yards further inland than the cottage. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

As the music came closer, I could hear — and feel — the rumbling of hundreds of marching feet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His caution said to him, “Just go in and tell her and get your five hundred.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’ll have to split the profits with X-Ray. When we sell all the tickets I’ll make a profit of four hundred and thirty-five dollars.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

And then, just as she reached a hundred and ninety-eight, Joseph Ryan appeared at her elbow, like a waiter. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In one week he was the bemused owner of a cone five hundred feet high. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Finally the British came upon Lexington Common and the two sides met face-to-face: several hundred British soldiers confronting less than a hundred militia. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will pay five hundred pieces of gold for my desires,” said the big-shouldered noble. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes defenders have well over one hundred clients at a time; many of these clients are facing decades behind bars or life imprisonment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I phoned her not long after it began, when the rapping against our windows got so bad I thought for certain those hundreds of tiny collisions would break the glass. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

For instance, in 1975 I was crowned Little Miss Central Florida Tire and received a check for one thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Today the most numerous Native American tribe in the United States is the Navajo, who on European arrival were just one of several hundred tribes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That was the scariest thing I’ve done since...well, since last night, when I did about five hundred scary things I never thought I’d do.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

For five years he had been working a certain river, and had examined hundreds of thousands of stones looking for an emerald. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made a very impressive racket, clattering on the hard deck and rolling in a hundred directions. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Baltimore Gas and Electric demolished three hundred homes to make room for a new power plant, leaving more than 1,300 homeless, most of them black. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

By the end of the month, I'd managed to retain three hundred nouns, none of which proved to be the least bit useful. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Not just a little. Twenty times better! A hundred!” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the road darkened, the beams of our headlights filled with hundreds of blinded moths. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the County Road, she speeds up to fifteen and grips the wheel like we’re doing a hundred and five. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

If I knew I would be here talking about it at one hundred and one, I would have taken the monthly check. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Americans finally heard the VC and detonated the mines, hundreds of small steel balls exploded back at them, tearing into their flesh. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Something that is all, one hundred percent, mine. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

How could they drag their bodies over a hundred miles, even to plenty? The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“This war only gonna last about three more days. We got us a body count of four hundred and thirty-three Congs in the last fight.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight, about a hundred people are watching me in seconds. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

TJ’s so thin, he could eat a hundred biscuits and not gain a single pound. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He was distilling azoth, as he had done hundreds of times before. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was woven of forget-me-nots, real ones, hundreds of fresh blooms sewn to a heavy woolen cape. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was relieved not to have to pay fifteen hundred. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Dane, fully flesh and blood, but one hundred percent of nothing. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The only reason I wasn't a hundred percent sure is because he didn't have on no gold or diamonds. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Says here,” Lara continues, squinting at her phone, “that boogeypeople date back seven hundred years to the war with the Night Brothers.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It had been exactly one hundred days since Fred Gray had filed papers to start this lawsuit, and they had been one hundred hard days of walking and doing without and praying. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Cloud Pond was a couple of hundred acres of exquisitely peaceful water surrounded by dark coniferous forest, the treetops pointy black silhouettes against a pale blue evening sky. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Red Cross parcels come on the last Friday of the month, and there’ll be a meeting of the escape committee at nineteen hundred hours this evening. I think that’s about all you need to know.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I thought to look at all the children, the many colors of them, listen to the shouting music of their mixed-up voice, inflections of a hundred home languages. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, I was shooting my fourth set of one hundred shots and I was really in the groove. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But don’t worry, Ms. Yen. I’m willing to negotiate for their release. I’ll rent Fred back to you for three hundred thousand dollars! Cash!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Even if it was only a little off course, with that speed and time Brian might now be sitting several hundred miles off to the side of the recorded flight plan. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The moral of the story is that things are a mess in here. We effectively ‘lost’ almost two hundred thousand books when Tolem burned the Larkin ledgers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“One hundred and forty-six people, exactly the number of Monitors on each ship, is all it takes for humans to continue with enough genetic diversity in case the rest of us die.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was at the Second Decennial Review Conference on Cell Tissue and Organ Culture with more than seven hundred other scientists. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had grown no taller, but he looked a hundred years old. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Well I was. And now I’m not sure, not a hundred per cent sure I’ll be completely, you know, in shape by 1944. So I’m going to coach you for them instead.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she declares that she can walk no farther, her father carries her off the road, traveling uphill through mustard flowers until they reach a field a few hundred yards from a small farmhouse. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I’ll pass you across the river. Give me two hundred pesos,” they say to the unwary; then they take their clients to the riverbank and assault them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I make a note to myself to be sad, and even mad, but not one hundred percent angry at the world. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

That morning, my brothers and I peered out the gate as hundreds of people filed past our house on their way to the rally. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Any one of these dresses would cost hundreds of pounds,” said Polly. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got a new arrival. This is Ruby, folks. Six hundred pounds of fun to save our sorry butts. This gal is gonna sell us some tickets.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Literally hundreds of aphids are consumed by a single ladybug to stoke the little fires of energy which she requires to produce even a single batch of eggs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Overlooking the entire city was a watchman in the cupola of the Courthouse, one hundred feet above the ground. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Papin was well aware of this: he proposed to the Royal Society a ship of eighty tons, perhaps 100 feet long, costing ‘but four hundred pounds’ to build. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But in a conflict of hundreds, Neanderthals wouldn’t stand a chance. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was about a hundred yards away, having finally come to a stop after glancing off the Saturn and then righting himself down the road, his truck virtually unharmed. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: Would you jump out of that plane with an umbrella for a hundred million dollars? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there wouldn’t of been more joy on his face if he’d just won a fist fight or made a hundred dollars on a land deal. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Only a few hundred people lived in Brooklyn, and most had fled. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

At age forty, approximately one woman in a thousand develops breast cancer each year, whereas at age sixty the rate has risen to one in five hundred. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could have been twenty miles off the Brooklyn coast for all we knew, or twenty from Boston, or two hundred from nowhere. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

While William Faulkner sweated in California trying to imagine what their lives must be like, hundreds of young airwomen were flying and fighting and dying over the battlefields of the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was here the men had stood; here upon this Green they had formed a thin pathetic fine, a handful of farmers to resist the march of seven hundred British regulars. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Richards a few feet away, happily fielding his invitation to the Santa Anita Turf Club Ball, the traditional party held to honor hundred- grander winners, Pollard was bombarded with harsh questions. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conies had hundreds of buries under these trees, so close together that the problem was not to find a rabbit, but to find a rabbit far enough away from its hole. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Church records placed membership numbers over eight hundred before the bombing; after the bombing, that number shrank by 50 percent. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ninety or a hundred people were ahead of us. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He had hardly gone a hundred feet before he was back. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

After reading twelve pages, she looked to the end to see how many more pages there were to go: more than two hundred. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hardly breathe for the smell of incense and the mustard oil burning in the hundreds of little lamps. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

To gain a foothold against the disease could cost hundreds of millions, they estimated. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I watched breathlessly as it came to an ancient oak tree, a hundred years old and massive as a greystone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some guy drew it a hundred years ago, and people have been forcing kids to memorize it ever since. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The first day is used to whittle down two hundred fencers to forty-eight. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They will imprison the Jews; they will execute several hundred thousand of them at least.... Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t a hundred percent sure we’d invited her this time. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

As Stutman recounted years later: The agents would hear me give hundreds of presentations to the media as I attempted to call attention to the drug scourge. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“No, it’s not. Cockroaches have been around, like, three hundred and fifty million years, and people haven’t even been here six,” said Gregor. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The broad spray of fire was advancing up the road at two hundred miles an hour, a rattling hailstorm din of cannon rounds hitting metal and glass. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The amount of iridium in the Alvarez sample was more than three hundred times normal levels–far beyond anything they might have predicted. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Interesting" was Walter's euphemism for odd people, and having worked for hundreds of people throughout the county over the years, he'd encountered no shortage of “interesting" people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I fixed my eyes ahead on the long, straight road, which cut through hundreds of green fields that stretched for miles on either side. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

There must be—Inigo did a quick count—at least a hundred men standing at the ready. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, there you are, you gotta weigh two hundred pounds, and you got a rifle, and you’re against a squirrel that weighs maybe two or three pounds, and he ain’t got nothing.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We picked up hundreds of students from other schools and then headed for the stadium. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went to the one hundred fortieth floor, where the spirit medium’s secretary made them all comfortable with cups of tea. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

During the terror era there were hundreds of ways in which people of color could commit a social transgression or offend someone that might cost them their lives. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Burning mattresses and dressers were scooped up by the furious gale and hurled hundreds of feet. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever bow they carried, all of Balaq’s men were sharp-eyed, seasoned veterans who had proved their worth in a hundred battles, raids, and skirmishes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sound of a hundred heads hissing at once sent a shiver down my back, and that was before his breath hit me. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

"Old Lord Crow, him with the talking bird, he gave Craster a crossbow worth a hundred rabbits." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In three months the British suffered three hundred thousand casualties. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tucked in the middle of the forest are three training gyms, a dance studio, medical facilities, dining and recreational spaces, and cabins that can sleep up to three hundred athletes and coaches at a time. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There were so many girls to choose from, every conceivable nationality, that a kid would have to gallop three hundred horses to afford them all. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Workers had already laid pipes in Jackson Park for two hundred springwater booths. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I thought, My grandfather’s house is six hundred years old and made of stone. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Charged with picketing for better hours and working conditions at a cotton mill in Newnan, Georgia, sixteen women and one hundred and twelve men were imprisoned. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“I have a fever of a hundred and four.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Matney weighed it carefully—more than four hundred pounds!—and then counted out the twenty-two dollars and fifty cents he figured he owed us. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They have even left behind people making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In 1961, when Kennedy had taken office, there were seven hundred American military advisors in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Country Joe was shocked by the size of the audience; several hundred thousand people covered the hills as far as he could see, and thousands more were still pouring in. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The village of Bree had some hundred stone houses of the Big Folk, mostly above the Road, nestling on the hillside with windows looking west. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I stroked her fleece and felt her chest a hundred times, to see if she was breathing. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

In the evening, the warm glow of the lights made passersby feel that this street might have looked the same one hundred years earlier. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

About four hundred pilots were stuck in horrific North Vietnamese prison camps. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Suppose they got two or three hundred for the old Chevrolet. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’ll be on it for forty-two of its nearly three hundred miles. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was a small force, barely two hundred demigods, but they were well trained and well organized. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

By century’s turn over three hundred Japanese had arrived on San Piedro, most of them schooner hands who jumped ship in Port Jefferson Harbor in order to remain in the United States. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Gregor imagined the bottleneck a hundred bats would cause trying to get in the door downstairs. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Several hundred years later it reached the upper Xingu, a long Amazon tributary with its headwaters deep in southern Brazil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A woman leaves him her entire library of several hundred books when she moves. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew well that every hotel within two hundred miles would be booked already. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The indictment charged eleven of us with complicity in over two hundred acts of sabotage aimed at facilitating violent revolution and an armed invasion of the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Torchlight glimmered behind windows of leaded glass in the Lord of Harmony’s wooden hall, showing half a hundred kinds of butterflies in all their bright colors. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But why should God leave a huge empty space, at least hundreds of times bigger than the gaps between the planets, between the outermost planet and the stars? The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Beyond it, Harry could just make out the ghostly shapes of hundreds and hundreds of tents, rising up the gentle slope of a large field toward a dark wood on the horizon. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There are simply hundreds of disheveled men staring in bafflement at the pitched tents of another circus. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In fact, that has been used for people as well as animals and inanimate things for some eight hundred years, and it’s standard English. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not worth the risk? There’s a hundred pounds worth of stuff in that wagon.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of 1919, so many black families had fled that the area’s black population had dropped from eleven hundred to thirty. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hundred and sixteen rings, and I still haven’t figured them out. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He had warned his own family against doing that hundreds of times. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The roads are packed with Dauntless soldiers, all marching at the same rhythm except the officers, who stand every few hundred yards, watching us walk by, or gathering in clusters to discuss something. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

In the first year, the women collected more than one hundred thousand signatures. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

N could be two for some women, two hundred for others. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After two hundred years of trying, the Earth finally had an age. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Only hundreds of years later were they finally written down. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Within a year, one hundred thousand people had been killed. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The ship was hundreds of miles off course, heading toward an impossible challenge. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They had both hoped for a baby, and they were thrilled, but pregnancy was dangerous in the nineteenth century About one in every two hundred women died in childbirth. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tendrils of vast gossamer gas clouds formed, colonies of great lumbering, slowly spinning things, steadily brightening, each a kind of beast eventually to contain a hundred billion shining points. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vicar was a hundred yards off at least, walking quickly away across the common with arms swinging freely. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe my life would fall into place if I could shed a hundred pounds. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

If anyone had told her a hundred years ago that humans would be taking the fertile out of fertilizer, she would have told them to get some air holes drilled in their skull. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

In mid-July, one hundred thousand irate Soviet citizens, inflamed by the government-controlled press, besieged the American embassy on Tchaikovsky Street, demanding that the United States withdraw its troops from Lebanon. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So Lord Asriel had found conditions on Svalbard no better and no worse than hundreds of other exiles had done. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I spoke across a vast gym floor to six hundred and fifty sixth, seventh, and eighth graders arrayed in bleachers before me. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I now have four hundred healthy potato plants, each one making lots of calorie-filled taters for my dining enjoyment. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reckoned I must have covered two, three miles, but once me and Pa got walking toward the road I saw I hadn’t gone no more than two, three hundred feet! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The Duke of Berry had lost a kingdom through the unpopularity which he earned by feeling sorry for eight hundred foot soldiers who had been killed in a battle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where once a mighty curtain wall had stood, only scattered stones remained, blocks of black basalt so large it must once have taken a hundred men to hoist them into place. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By Pearl Harbor Day there were eight hundred and forty-three people of Japanese descent living there, including twelve seniors at Amity Harbor High School who did not graduate that spring. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He dialed her number in New Chicago, one hundred miles over the dead sea. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hit the floor and give me a hundred push-ups,” the recruiter says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Just a few weeks ago two men offered my son, Eric, a couple of hundred dollars to locate a sharp- shinned hawk nest for them.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time, the master quarryman was sent to supervise fifty apprentice stone cutters and two hundred and fifty laborers who would work in the Somme valley, an area known for its limestone. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

Each part had 25 points to add up to a hundred and I needed 16.25 out of each part. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Institute’s tidal turbines were considered the best in the entire world; they were also capable of producing enough energy to power a hundred Institutes, let alone one. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine how gorgeous this must have been hundreds of years ago, when it was new?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“The largest number in any dwelling in Britain, I believe. Over a hundred.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Somebody had released a hundred pachinko balls in his chest. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the Qur’an, Gabriel is described as having six hundred wings, and is assumed to have accompanied Muhammad when he ascended to the heavens. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In preparation for the fair, he ordered two hundred barrels of whiskey, to be used by his office in the entertainment of dignitaries. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Maybe billions. You can keep them here forever. Fifty years, a hundred years, even more —then you just thaw them out and they grow.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Tonight marks the two hundred and fifth Black Moon Ceremony in the town of Ravenskill,” the Gran began to say. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Seventy-seven million, five hundred thirty-seven thousand, four hundred twelve,” Luke reminded us. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The splinters took to the wind and scattered for hundreds of miles. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

They also destroyed some seven hundred Jewish homes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A hundred years ago, the white ethnics hated being hated, but it was sort of tolerable because at least black people were below them on the ladder. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I do not claim Lord Wyman does the deeds himself. He brought three hundred men with him. A hundred knights. Any of them might have—” “Night work is not knight’s work,” Lady Dustin said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’d helped pass a law, spoken at numerous events, put himself out in front of three hundred people in Washington, D.C., at the conference organized by Secretary LaHood. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Read all about it! Titanic survivors in New York! More than fifteen hundred people dead! Read all about it!” I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had a blue coat and a long brown beard; his eyes were blue and bright, and his face was red as a ripe apple, but creased into a hundred wrinkles of laughter. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Other major parts rained down hundreds of miles east of Perth. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The bell in the ceiling kicked itself two hundred times. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe as much as a hundred, depending on how refined it was. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On the evening of March 31, 2003, about a hundred and twenty Clarkston residents filed into an auditorium at Georgia Perimeter College and began to write their questions on index cards. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

A hundred hands held her, released her, brought her close, sent her spinning away. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A hundred quays lined the waterfront, and the harbor was crowded with ships. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Our folks were wandering around the hotel somewhere and I was halfway through my last hundred shots when Annie started waving her hands around like crazy. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But their parents insist on inviting close to three hundred people, and serving Indian food, and providing easy parking for all the guests. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She bought plants called philodendrons from a Japanese man who had one hundred thousand plants in his nursery. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They went to a town that was hundreds of miles away, arriving around lunchtime. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And he’s lived there ever since, with two deep freezes packed with food to last him one hundred years, and enough cigars to last ten thousand days, and a good bed with a soft mattress. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a hundred yards from Regents Park, where he and Emma could go walking together. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you make a one hundred percent foolproof app that helps people find their soul mate?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

We kept going as a hundred tons of marble crashed down behind us. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

With the tobacco ration at a hundred grams a week it was seldom possible to fill a pipe up to the top. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The distance in form, intention, mood and expression between Schubert’s songs for voice and piano and those of, say, Adele is remarkably short, considering they are separated by two hundred years. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

By now it felt like that had happened a hundred years ago. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

We have hundreds of hours of footage of Penny being cute and doing adorable things. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

A hundred of his own Highgarden men had been added to the gold cloaks, yet plainly his lordship meant to resist any balancing infusion of westermen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Look, whatever the old guys are paying you, I can pay you double. Treble. A hundred times. Whatever they’re giving you, I can give you so much more.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

More than a hundred years later Galileo still needed, when writing in Latin, to use convoluted phrases such as ‘unknown to all astronomers before me’ to convey it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"How about you get through the next few days before worrying about the next hundred years." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In fact, since it was first installed at a cost of two hundred and thirty-six dollars to the Milagro exchequer, that parking meter had received only fourteen dimes, eight nickels, and eleven pennies. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are Edith Cavell’s, the British nurse who smuggled two hundred Allied soldiers out of Belgium in The Last Lot, the 1914—1918 war, and who was caught and shot for treason. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The rest had left eight days past, six hundred men from Winterfell and the nearest holdfasts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be hundreds of twistings and turnings, and many other pipes that opened off the main route, but Tucker Mouse knew his way perfectly— even in the dark. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom smiles this cruel smile, saying, “Did you know, a hundred years ago, parents just kicked their kids out on the street? They had to fend for themselves. Like ‘Hansel and Gretel.’ Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

One day more than a hundred people came to stand at his yard and admire him. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a shop, really, just a shed in the back of the blacksmith’s house, with a dirt floor and blackened walls hung with hooks and tongs and hundreds of locks and keys. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“First it was a farm. And then a warehouse for goods being shipped down the river. A school wasn’t built until the early nineteen hundreds.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Only, about a hundred yards away from the Wart, there was suddenly a Mack creature standing on the edge of the clearing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We turn our attention to Captain Smith with a hundred questions. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

As a result of the raid, more than four hundred other youth groups—mostly political and religious groups—vanished. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I lie on the narrow cot, sober as I’ve been in what feels like a hundred years. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our tiny camp, a hundred feet above the tents of the other expeditions, was a spectacularly exposed perch. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The elm was probably a hundred years old, very big, and didn’t give a millimeter when the man plowed into it facefirst. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

There must have been about a hundred of us because we filled two long orange buses. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they reached the bow of the ship, the figurehead turned a hundred and eighty degrees to look at them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Pushing about a hundred yards north, Snuffy discovered the trail into the gorge he had known would be there, a narrow descent to the river bank where two small hot springs were located. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadow stared, impressed in spite of himself, at the hundreds of full-sized creatures who circled on the platform of the carousel. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But whenever they weren’t under direct orders to do something, the children sank heavily into chairs, stared listlessly out locked windows, paged through dog-eared books they’d read a hundred times before, or slept. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The prices ranged from seventy-five to a hundred and ten dollars. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Of all the many hundreds of kids in the train station this morning, my friends and I were the only ones arriving. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She had a hundred questions, but as usual, Kaz was keeping a stranglehold on the answers. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“So how come you didn’t go to one of a hundred normal bars to dance and drink, then?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I told Mr. Muhammad, “Sir, I agree with you, and I submit, one hundred per cent.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house was timeless, graceful, and probably a hundred years old. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There are five hundred base people already living in Ro Leap. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nearly two hundred sixth graders poured into the library, and the teachers shouted out directions: “Blue group sits here.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, three hundred meters into the air. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Even the hundreds of spectators didn’t bother him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Through the rising steam, he could see the beady eyes of all the monkeys glittering through the branches like hundreds of diamonds as they watched as well. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She could do anything: order me to the stocks, another branding, or a public whipping of hundreds of lashes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The view extended for perhaps fifty miles, but people said you would never again be able to see for a hundred miles. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was warm and old, as if the same air had been up here for hundreds of years. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside he glimpsed hundreds of women, children, and old men, huddled on the floor on piles of furs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I try to jump-start her by asking, “So did Vanessa dominate the four hundred?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

TimeStar said, “I’m really from twenty years in the future, Otto. Not two hundred. I’m you at the age of thirty-one.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, a hundred tears or one,” the woman said, obviously cross to have her account disputed, “when her tear fell on the wall, the part it touched just collapsed—as if crushed by her sorrow.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“What is a ball-player that bats two hundred and thirty? It’s awfully impressive.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I would have asked her more about it, but my mom and Mr. Stokely came back in the gym to watch me shoot my last set of one hundred. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred yards ahead, tied to the end of the longest dock, was a makeshift raft with a simple mast and a square canvas sail. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I know way more than a hundred people. How come I’ve never heard of it?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In Greece the tide was turning, although the Ionian tradition continued in Alexandrian Egypt two hundred years later. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are still considered outsiders by the tough Scotch-Irish who have farmed the rocks of the valley floor for nearly two hundred years. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine a time hundreds of thousands of years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Bifrost track was another stand-alone simulation, one of several hundred track designs stored on my console’s hard drive. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As I drove up in the minivan, I could see it was about ten feet deep and several hundred feet in diameter. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Bandits! I found this in the three hundreds room.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

There were only men and women with guns, hundreds of boxes of water and other supplies stacked in the hallways, and Zeitoun and his fellow prisoners. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“That’s a hundred and... sixteen days then. You gone tell him. A hundred and sixteen days from now.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"May there be a hundred more," he finished, raising his father's silver goblet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Four hundred men had been packed into an unheated and terribly overcrowded prison at Deer Island in Boston Harbor. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

These stood or leaned or reclined against the light and their green feathers were a hundred feet up in the air. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

‘It’s like — well, I wouldn’t like to say. Some beastly hole of the Orcs, I’ll warrant, with a hundred years of their filth in it.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Analogues of the geoglyphs to the north, they are typically five hundred feet across, though some are considerably larger. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And then he’d find a way to make another hundred, go another few miles. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He told me about living and working in buildings constructed hundreds of years before the United States was even founded. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Beneath it, the bell tower angled down to the clapboard front and granite steps, hewn a hundred years ago by the first congregation. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It consisted of no more than a few hundred people who lived in huts, which were beehive-shaped structures of mud walls, with a wooden pole in the center holding up a peaked, grass roof. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I plan to live to be a hundred,” she stated. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Twenty percent of Kerala’s population were Syrian Christians, who believed that they were descendants of the one hundred Brahmins whom St. Thomas the Apostle converted to Christianity when he traveled East after the Resurrection. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I even promised that if I could grow just a tiny bit taller—even an inch—I would offer a hundred raakat nafl, extra prayers on top of my daily ones. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And on a national basis, I had either directly established, or I had helped to establish, most of the one hundred or more mosques in the fifty states. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not very impressive compared to Gibraltar, but in front of the island, jutting from waves about a hundred yards offshore, were two white Grecian columns as tall as the Argo's masts. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My lungs ached from exertion after the first two hundred meters, but I forced myself to push on. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I drove directly to the grocery store and cashed a check for three hundred dollars, which was half of my savings. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

During the Ice Ages, so much of the oceans’ water was locked up in glaciers that worldwide sea levels dropped hundreds of feet below their present stand. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Is one hundred and four dollars enough to win? wondered Jessie. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

She couldn't sing for him now, here, with the sky a swirl with fire and men dying in their hundreds and their thousands. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was no way Evan had earned a hundred dollars in just three days of selling lemonade. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Schoenberg was so sure his new dodecaphonic system would take off that he declared triumphantly, ‘I have made a discovery which will ensure the supremacy of German music for the next hundred years.’ The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t have needed to stretch more than I did through those nine hundred miles—although Vonetta’s legs were growing longer. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She sold what she could, disappointed that she could get only seven hundred dollars for a house that was worth twice as much. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One or two hundred people in a day. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Berg was ascending, now at least two hundred feet off the ground, and moving forward, heading for the trees. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There had been a large bonfire with hundreds of animals and one robot. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The telephone rang a hundred times downstairs, and I heard my mother’s voice talking to folks all over the countryside. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The teachers freak out and start being mean to the kids, like six hundred of us got together to hold the paintbrush. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

There were more than a hundred pages, many of them crumpled, folded, or torn, all of them out of order. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There were more than a hundred of them, all armed to the teeth. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Wesley’s Methodism spread like wildfire through England and America because Wesley was shuttling back and forth among hundreds and hundreds of groups, and each group was then taking his message and making it even stickier. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Computer: “You crawl for one hundred yards. The passage narrows.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“To imply the Cro-Magnon were lug heads is wrong. They exhibited a cranial capacity approximately sixteen hundred cubic centimeters larger than modern-day humans.’ Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes and stared at a hundred cuts of crystal sparkling overhead. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It had always seemed unfathomable to her, choosing a career where all you did was put yourself out in front of hundreds or thousands of people and risked rejection in real time. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, hundreds of the cherry-colored cattle were grazing the side of a hill. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Violet lived in a suburb that was a few hundred miles away from my suburb, so while we drove we had a little time to talk before we got to the party. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the fight, the man may need hundreds of stitches, and could be blinded. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nine hundred remaining acres were the core of the original Sanchez grant, and the best of it too. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

No scary movie, failed experiment, or broken cell phone came close to the fear now pumping my heart at a hundred thousand beats per minute. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

So far there have been two hundred dead and countless wounded; the hospitals are bursting at the seams. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

People had referred to my disability a hundred times. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When the tide went out, it went almost three hundred feet—about three-quarters of the way along the jetty at Wynnum. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

If it took us five units to travel three hundred and eighty years...? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But he’d tried a hundred times last night, and it never stuck. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

After about one hundred yards, she reached a small concrete platform. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“For half a mile along the splendid sweep of the Lake-Front men were massed a hundred deep,” the Tribune reported. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Blackwater USA, a private-security firm that employed former soldiers from the U.S. and elsewhere, had sent hundreds of personnel to the region. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They cocooned the frames in scaffolds of wood and faced each frame with hundreds of thousands of wooden planks to create walls capable of accepting two thick layers of staff. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"Sure I did. I was going to wear it tonight, but it was too big in the bust and had to be altered. It was gas blue with lavender beads. Two hundred and sixty-five dollars." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

They were also about five hundred dollars cheaper to build than real cattleguards. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cinna was up late working on organizing your garment car. He must have over a hundred outfits for you. Your evening clothes are exquisite. And Peeta’s team is probably still asleep.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were skimming along the edge of a bridge a hundred and thirty feet above the East River. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The children fought with sticks and stones, and mass chaos ensued, with hundreds of children wounded, and two white men stoned to death. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The incensed priest, a crowd of a hundred around him, demanded that they let the migrants go. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Once she had walked two hundred miles through two states before they caught her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t hydroplane unless it was going one hundred miles an hour. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Hot Pie yelled hot pie. He must have yelled it a hundred times." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They cost a hundred and ten dollars for a pack of thirty-six colors. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“That bird was a personal friend of Miss Wren’s. It was hundreds of years old. It was written about in the Tales. And now it’s dead.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Within, the stockade was cramped, some five hundred men gathered in a small and incommodious yard between tents. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

On Phinney Ridge, looming above Ballard, wood smoke curled up from the stovepipes and chimneys of hundreds of modest homes and dissolved into the mist overhead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She did individual searches for Book Scavenger players named Charlie, Sally, and Lucy, but there were hundreds of results. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In 1881, when he was sixteen, Rondon joined the army and earned a scholarship to the Military Academy in Rio de Janeiro, twelve hundred miles away from his home. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He had to walk about a hundred yards north to find the place where the trail went down between two big pinon trees. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Faced with the obvious folly of his original ambition, to walk five hundred miles to tidewater, he reconsidered his plans. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way other people refuse to date someone who plays in a band or someone whose geekiness is so strong they can name all of the original one hundred and fifty Pokémon. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Deviations in arc of a hundredth of a milli-second—invisible to the eye—were enough to send the beam wildly out of focus—enough to blast hundreds of square miles of Earth into incandescent ruin. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He’s seen me slice up demons and leap out of exploding school buildings, so he probably figured taking a car a few hundred yards wasn’t exacdy the most dangerous thing I’d ever done. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it’s also U for University School! What a brilliant place to hide something—around hundreds of kids!” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The water was very deep and often we had to let out two hundred feet of line before we touched bottom. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to him was someone else—a familiar giant, much taller than the Laistrygonians, with a hundred rippling arms, each holding a huge chunk of rock. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think I should stop till I get to a hundred. I can feel the sentences working. I think I need the whole punishment to make me stop spitting.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

They were fined a mere one hundred dollars each and sentenced to 180 days in jail. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“One hundred twenty-four thousand hotels rooms, actually. Sounds like a whole lot of people had the same idea.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

You could see hundreds, maybe thousands or even millions, twinkling in the clear desert sky. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We took our snow tube and June’s toboggan and switched off about a hundred times. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“All that—to find one error? And there are probably two hundred thousand figures in those tables. Maybe that’s why he didn’t check every figure, Mr. Bowditch.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a distance of a hundred yards, Ben saw her speaking to Karen and Matthew. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It could divide evenly among her hundred sentinels, or shift between them in any configuration, honing in where attention was required and receding where it wasn’t. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Rumors about the Yule Ball were flying everywhere, though Harry didn’t believe half of them — for instance, that Dumbledore had bought eight hundred barrels of mulled mead from Madam Rosmerta. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

One hundred Oompa-Loompas rested on their oars and stared up at the visitors. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

For a week now it’s been a hundred degrees and ninety-nine percent humidity. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Govinda looked attentively at the monk in the yellow cowl, who could not be distinguished in any way from the hundreds of other monks, and yet Govinda soon recognized him. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ella glanced at the downtown docks, only a few hundred yards away. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The true invasion of New York started with the Firing of a hundred ships’ cannons when we were at church Sunday morning. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though one hundred Negroes were killed in the process of putting down this revolt, Nat Turner could not be found. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since there are over six hundred students in the school, the overflow has to sit on folding chairs in the orchestra pit. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Two hundred miles and one pit stop later, safely removed from Kentucky, they were midway between Nashville and Memphis. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

At the base of that, the land rose hundreds of feet in jagged steps, as if chopped with a giant hoe. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Actually, you could help me out if you moved in with me. I mean, that way I could use the five hundred dollars’ rent you paid to me . The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom frowns—it makes her look a hundred years old. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She scored one hundred on her written test by answering “c” to the multiple-choice questions she wasn’t sure of or didn’t understand. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1963 alone, another fifteen thousand were imprisoned, and one thousand desegregation protests occurred across the region, in more than one hundred cities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was the power of nine hundred girls striving. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I could see the end of the street, but it looked as if it were a hundred miles away. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been with the Twenty-first Marines, dug in on a small hill just a hundred yards past my own foxhole. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were soon in combat again, and after a prolonged, bloody battle, Allen was ordered to guard a pile of several hundred dead NVA soldiers. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The two hundred or so patients are lined up on straw mats or cots on the floor, their cries echoing off the cold stone walls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost all of the three hundred chickens we’d processed Wednesday morning would be eaten within a few dozen miles of the farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

"Even if I knew, we wouldn't play. Figure if Aunt Cecile hit for three hundred, she must have lost about six hundred—as much as she plays and as little as she hits." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Over the years, over the subsequent deployments, I sent her hundreds of letters. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Ever since Galileo first peered at the moon through his telescope, nearly four hundred years ago, we had been gathering facts about its pock-marked surface. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the Delaware, it was a handy dumping ground for anything and everything—household and human waste, manufacturing rubbish, and debris from the hundreds of ships that visited the city every year. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The men’s locker room—I’ve never seen the women’s—is itself nearly abandoned; though it’s stuffed with a hodgepodge of some two hundred lockers of inmate manufacture, fewer than twenty are actively used. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newsome Park and the hundreds of neighborhoods like it around the country became increasingly volatile, desperate islands where housing, schooling, and every other state- supplied service were left to deteriorate. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

All up and down the coastline, female turtles come out of the ocean and paddle their way across the sand, dig a hole, and lay eggs—about a hundred at a time. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t seem like a girl who had been killed a hundred times. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You hit a bird going five hundred knots and it’s like being hit with a bowling ball. Do you remember when Rip Tuscum was killed in a plane crash about five years ago?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Xan was very good at making people feel better, having had five hundred years of practice. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

We could send out our science, of course, but just think of the wincing at this end when the polite comments arrive two hundred years from now. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

With me, it’s regular checkups, new filter every fifteen hundred miles, and new oil every three thousand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As word of the frost spread, hundreds of people swarmed into town. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the year’s end the family moved away, leaving an envelope containing three hundred rupees under Bibi’s door. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

All around him a hundred voices shouted, simultaneously trying to explain what had caused this mayhem, and Victor realized that the girl had gone. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred sixty million years ago, Antarctica was part of the supercontinent Gondwana, which also included South America, Africa, and Australia. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

In fact, it was the same foot fungus that a hundred and ten years later would afflict the famous ballplayer Clyde Livingston. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

And yet, if a bomb had fallen on the blocks, it would have claimed hundreds of inmates’ lives. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred times before, Johnny had stopped on the streets of Boston, or before her house, to watch her: he but one more gaping face in a crowd, she the accepted reigning belle. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, playing for higher stakes than he could afford in some rather steep bridge games with his New York connections, he had held cards and won several hundred dollars. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

One hundred and fifty yards and they were stuck twice. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I turned my e-mail program on, I faced hundreds of messages from kids, students, former students, parents, and teachers stacked in vast queues; it took hours just to download the mail. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A single lawyer,” Nazario continued, “can steal more money than a hundred men with guns.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“We piled them up like they were logs, over two hundred, arms and legs sticking out. And we piled brush on top and poured coal oil on.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We have abundant evidence from the garbage that they left behind at hundreds of thousands of excavated archaeological sites and huge shell mounds distributed all over Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The system of extended-family clans, of Hearths and Domains, though still vaguely discernible in the Commensal structure, was “nationalized” several hundred years ago in Orgoreyn. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He moved slowly and hunched over the cauldron like he was a hundred years old. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Techniques the doctors had pioneered on me would later be used to help hundreds of other patients around Australia and the world. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

My all-time record was five wins and one hundred and twelve losses. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He tells me to shoot until I can make one hundred baskets in a row, which seems impossible. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred yards out, a shimmering white figure floated on the water. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“A hundred men it will be. Every Brute available.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

If I’d had the money, I could have raised five hundred dollars or more, and he’d have had to call me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Return next Saturday, three o'clock, I tell you more reasons why your poems fail. Or do not return. An hundred other works are waiting.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

If we multiply by a hundred thousand our sense of loss for this work of Aristarchus, we begin to appreciate the grandeur of the achievement of classical civilization and the tragedy of its destruction. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We trekked all over Mica, past hundreds of grassless stone-and-cactus front yards, through the Tudorized shopping center, skirting the electronics business park around which the city had' been invented a mere fifteen years before. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He went to one of the abandoned Nazi warehouses and brought back hundreds of bolts of navy-blue cloth and hundreds of bottles of vodka. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

They lay up to five hundred eggs at a time and bury them. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The bloody flux is everywhere. A hundred die each night.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’d gained nearly seven hundred feet of altitude since stepping off the hanging glacier, all of it on crampon front points and the picks of my axes. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In eighth grade I read several hundred books, the tides of which I still can recall. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say that because, based on current quotas, a person’s chance of being gleaned within the next one hundred years is only 1 percent. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“If you pay five hundred ice creams you can come out of jail?” he asked. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I think this: If I could do nothing else for the next one hundred hours, I would be happy. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I watch the whole thing in motion—everybody busy; hundreds of kids banding together, working side by side to accomplish a single, worthwhile goal. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

There were hundreds of them to choose from. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred dead things in jars are all looking at me, not to mention the skeleton. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

No kid could earn a hundred dollars in just five days by selling lemonade. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

"The Globe's audience is customarily between five hundred and one thousand. Do you suppose they can watch over every member of it?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred kinds of mushrooms grew down here. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I went to work for a man in the suburbs today. He paid me a hundred dollars.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was a quilted jacket made of hundreds of different-colored patches. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Around the hall were broad grassy horse yards fenced with high hedges, firepits, and hundreds of round earthen houses that bulged from the ground like miniature hills, covered with grass. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Yesterday we passed four hundred thousand, but the number has to be even higher than that now. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

There were at least one hundred other Navajo Marines in World War Two. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything looked like it was a hundred years old and hardly ever repaired. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Inside, it disintegrates and gives rise to a wormlike creature, which then develops into the new Phoenix, ready for the next five hundred years. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s two hundred rupees, for you to buy something for yourself.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t about to throw a rock at this guy; he was at least eight hundred pounds and taller than me and would probably take the extra time while killing me to insert the rock... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Hence, he spent most of his time reading in his dismal room, wishing he could play his guitar, walking the three hundred yards to town for groceries—and somehow he just couldn’t begin. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am now more than live hundred miles away, and everything appears to me different from what it was when I was with you last on San Piedro. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The guest has to be smart enough to answer more questions correctly than his or her one hundred adversaries — and by that standard, few have ever seemed as superbly qualified as Christopher Langan. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Ruthanne pointed ahead to the wrought iron fence that surrounded hundreds or maybe fifty or so graves. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were great warriors, those Japanese, and had been for hundreds of years. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several years back he had told Bernabe: “Six hundred years ago maybe you could have grown up to be somebody like Michelangelo.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now the problem's about getting hold of hundreds of pounds. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want a critique! I want six hundred dollars.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“That the army hemmed in and machine-gunned three thousand workers and that their bodies were carried off to be thrown into the sea on a train with two hundred cars.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And thus it took over two hundred years after his death, in the fourth century bc, for his mantle to be assumed by Cicero. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Charles’s father, Dr. Robert Darwin, was a huge man—over three hundred pounds, with a huge personality and reputation to match. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mist curled into a hundred smoky serpents, slithering up the porch columns, curling around the house. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

"I've watched Kung Fu Panda like a hundred times. Does that count?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Of one hundred and ten questions about his lineage, Werner can accurately answer only sixteen. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Once they reached Weep and all was revealed, whoever had made the closest guess would win the purse—which was up to some five hundred silver now, and bursting at its frayed green seams. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I’ll smack him if he says easy. “—hard. Until you remember decimals are just a fraction of one hundred.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Working in the factory put Shin in close daily contact with several hundred women in their teens, twenties, and thirties. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They were now two hundred miles north of their next destination, Mexico City. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They can cost hundreds and hundreds of pounds, sometimes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

You’re alone three hundred plus miles at sea in a small boat. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Construction began in about 1000 a.d. on an earthen structure that would eventually cover fifteen acres and rise to a height of about a hundred feet, higher than anything around it for miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

That approach had raised Oak Ridge from an unpopulated valley in remote Tennessee; when national security hung in the balance, as it did now, who would begrudge a few hundred thousand kilowatts? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She studies me a moment, then says, “We lost to Mount Vernon by six points. They swept the four hundred and won the four-by-four-hundred. It lost us the meet.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

On the floor around them were hundreds of wood chips, but they were still stuck up to their knees inside the gazebo. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

‘They did. Seven hundred against seventy. It wasn’t a battle. It was .. .just target practice ... for them. Some of our men were killed and the British huzzaed and took the road to Concord.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the hanging smoke, Lefty saw other streetcars letting off other workers, hundreds and hundreds of gray figures trudging across the paved courtyard toward the factory gates. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It plunged down a hundred feet to a beach. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Gregor wished he had time to go through the stuff more carefully; some of it must have been hundreds of years old. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The building consisted mainly of one narrow and profoundly vertical room—a giant stairwell, essentially—dominated by a skeletal staircase that corkscrewed from the floor to a stone landing, more than a hundred feet up. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Zeus appointed him director of Camp Half-Blood to dry out for a hundred years—a punishment for chasing some off-limits wood nymph. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then, looking around, he saw a pool of water less than a hundred yards away from where he was standing. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Breaking the Silence Can I have two hundred dollars to take to the Dallas Cup? you ask. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

That meant twenty dollars was worth at least four hundred eighty Zim dollars—enough to get me back in school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In the Middle East, it took about forty-five hundred. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, some eighteen hundred people died, and more than half a million others were displaced, a tragedy exacerbated by the ineptitude of the federal government’s response. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew the Carter home was a station—only a hundred yards separated it from the river—even when raids came up empty. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We were making hundreds of dollars a month. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Starting perhaps a hundred feet below them on the steeper side of the mountain, the patch might have been designed expressly for fuel. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Massive stone walls, hundreds of feet high, moving like sliding glass doors—an image from his past life that flashed through his thoughts. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Without saying much, the manager paid him six hundred yuan, or about seventy-two dollars. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

If Smith could get the horse into a race on the weekend of February 9, he would have time enough to run him once more before the hundred- grander. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now I am a man that can read and for some folks that makes a difference to them. For some folks, it made a big difference to them when I turned one hundred.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

About two hundred neuroscientists gathered with support from the National Academy of Sciences to confront a new question: What is technology doing to our brains? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I guess it would get tedious after five hundred years.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The houses there might not have been as magnificent or graceful as on some of the other squares in the city, but many had been standing for more than five hundred years. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A hundred pounds and four feet eleven inches. You’re a bit small for your age,” she declared. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Beezle was hardly over a hundred pounds, and his enormous, unwieldy bundle of sheets and towels had to weigh fifty or sixty pounds. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Battle of the Bulge ended about the middle of January, with the newspapers reporting seventy-seven thousand Allied casualties and one hundred twenty thousand German casualties. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“They paid like three hundred dollars to some scalper for counterfeit tickets!” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The sun beat down, and the humidity was about two hundred percent, even stickier than in Houston. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The other complained too much about the physical hardships—demanding that he be allowed to sit in a chair and be carried for the last two hundred miles. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Estimates ranged as high as two hundred, though such extravagance seems implausible even for a man of his appetite. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In only about a hundred years in that city’s Central Park, its inscriptions have been almost totally obliterated, because of smog and industrial pollution—chemical erosion like that in the atmosphere of Venus. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a hundred yards away, a huge creature was wading through a hayfield wielding a pair of gigantic scythes. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The walls of the Hall had all been covered in sparkling silver frost, with hundreds of garlands of mistletoe and ivy crossing the starry black ceiling. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Seeing as how we wanted to make sure it was a hundred percent right.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the same way I did right after May died, only multiplied by a hundred. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because there are four hundred kids out there yelling for blood. And they don’t care whose blood it is anymore. Everybody in the school knows about the black box—how can Archie back down?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody told her not to, so she went out in her purple coat and took a full two hundred and fifty steps away from the house, then sat in a cool patch of grass. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Three hundred dollars was a little more than the average person got paid in a month outside the camps in America. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They counted it together—three hundred and twenty-two dollars. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Arrows directed guests to hundreds of hands-on scientific exhibits. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

And Wang Lung asked his son how his children did, and he answered they had the hundred days’ cough, but it was a slight thing now that the weather was warm. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He sniffled again as we came up on the last hundred meters. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The Street in Cairo exhibit alone employed nearly two hundred Egyptians and contained twenty-five distinct buildings, including a fifteen-hundred-seat theater that introduced America to a new and scandalous form of entertainment. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Even if he could find his way back to the platform, no one would let him down, and he couldn’t jump two hundred feet to the ground. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was sent to the blackboard to write one hundred times: I will never never never never never never ever again spit on the floor. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The taste of blood was on his tongue, and his ears rang to the song of the hundred cousins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By the way, I say five hundred and fifty people because that’s full capacity in this theater—I do not want to hear it referred to as an auditorium! Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

By the fact that Milton took hundreds of baby photographs of Chapter Eleven and no more than twenty or so of me? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"Car number two," the father went on, "cost me one hundred and eighteen pounds and sold for seven hundred and sixty. Got it?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

You take a little two by four country storekeeper like I say it takes a man with just five hundred dollars to worry about it fifty thousand dollars’ worth. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has ancient Chinese sailing ships called junks, hundreds clustered together with thousands of people living in them. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

It looked to him like there were at least four hundred people in the room. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Navy blue, printed with hundreds of tiny hot dogs. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Along the path through the park there were hundreds of flowers of different colors that excited the twins. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Four doors are draining straight at me with about three hundred kids streaming down the steps and across the lawns, headed for the cars and buses and sidewalks that take them home. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only twenty-three of the twenty-five hundred blacks working for Louis Swift made their way to the Yard. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But she swung the rucksack onto her back, left the car, turned into the Banbury Road, and walked the two or three hundred yards up to where Sunderland Avenue ran left from the rotary. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the T. nutricula specimen he sent me was huge, more than three hundred millimeters.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Schmidt is about a hundred years old. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

A few hundred miles south of Winthrop Hospital, Alfred Vanderbilt was busy cultivating a passion of his own. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to her and brought her, still tied hand and foot, so that she could watch the final pathetic struggle of the man in black three hundred feet below. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

At the Herald, Boston’s second-largest newspaper, its chief editorial writer was preparing what hundreds of thousands would read the next morning. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The chest cavity is caved in beneath the black clothes, home to hundreds of the black-green flies feasting on the body. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To provide ourselves with a source of nutrition that will keep, aside from the hundred cans of food we’ve stored here, we bought three hundred pounds of beans. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And then he leaned over toward Milo and whispered softly, “By the eight million two hundred and forty-seven thousand three hundred and twelve threads in my robe, I’ll say there are. Look here.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is a few hundred billion; some recent estimates place it at 4 x 1011. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giant peach swayed gently from side to side as it floated along, and the hundreds of silky white strings going upward from its stem were beautiful in the moonlight. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re pretty much down to the bare minimum. We have trouble finding things for all the inmates to do—there are only programs for three or four hundred men.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It could end up costing hundreds by the time we get there." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He leaned against the stone sill and looked out on dark towers, empty yards, black sky, and more stars than a man could ever count if he lived to be a hundred. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I devein six hundred thousand million shrimp, and Dee chops broccoli and cauliflower into twelve million trillion perfect little trees. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

All the magicians on earth—at least everyone who knew what they were doing—had perished five hundred years earlier when the volcano erupted. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

"If you had a hundred archers as good as yourself, you might have a chance to hold the castle," a voice said softly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Write a summary of the passage, one hundred and fifty words.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He lifted one finger, as though with one finger he could control the wind and the waves that hurled a ship, a crew, and three hundred tons of cargo toward the waiting rocks. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A hundred to one he doesn’t tell them about his assassin, though.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Aunt Ivy had warned me a hundred times about the “wild men out West.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Up a few steps and along the back wall is a wood-paneled bar with tuxedoed bartenders and hundreds of bottles lined up on shelves in front of a smoky mirror. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Countless hundreds of birds, orbiting the village green once, elasticking longer, twice, winging shorter, three times, then, as if following an order, vanishing inside the tree again. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

"My lord, I have thirty men in my personal guard, and other friends beside, knights and lords. Give me an hour, and I can put a hundred swords in your hand." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The glass factory prospered, and the owner decided to expand the business by moving it to Kraków, a thriving city about three hundred fifty miles southwest of Narewka. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

A hundred oarsmen and sailors went down with Lord Steffon Baratheon and his lady wife, and for days thereafter every tide left a fresh crop of swollen corpses on the strand below Storm's End. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her mother caught her doing that because she left it near the light bulb too long and the mercury shot up to a hundred and ten. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

More than six hundred new knights were made that day. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Here, more than 3,000 lost children arrive from a refugee camp in Ethiopia back to Sudan after walking hundreds of miles without sufficient food or water. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car had flipped and skidded for several hundred feet before exploding. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

When she finished with barely a whisper—“Can you hear it/”—and leaned with her cupped hand to her ear, fifteen hundred people seemed to inch forward, straining to hear. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Erin goes eighty-eight for one hundred and I go ninety for one hundred. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

News of Mrs. Roosevelt’s resignation was splashed across the front pages of more than four hundred newspapers from San Francisco to New York City. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

One had a skirt like a cage carved of whalebone, another a long train made of hundreds of doves’ wings all stitched together. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She had enjoyed the summer school so much that she wanted to matriculate in the same college that fall but she had no way of raising the more than three hundred dollars required for tuition. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

You might think there are hundreds or even thousands of ways in which one thought can lead to another, but in fact the number is far smaller. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“El Patron’s one hundred and forty-three today,” said Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1922 there were barely a hundred people living in the village. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

One hundred percent would stand up without hesitation when I said, “How many believe what they have heard?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time she gets a few hundred dollars saved up here and there, the pipes start leaking or the roof needs fixing. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was the next night that about one hundred and thirty thousand people in Dresden would die. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They served two hundred people Christian Brothers Brandy out of an E & J bottle, and E & J Brandy out of a Christian Brothers bottle. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But he could smell unfamiliar spices on the air, and hear men and women speaking to each other in a hundred tongues, and he gawked and gazed unashamedly. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It passed hundreds of exact copies of Elizebeth’s decrypts to the U.S. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Even though it doesn’t work a hundred percent of the time, it's a good trick for dealing with a tricky spelling problem. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That made him a hundred times more dangerous. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

On narrow shelves made of wood, hundreds of naked men and boys lay chained together, wrists, necks, and legs held tightly by iron shackles. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’d pay a hundred dollars just to have our place in line.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

A thousand eyes, a hundred skins, wisdom deep as the roots of ancient trees. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At lunch they went through three hundred two-foot loaves of bread, 150 gallons of milk, and twelve hundred cups of ice cream. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then one cold winter morning after roll call, Jack and several hundred other prisoners were held back while the others were marched off to work. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The converter attachment, which had cost them one hundred dollars, automatically supplied her name whenever the announcer addressed his anonymous audience, leaving a blank where the proper syllables could be filled in. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve told them my plan a hundred times: Move back to New York City and be an editor. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Martin Luther King III were among those who traveled hundreds of miles to participate in what was heralded as “the beginnings of a new civil rights movement.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The great ships of Boston which had been bringing wealth for over a hundred years were idle at their berths. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the dozens, then hundreds, then thousands, they began to assemble at the border crossings between East and West Berlin on the evening of November 9. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I know. You are one hundred percent right. I’m sorry.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She opened her other hand and, from Pinmei’s handkerchief, hundreds of rice grains fell onto the floor like a sudden rain shower. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Brian, Derek, and the raft traveled one hundred and nineteen miles down a river with an average current speed of two miles an hour, in just under sixty-three hours. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

His school had about six hundred kids in it, so five times that. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hall was lit with dozens of torches, dancing and fluttering, casting strange shadows over the hundred feasters, either revealing their true nature or concealing it—one can never tell. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Or the hundreds of times we called each other to check the homework assignment, even though we both already knew it. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The people inside congratulate me on my victory/near-death experience on this wild little bus driving a hundred miles an hour through the Puerto Rican countryside. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Ahead of us, cleared and revealed by the same vast sweep of the wind, lay twisted valleys, hundreds of feet below, full of ice and boulders. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was jarred—a little spooked, as well—at so blatant a reference to something referred to, by mutual agreement, almost exclusively with codes, catchwords, a hundred different euphemisms. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now the builder was hauling the rocks up hundreds of feet and manhandling each rock into place. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Already traffic on the street had increased sharply, as each day hundreds of citizens drove their carriages to the park to see the chosen site. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Jenna laughs, this person that is me, and calls, “He has a hundred quahogs, Mom! Put that down, or we’ll starve!” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Later Sumerian cuneiform did become capable of rendering prose, but it did so by the messy system that I’ve already described, with mixtures of logograms, phonetic signs, and unpronounced determinatives totaling hundreds of separate signs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I know. I know. But I believe you a hundred percent. I think she would too.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It is the best solution he can come up with, knowing that in a few weeks the circus will be hundreds of miles away, leaving him alone in London. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“How much do you want to bet that at eleven o’clock, on the dot, the clue we need most of all will pop up in the three hundreds section?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

In his classic 1974 study Getting a Job, Granovetter looked at several hundred professional and technical workers from the Boston suburb of Newton, interviewing them in some detail on their employment history. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom unlocked the lobby door, which is iron and glass and must weigh three hundred pounds, and she pushed hard to swing it open, her heels slipping on the tile floor. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Marcus glances over his shoulder with a smile, and I realize with a jolt that it's something I've seen him do hundreds of times. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I picked up the receiver, trying not to imagine the hundreds of snot-nosed brats that had probably groped it, and prayed it still worked. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“More than one hundred thousand dollars,” according to Miles Umlatt’s article in the Island Examiner, “all of it in fifty- and one-hundred-dollar denominations.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

A hundred or two hundred cities dreaming hot summer-day dreams and cool summer- night dreams... The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

SCORPIUS: Albus, there have been about a hundred books written on what Dumbledore knew, how he knew it or why he did what he did. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t pay two hundred marks so she could sleep all day.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She held it up and shouted, "In this tiny bottle is five hundred doses of Mouse-Maker! Is enough to turrrn five hundred children into mice!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

But here and there small purple flowers shone iridescently, and in the upturned earth and ragged dunes a few delicate asters grew; for some reason, hundreds of tiny fuzzy caterpillers were chewing on the asters. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To prove his point, he made one hundred finger guns. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

So that’s a minimum of one hundred and twenty pairs of eyes that find their way over to me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

His eyes were coolly assessing the hundreds of SS guards, the thousands of prisoners surrounding him. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as Ann was addressing the council, a few hundred miles up the eastern seaboard, Newark, New Jersey, was burning. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“They finally towed the Jeep back from Cutler Ridge. Two hundred bucks—I had to pawn my promise ring to pay for it,” she said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

There had to be nearly a hundred people on the steps and spilling out on either side of the building. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After a few hundred miles the plane ascends to the mountains—and again the historical picture has changed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was a collection of over five hundred individual stacks, all connected to each other by a makeshift network of recycled pipes, girders, support beams, and footbridges. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Interesting idea. As a parent, I’m behind it one hundred percent. As a scientist...well, the math doesn’t exactly seem realistic.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It seemed hotter than Phoenix or Battle Mountain, where it regularly climbed above a hundred degrees, so when Dad told me it was only ninety degrees, I said the thermometer must be broken. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He played cards for thirty-six hours straight before he left New York, winning a couple hundred dollars. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Maybe hundred, hundred and twenty kilos so far,” Nailer estimated. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Domishmen are notoriously stubborn, Your Grace. Prince Quentyn’s forebears fought your own for die better part of two hundred years. He will not go without you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Figure out of two hundred traps I’ll get back half, eventual. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He strove to make the ranch, called Ridgewood, a model of rustic self-sufficiency, complete with massive herds of cattle and sheep, several hundred horses, a dairy, a slaughterhouse, and fruit orchards. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hundred years fade into the dark stain on its edges, smoke-black, dark as a forest river, dark as the plexus from which its song comes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They’d obtained over a hundred new recruits, mainly rats but with a good scattering of ferrets and weasels, and the odd stoat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I’ve carried that stone up this hill hundreds of times,” he said. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“There’s no hope of escaping from Endovier. Your father made sure that each of Endovier’s sentries could shoot a squirrel from two hundred paces away. To attempt to flee is suicide.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Just before sunset an agent bought her for two hundred and twenty-six dollars. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“He lived over a hundred years ago,” I say. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Five hundred feet high and more, they rise above the canopy like old tombstones. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Spirit Bears five hundreds of miles south of here off the coast of British Columbia, not here in these islands.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“So here’s our tailwind. The checks range from five dollars to two hundred and fifty, and our new grand total is four thousand seven hundred and sixty-five!” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

On the day the soldiers grabbed Heritage, they seized around two hundred kids. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Sputnik was proof, American policymakers assumed, that the Soviet Union had intercontinental ballistic missiles—many of them, hundreds perhaps, with the power to hurl an atomic weapon at US cities. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Eleven hundred screaming, cheering kids went suddenly silent at the sight of the eighth grade president stretched out, dazed, on the grass. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

This year it just happened to be five hundred dollars. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have to put up two hundred lire to make twenty,” he said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Today we expect a hundred guests here for music and passed hors d’oeuvres. Then a sit-down lunch upstairs in the parlors on the third floor.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The fare wouldn’t be much for such a short distance, maybe a few hundred credits. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

One hundred fathoms down a marlin was eating the sardines that covered the point and the shank of the hook where the hand-forged hook projected from the head of the small tuna. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood five feet eight and was said to weigh over a hundred and seventy pounds. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve read a hundred tales of heroes and the trials they face—what harm if I invent one and pass it off as truth? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Soon he was joined in the streets by others until hundreds of people were afflicted. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The elevator, the only one for hundreds of miles, conveyed them to the eighth floor. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A journalist who had watched Smith for years described him thus: “He nods hello, shakes hands goodbye, and hasn’t said a hundred words in all.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ignoring the laws of debt and repayment, they built churches which couldn’t be paid for in a hundred years. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the cases where the Supreme Court had previously granted relief under the Eighth Amendment, the number of sentences challenged usually totaled fewer than a hundred or so nationwide. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“At least break it up into chunks. No book should be longer than two hundred and fifty pages, ever. I’m supposed to lug that thing around?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

A hundred muskets fired at me, point blank. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It’s like a hundred touchdowns scoring at once. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to ruin your road trip—but for five hundred American dollars a week, I will.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

All I could do now was hope I didn’t cry like a little girl in front of the hundreds of kids having breakfast. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We duck down—a cloud of flame shoots up a hundred yards ahead of us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today more than two hundred have been identified; many are as much as 500 feet from one side to the other. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After a few hundred yards they turn off and point to a house that stands a little distance away among the trees and shrubbery. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had it in my head I was going to do a hundred. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

After a year of depositions, hearings, and pretrial litigation, we eventually reached a settlement with most of the defendants that would provide Walter with a few hundred thousand dollars. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Three thousand one hundred and nineteen wildlings passed through the gate today,” the Lord Steward told him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The teachers, the chaperones, the parents, hundreds of kids—they were all dancing like crazy. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

On their way back across the Channel, Bernard insisted on stopping his propeller and hovering on his helicopter screws within a hundred feet of the waves. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Thursday, June 8, Luther Rice signaled the firemen at the big steam boilers seven hundred feet away on Lexington Avenue, outside the Midway, to build steam and fill the ten-inch underground mains. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The whole surface of the cloud was literally swarming with them, and there were hundreds more up above, climbing about on that monstrous crazy arch. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe hundreds of these letters had gone out. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It fell day after day until hundreds of tons of it lay upon the rooftops at Jackson Park. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Old Nan said they had Stark blood in them, going back hundreds of years, but they did not look like Starks to Bran. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If she had told him once, she had told him a hundred times: “Frank, you better take out life insurance.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“So, gifts,” he said, recovering, though Sarai wouldn’t have minded dwelling for a moment on his hundred nicer things. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Three hundred years, the mulefa had said: that was how long the trees had been failing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I popped the top off and started digging through the hundreds of pieces of torn newspaper. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

That June, he appeared in front of the most elite basketball players in the world, an audience of one hundred rookies entering the National Basketball Association. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The first line of ogres burst out of the woods and barreled toward the airfield—five hundred yards away, four hundred yards... The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

That was the last sane and clear thought I had before I saw at least a hundred bright lightbulbs and five boys onstage singing that new Sly and the Family Stone song. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then we type in more phrases—hundreds of them: to the mall, from a distance, in the middle of, as a result, the reason why. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Pashtun kings ruled this country for almost two hundred and fifty years, Laila, and Tajiks for all of nine months, back in 1929. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I told Archie what I had thought in prison about him; that his brain, which could tape-record hundreds of number combinations a day, should have been put at the service of mathematics or science. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It rose swirling off a hundred distant fires, its sooty fin gers smudging out the stars. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Nine hundred home runs? Is that a lot?” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Buddy couldn’t have weighed much more than a hundred pounds, and I worried that he had AIDS. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, that’s not one hundred percent true, but sort of. I mean, I’d won everything else. It was the one thing I couldn’t seem to conquer. I just felt like ... I don’t know.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They were all the same—the March of Dimes, Habitat for Humanity, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, all for hundreds. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

At least a thousand, maybe more: bowmen, spearmen, peasants armed with scythes and sharpened sticks, freeriders and mounted archers, and another hundred knights to stiffen them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The thousands of people had been weeded down to a few hundred, many of whom were still trying to find a way out. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And then, looking him in the eye, said, “And I’ll be seeing you on day three hundred sixty-six.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A platoon of thirty soldiers or even a company of a hundred soldiers can function well on the basis of intimate relations, with a minimum of formal discipline. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The cells were frozen over a hundred years ago.They can’t be as healthy as samples taken yesterday.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could see the rippling deep within the steel, where the metal had been folded back on itself a hundred times in the forging. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“One time my daddy saw his ancestor who’d been dead a hundred years,” I said, stubborn. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“But for a young woman with a handicap of her own, pushing one hundred pounds along ten miles is not something that can be done on a whim.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t simply that since the College of Physicians had met he had spent every waking minute seeing patients, usually over one hundred a day. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He decided that until the danger was past, his wife and children must go stay with his father, who lived in a small town three hundred miles away. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The wind screamed like a Super Bowl crowd or a hundred thousand souls let loose from purgatory. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s pointing ahead, where a church is lit by hundreds of candles. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Now it was going to serve as a home away from home for one hundred American prisoners of war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words two hundred million dollars were underlined, but she found a more interesting item. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1841, according to one legislative report, “More than a hundred blows were struck daily. . . . The whipping post was never dry. ” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are something like a hundred trillion, 1014, such connections in the human cerebral cortex. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though Wormtail had flipped over a stone and revealed something ugly, slimy, and blind — but worse, a hundred times worse. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Throughout the war, hundreds of Soviet night bomber regiments moved to follow the front line, as it skirted swamps or rough terrain, or bulged in one direction or another when there was a local victory. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"And two hundred and fourteen meters isn't a hard limit, per se." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seconds later, the moist ground came alive as hundreds of cobra slithered out from the shadows and gathered around the corpse, hypnotized by the spell. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Seven hundred feet up, Jon Snow stood looking down upon the haunted forest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But there are easily a couple hundred undead moving toward us, many newly turned and moving so quickly that for a moment a dark wave of fear threatens to drown me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Upstream a narrow suspension catwalk stretched fifteen hundred feet across the river, swaying slightly, like a cobweb in the evening breeze. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Hell was and would always be as far as she was concerned, a lake of fire exactly the size of Maycomb, Alabama, surrounded by a brick wall two hundred feet high. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I say, rolling my eyes, because I swear he owes me like a hundred dollars from years of not giving back the right change. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

These structures were mixed in among buildings that dated back to the American Revolution, most notably Paul Revere’s house, a dwelling that was already almost one hundred years old when Revere made it his home. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Another hundred years were ground up and churned, and what had happened was all muddied by the way folks wanted it to be—more rich and meaningful the farther back it was. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Good entertainers try to make each performance seem special, but you need to remember that the show they’re putting on for you is the same one they’ve put on for hundreds of other audiences. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Someone else, someone with a heart. Mr. Sheridan, what beats in your chest? Tell us, why has Romeo and Juliet survived four hundred years?" Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

They think I can help out with the family business, prepping pounds of veggies, mixing all the spices, packing hundreds of foil trays before a big party. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Never in her life had she had more than one hundred dollars in her hand. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

One hundred and twenty-four seconds later, Root’s black-and-white blueprints faded out, to be replaced by full-color daylight imaging. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Over the next several days, Min sketched what seemed like hundreds of designs. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

About a hundred yards away, he spotted a raised dais with two empty oversized praetor chairs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She gets called for the fifteen hundred, and she goes barefoot. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Drogo was a bolder man than the other horselords in half a hundred ways, she had found . . . but not in this. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Nobody has said thy in, like, three hundred years, Zoe. Get with the times.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The police searched the entire farm and confiscated hundreds of documents and papers, though they found no weapons. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody talked about it, but by the end of the first day Salva had become the leader of a group of about fifteen hundred boys. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay. I shouldn’t have been a jerk to you either, and I should’ve learned my lines. You’d only told me a hundred times. So I’m sorry, too.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

If all the Blackwater mercenaries were carrying at least two guns each, that would mean hundreds of 9mm Heckler and Koch sidearms, hundreds of M-16 rifles and M-4 machine guns. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Mark almost scooted over to her about a hundred times but stopped himself. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

In two days and nights the companions made the crossing from Iffish to Soders Island, a hundred miles of foul weather and contrary winds. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Why, Maine extends northward almost to the mouth of the St. Lawrence, and its upper border is perhaps a hundred miles north of Quebec. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

"One bottle is enough for five hundred people," I said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Dr. Harlow Shapley of Harvard gave Dad a hundred or more photographs of stars, nebulae and solar eclipses. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sarai woke up gagging on the feel of a hundred damp moths cramming themselves down her throat. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He gave eight hundred to the food drive in the cafeteria. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

"Now, onward to enjoy your weekends, my noble six hundred!" Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Six hundred and ninety dollars down the toilet. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The corps first built a mock-up of the tunnel, several hundred feet long, in the Nevada desert. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In just two hours, hundreds of people have liked and reblogged the pictures. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

My dad used to pretend he was a horse running on the beach, and I can’t jog a few hundred feet to catch up to this little bus! Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

There were two hundred transportees on that ship, packed into the hold like so many fat hogs on their way to market. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The Philippines, with over seven thousand islands but only five hundred lighthouses, was known for its frequency of maritime accidents. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I wish I had a hundred years,” she said, very quietly. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Thorn pointed ahead, and there, through the now open path, was a lagoon, shining with beautiful crystal-clear waters and what looked like hundreds of blue lightning bugs. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Each may consume several hundred aphids before the ceaseless turning of the cycle of its life brings the time when it will spin a white silken cocoon in which to pass the pupal stage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He was robbing these folks blind, charging them a hundred percent markup on his cheap goods, and he was worried about them stealing from him! The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one hundred percent certain that the person she was baking for would never have tasted anything quite so heavenly in all his life. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t need them to remind me of Momma, I couldn’t think about her any more if there were a hundred hours in every day and a thousand days in every week. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

In the Gardens of Gelenei stood a guided tree a hundred feet high with leaves of hammered silver. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

During the five weeks after the broadcast, the FCC received more than six hundred letters, postcards, and telegrams. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

After a nighttime rally at a black church in the town square, four hundred people filed out the church doors and moved down a sidewalk lined by helmeted state troopers and deputy sheriffs. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hundred million souls reached their long shadowy fingers up from the depths of the sea. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

There are in fact hundreds of leitmotifs in the Ring, which can be layered simultaneously on top of each other or introduced in quick succession. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The principal’s gold cufflinks alone would bring in hundreds! Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

As he tried to put on the brakes, she grabbed hold of his arm, and together they spun around three hundred and sixty degrees. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

My family, including two great-grandfathers and a great-great-grandmother who was one hundred and nine years old, traveled from place to place in seven wagons pulled by fourteen horses. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

As the undertakers prepared to leave, one said to the other, “Well, that’s that. Almost a hundred years old and not a soul to mourn her.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The day of the meeting, nearly one hundred people squeezed into the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs hearing room. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The government was spending hundreds of millions of dollars—yet the project was so secret, President Roosevelt chose not to tell Congress where all the money was going. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been admitted to Stanford, one hundred miles away. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask, thinking of at least three hundred things she could be apologizing for. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, here’s what we know for sure. The final count: one hundred and seventeen students injured in total.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Went down to Transylvania, three hundred and ninety to ten,” said Charlie gloomily. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The hundred hours of community service she had been given for her actions were nothing compared to the way people pretended not to stare when she walked by. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was a skull, and there were hundreds of them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

On Wednesday morning, the band of three hundred reached the point where the highway widened back to four lanes, ending the court’s limitation on the number of marchers. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You think you can handle the one hundred too?" Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

As the settlers were outnumbered across most of the continent until the first decade of the nineteenth century, this meant that their interactions with Indigenous peoples were defined by violence for two hundred years. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s more than three hundred miles, by railroad.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not imagine what hundreds and thousands of wagons looked like. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, I have at least a hundred nicer things to say and am only prevented by embarrassment.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Six feet tall and two hundred pounds, Marshall had permission to take extra “medical” showers be-cause, he explained, he was bothered by a bullet lodged near his shoulder. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flew to Los Angeles and drove hundreds of miles through the heart of Central California farmland to meet Antonio at a maximum-security prison dominated by gangs and frequent violence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Anthony gave her first public speech to two hundred people at a Daughters of Temperance meeting on March 2, 1849. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“How much we start with? Like seven hundred fifty, right?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I have a hundred gigs of music on my brand-new Mac laptop and Netflix and high-speed Internet. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“They say you only need a hundred pounds per acre. I’m putting on closer to one hundred eighty,” Naylor explained to me, a bit sheepishly. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There was a time when I had willpower, when I could run 10k before breakfast and subsist for weeks on thirteen hundred calories a day. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I lived to be almost one hundred years old,” she went on slowly, close to tears now. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He opened it, then took out two hundred and seventy dollars, which he gave to X-Ray, along with his sandwich. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I have been in my domain for nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-five days. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Ishmael Chambers trained as a marine rifleman with seven hundred and fifty other recruits at Parris Island, South Carolina, in the late summer of 1942. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We know now of nine large volcanoes, spewing out gas and debris, and hundreds— perhaps thousands—of extinct volcanoes on Io. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been unconscious in the hospital wing for the final match of the previous year, meaning that Gryffindor had been a player short and had suffered their worst defeat in three hundred years. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

As early as 1852 there was a restaurant at the summit and the proprietors were serving about a hundred meals a day. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Two thousand seven hundred and fifty-three people from over ninety nations were killed. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You have three hundred sixty-five days of immunity.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

High among the high rafters of the workshop a half hundred glass spheres hung from chains. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He pumped for a time and counted them, figuring that he worked the pump about thirty times a minute, so a hundred minutes would be three thousand pumps. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was nervous, but not really scared — I was only a hundred yards away from the sanctuary entrance, and if I sprinted, they wouldn’t be able to catch me before I got to safety. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

If, as seems likely, it is a hundred or more light years away, there are going to be some very long pauses. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To register and board hundreds of thousands within a matter of days, I don’t think it’s possible, sir.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In 1630 John Winthrop led what was then the largest party of would-be colonists from Britain—some seven hundred people—to Massachusetts, where they founded the city of Boston. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Actually, I’m worried that I’m going to let everyone down. I can do the ten miles, but the farthest I’ve pushed a hundred pounds is five. And five was hard.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Six hundred feet of hungry air grasps at my legs. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In addition, Australia’s aridity, infertility, and climatic unpredictability limited its hunter-gatherer population to only a few hundred thousand people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The hall was the grandest space she had ever been in—higher roofed than any church, wider than most fields, filled with hundreds of diners at scores of long tables. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I think I read somewhere about six hundred thousand a year,” Grandpa Nyles told him. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You remember when you sent me a telegram for a hundred dollars?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His memoir had flopped, about five hundred copies sold from a printing of three thousand. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They chose two trees about a hundred yards apart and each boy stood under one of them waiting for the conies to come out again. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

With all those people, hundreds of heavy padded chairs, and all those bags, how would the plane ever get off the ground? A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Pattie carried over one hundred shades in their squat little glass containers. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“It must have come from the Indian Ocean. They used to kind of embed it in the glass. That wasn’t made less than a hundred years ago. More, by the look of it.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

That would leave him with only a hundred and fifty-seven dollars. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“If the hairball thinks it’s his duty to learn eleven hundred names, who are we to burst his bubble by telling him he doesn’t have to?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

In the days leading up to the launch, two hundred protesters, led by the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, made their way to Cape Kennedy. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It is easy: some weeks he can make as much as five hundred francs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

"Three hundred, perhaps four . . . among three thousand armored lances who are not knights." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“We don’t. You could have come from a hundred places around here. But this is where you came to. And this is where you are.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

There are at least a hundred people gathered on Magnolia Avenue. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Before the night ended, the New York Times received nearly nine hundred calls about the invasion. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

His father goes around bragging how he phonied up a car-insurance claim to get a hundred dollars to replace a piece of aluminum on their new car, which he had really replaced himself. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Shayla is right. He lived in the eighteen hundreds and he did quite a bit of writing.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“And a lot of feet. One hundred, to be exact.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

One time, out of that hundred, I helped her. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

"That was his time for the one hundred meter." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“God, one hundred and ten,” she said finally, rattling the paper. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

One Soviet tournament registered more than seven hundred thousand players, in cities throughout the country. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Themselves, they had covered twelve hundred miles with two days’ rest, and in the nature of reason and common justice they deserved an interval of loafing. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat naked on her bed and looked at her life, in this tiny room with the moldy carpet, the hundred dollar bill on the table, her body rising with loathing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She describes how hundreds of people lived together in that single structure. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

With the wind and the snow I could only see maybe a hundred feet. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"Sustained winds over one hundred kph now," she said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three of us could not challenge a hundred, so we went ahead and spoke with feigned voices, leading them on into the wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Here it is, man. I know you asked for five hundred but it’s one thousand. You want to count it?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Bringing in a scalp made them two hundred shillings. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Dinka and the Nuer had been fighting each other for hundreds of years. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“South Carolina is hundreds of miles from here-over bad roads. Lady Seymour would be dead by Philadelphia.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finch’s Landing consisted of three hundred and sixty-six steps going down a high bluff and ending in a wide jetty jutting out into the river. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Row M. Not bad. Two hundred and seventy, right?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Where his freckles had been, a hundred little holes pulsed blood down his pale cheeks. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It dates back over a hundred years, before all corn was just “corn.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Can you believe it? A hundred and fifty dollars for a permit! I’m so mad at myself.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Ladies and gentlemen . . . welcome! Welcome to the final of the four hundred and twenty-second Quidditch World Cup!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I’ve hammered a nail into the bed every morning since she died! It’s the first thing I do after waking! Eight thousand six hundred twenty-nine nails!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

By October he's drawn one hundred studies of figures—all since Theo's August visit. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The general synopsis at eighteen hundred issued by the Met Office: Fitzroy, mainly northerly, four or five, becoming variable, thundery showers ... The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t account for that hundred years, so I assumed it was a typo. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Jefferson then apologized in return, claiming that he received over twelve hundred letters a year, all of which required responses, so it was difficult for him to match the Adams pace. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Fourteen hundred delegates from all over the country representing one hundred fifty different religious, social, cultural, and political bodies converged on Pietermaritzburg for the All-in Conference. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been the school’s first, but this was its one hundred and sixty-third Winter Session, and the forces reassembled for it scattered the easygoing summer spirit like so many fallen leaves. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the month the glide scope had been under repair, there had been about fifteen hundred safe landings at Guam airport. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

There were four hundred and fifty monkeys alive in the building, and their hoots and cries sounded in the empty hallways. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this part of the resort now there were hundreds of soldiers, many of them in loud gangs drifting through the streets, singing and shouting. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

"Don't tell Lady Stark, I beg you. We don't have a hundred of me to trade." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The hullbeast raised his arm and easily swatted aside hundreds of brand flies. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A thunderstorm raged above, but they were hundreds of feet down. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The amount of lead in the atmosphere also continues to grow, quite legally, by about a hundred thousand metric tons a year, mostly from mining, smelting, and industrial activities. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

All I said to her was that I wanted to find the old Gribley farm, and that the Gribleys hadn’t lived on it for maybe a hundred years, and she was off. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Put that away! The Lan- nisters are a hundred leagues away. Neva draw your sword unless you mean to use it. How many times must I tell you, foolish boy?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

On the day we were to leave, there were about a hundred of us lined up in front of the guards who would oversee our return to Płaszów. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Myelin is often likened to the plastic coating around electrical wires—it insulates the neural circuits, making them about a hundred times faster than unmyelinated circuits. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There are, of course, a hundred potential answers to that question. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A hundred versions of what a hard landing would feel like managed to squeeze into her head. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A thousand eyes, a hundred skins, wisdom deep as the roots of ancient trees. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“What is it if I let you make five hundred dollars to let me make ten thousand? ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A whole row of unstrung bows in varying stages of repair or build rested on a worktable, and hundreds of bushels of arrows were stacked into pyramids on the floor beside them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He does not want to be known one hundred percent by me, if his face is any indication. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The newspapers tell you what you can purchase: five hundred grams of sugar, two liters of milk, two kilograms of potatoes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I look up and hundreds of butterfly kisses rain on my face. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The next major sequence occurs mainly in the Ohio Valley, hundreds of miles north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps the clues are telling us to locate a secret skinny passageway five hundred paces past some landmark here in the library.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Fabian writes 3/10 equals point three hundred on the board. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

"They may not wish to. They are thousands, and we will be three hundred when the Halfhand reaches us." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Bruce Ng sat in the JPL cafeteria along with hundreds of engineers who had given everything they had to Iris. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The edge plunged into the sea, hundreds of feet below, with sheets of frost constantly crumbling into the water. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Shirley says, “Maybe this year I will learn one hundred scriptures by heart.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"This morning the Wisdom Munciter told me that we had seven thousand eight hundred and forty. That count includes four thousand jars from King Aerys's day, to be sure." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was no one hundred per cent sure way not to have a baby, it said in an article my mother cut out of the Reader's Digest and mailed to me at college. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Three hundred dollars? Really? My passport was much, much, much less than that.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Standing there, feeling the eyes of the two hundred Muslims upon me, I heard him make a parable about me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the hundreds of thousands of troops who died in the war, disease killed more than twice as many men as battlefield wounds. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The Greasy Grass Fight happened a hundred and thirty-eight years ago,” Grandpa Nyles said. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

On another day we got to look into the hatchers and see hundreds of thousands of yellow chicks. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She gave the thrusters one final squeeze and coasted the last hundred feet. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

All told, there were one hundred five Africans, twenty-one Indians, twenty-three whites, and seven Coloureds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I bring ’em out three at a time I can be fishing all two hundred traps in a couple of weeks. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

"And every day, more men rally to his banners. His host is now said to be a hundred thousand strong." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The whole Navajo tribe was forced to walk hundreds of miles to a strange and faraway place the white men called Fort Sumner. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They don’t like to lose. So, partner, what are you going to do with the hundred dollars?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Christ, Lillian. I go five hundred knots in a jet practically every day of my life and you get nervous when I go seventy.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven thousand three hundred tons of sheet metal were being welded together. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Luke intentionally went a hundred feet to the right, not taking a direct line to the plane. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Armstrong’s Radio Church of God grew into an international undertaking, the Worldwide Church of God, and eventually claimed more than one hundred thousand parishioners and listeners. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Three hundred miles beyond Cocos Island, Frightful knew there was land to the east. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

On the narrow peninsula they met hundreds of other raptors going north to their aeries, their nests and scrapes. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Every year we spend hundreds of dollars on phone calls and letters, writing, faxing, cajoling, and bribing, trying to get out of the pilgrimage to Mommy’s tiny house in Ewing. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given to me toward some future fortune. “...number ninety, number ninety-three, number ninety-nine, and number one hundred. Please stay.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Dad always tells them to volunteer because they give away hundreds of dollars in travel vouchers, which is always worth the inconvenience. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In hundreds of houses sleepy women woke sleepier children. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enough to buy himself a hundred and twenty sheep, a return ticket, and a license to import products from Africa into his own country. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a closet filled with hundreds and hundreds of jelly bean fish. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

In a hundred and fifty weeks there are once more only a thousand millions; a thousand thousand thousand men and women have starved to death. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

One leak from a refrigerator at a hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1929 killed more than a hundred people. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I wanted to talk to Papa and them about my four hundred dollars, but it hardly seemed like the time. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

On Mars, and elsewhere in the solar system, we see features that could not be produced today, landscapes carved hundreds of millions or billions of years ago when the planetary climate was probably very different. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay, the voyaging Charles Darwin discovered hundreds of square miles strangled by feral artichoke. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Why could he not simply surrender to the same logic hundreds of thousands of people had recognized? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

As if they had not just been beaten up by a pair of seventh graders in front of the entire football team and five hundred other people. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred dollars a day, almost enough for her monthly rent. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Fischer rushed through the backstage corridor onto the subtly flower-bedecked stage and was greeted by the polite applause of an audience of twenty-three hundred. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of people were killed and hundreds were wounded in pitched battles with machine guns, pistols, and rifles. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But today the platform teemed with hundreds of children, all of whom looked lost and forlorn. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

"This is just like the time you left me at the bottom of that lake in Wales. I had to wait fifteen hundred years to be found! The humiliation." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“If he’s the one, you couldn’t take her with a hundred swords.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Before 1919 was over, in an unprecedented demonstration of labor unrest, there would be thirty-six hundred work stoppages involving four million workers or one-fifth of the nation’s labor force. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It is a thousand years old, roughly contemporaneous with a report of an organ at Winchester Cathedral that boasted an extraordinary four hundred pipes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“But there’s one thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars to win,” said Louisiana. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

"We moved one hundred seven eggs," she said. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Salt is heavier than a hundred bags of shame. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

When I came out of the store I was happy to find that I still had nearly a hundred dollars. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Seventy-five kilometers to the south, at the start of the occupation two and a half years ago, the German planes bombed Rotterdam, killing nine hundred civilians and much of the city's architecture. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Jolly well don’t want to stall at five hundred feet or we’re dead. Let me think...” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, let us take such order that for many hundred years yet this shall be a merry land in a merry world. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

They took him immediately to Thysville, which is about a hundred kilometers south of Léopoldville over the best road in this nation, repaved recently with a grant of foreign aid. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

President John Kennedy, elected in 1960, increased the number of American soldiers from a few hundred to over sixteen thousand. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“No one for three hundred thousand?” the little girl says, looking around. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I love the outhouse!” one of the hundreds of spiders said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

You could tell all three of them had made this walk hundreds of times before. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Others had walked hundreds of miles to neighboring countries to be able to get on a plane. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Stick must have climbed in and out of our window a hundred times. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The Argo II still floated over the river a few hundred yards away. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to let Luke destroy our camp, kill hundreds of demigods, and then attack Olympus? You’re going to bring down the entire world so you can get what you want?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Watching while they opened up the rocky hillside ground with pick and mattock and brought to light a great bolus of serpents perhaps a hundred in number. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She received twelve hundred dollars from the sale of the book. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

For someone who grew up knowing only one person, suddenly knowing hundreds of them was a little intimidating. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It was a pathetic sight: we were all so debilitated that it took the group an incredibly long time just to descend the few hundred feet to the snow slope immediately below. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“They died by scores and hundreds,” recalled one eyewitness to the 1565 outbreak. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This theft would come to several hundred dollars in value, but more important it would ruin the high moral tone of the party. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and the handful of other blacks who lived in this town of thirty-eight hundred people could do whatever they wanted inside that wall; no one really cared. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being stranded on top of a tall pillar surrounded by hundreds of bats made him a little uncomfortable. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s the returns. Seventy-five boxes sold—one hundred fifty dollars. Count it.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three hundred types of mussel, a third of the world’s total, live in the Smokies. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You glean people by the hundreds. Is that the future you mean?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Harry wouldn’t have been able to sleep even if he had been traveling on a bus that didn’t keep banging loudly and jumping a hundred miles at a time. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

To commit “a seven-three” was to use seven words when three would do, and a “ninety-nine one hundred” meant quitting on a nearly completed job. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

All his work since then had culminated in a factory that could irradiate two hundred tons of uranium at a time to produce a half pound of plutonium every two hundred days. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I can’t get him to clean his room, but he’ll clean a hundred tons of horse manure out of some monster’s stables?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I have a hundred and ten dollars, which isn’t that much, but it’ll have to work. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

For the last hundreds of miles I had avoided people. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ve never lost a hundred and fifty points in one go, though, have they?” said Harry miserably. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Humble, put back six buttons. Ebony, put back ten. Johnny, what’s going on, buddy? You have like two hundred buttons too many!” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I think the real reason I had girlfriends was because I didn't one hundred percent believe I was gay. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It responded quickly, while the creatures were still a few hundred yards away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I explained to a group of several hundred Africans, Indians, and Coloureds that volunteering was a difficult and even dangerous duty, as the authorities would seek to intimidate, imprison, and perhaps attack the volunteers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred yards away, Bud passes out paintball guns. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They acted like they hadn’t seen one the ’nother in a hundred years ’stead of just a minute or two. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

There were hundreds of Negroes surrounding me, they were hands in the fields, who chopped the cotton, who worked the roads, who sawed the lumber to make our houses. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“It was worth tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of dollars, and it was stolen!” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In Harlem hundreds of poor people invested their pennies, nickels, and sometimes dollars in the hope that they would hit it big. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

From the branches hang hundreds of wind chimes, which account for the tinkling I heard. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The five hundred or so people who had come out for the five-minute speech then left to go home, happy and satisfied. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boats got off cleanly at the start and stayed clustered together for the first hundred yards. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"I went to the warlocks hoping for answers, but instead they've left me with a hundred new questions." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I pulled my Swiss army knife out of my pocket and must have opened and closed it a hundred times. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what she meant at first—we were a hundred feet from the end of the wreck—but then I saw what she was running toward. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Curly raised the palms of his hands and said, “There you go. Each a them tires is worth a hundred and fifty bucks.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our house never did burst into flames, but the thermometer on the patio, hanging there in the direct sun, did climb to over a hundred degrees. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In interviews with one hundred residents of two Tallahassee, Florida, communities, researchers found that nearly every one of them had experienced or expected to experience the return of a family member from prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

"The Fashion Minister sent a hundred dresses. I advised him that I'd like for you to match the house, so he used the teahouse colors as inspiration." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“It's obvious that no one has been in that room for at least a hundred years,” the officer said to the soldiers. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

From her mother and father and back through her grandparents, I could sense a hundred years of anger and fear coming out toward me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meteor hit approximately fifty thousand years ago and weighed several hundred thousand tons! Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Cubbies hold food rations from floor to ceiling, enough for all of the Monitors for hundreds of years. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I pulled open his mouth and blew anyway, a dozen times, a hundred, pumping down on his chest with all my weight, eventually pounding on him as if he were solid ground. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Garretts’ dogs heard the noise first: the sound of metal touching metal, of one hundred hooves sending vibrations through the earth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three hundred years afterward the rising Toltec styled themselves its heirs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In 1869, after a huge riot involving several hundred inmates in which many inmates and one officer were killed, a law was passed prohibiting its further use. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Detroit has already seen a peaceful massing of more than a hundred thousand blacks—think about that. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was held August 28, 1963, attracting as many as three hundred thousand people to the nations capital. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He says, “So, here is an estimate. If we say Shayleen got here on October fifteenth. That means she has been here three hundred thirty-six days.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“My parents would say to do what they did: ditch journalism, get really into essential oils, buy a cabin in the Vermont wilderness, and own six hundred LL Bean vests that all smell like patchouli.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I have done this with over a hundred kids and no one—in all of those times—has ever been able to figure that out.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Our Khmer soldiers today killed five hundred Youns trying invade our country! The Youns have many more soldiers, but they are stupid and are cowards! One Khmer soldier can kill ten Youns!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their camels were dressed in blankets of a hundred different hues. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Facing charges of first-degree murder, George sat alone in front of an estimated crowd of fifteen hundred white people who had packed the courtroom and surrounded the building. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On the first warm day, approximately two hundred million mosquitoes decided to express this disagreement and came to call. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A little brother may live to be a hundred, but he will always be a little brother. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Fie returned for an ANC consultative conference in Johannesburg, which was attended by over fifteen hundred delegates from forty-five different regions, home and abroad. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Virchow had been dead for a hundred years, and only one full-length biography of him existed, of which Farmer read every page. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

At the end of June, a heat wave of a hundred degrees moves in and doesn’t budge. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“When children play outside,” the expert continued, “their hands pick up dirt, and with it, hundreds of microscopic parasites that enter their bodies through their mouths to live and thrive in their intestinal tract.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

A white woman from a poor rural Alabama town, Marsha had never been to New York, but she was about to be honored at a dinner with two hundred guests. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There is a flat place where the road first reaches the top of the hill—a stretch of about a hundred yards or so before it starts descending again, into the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He painstakingly searched for words like “hero,” “bravery,’’ and “rescue,” for all one hundred twelve names. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I watched the house numbers until we got to the hundreds. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Listen to Side B of my dad’s cassette of Missy Elliott’s excellent album So Addictive, which—because it would not eject from the cassette player—I’d already heard hundreds of times in my life. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I tried drawing the hundreds and thousands of wandering fingers together, focusing them into something sharp and lethal enough to penetrate his wall. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And every time it was like some part of her would bust in a hundred pieces. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The man who had been caught stealing shoes would get a hundred lashes. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's not so funny. It would be more scientific to try to define the case. It has been developing some three hundred years —" "Define? Hell, man, we know all that." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another hundred would get her all the way to California—all the way to Courtney Rutherford Hopkins, all the way home. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Next time he runs,” Luther told his wife, Helen, “bet a hundred dollars. It will be like taking candy from a baby.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other times he told a hundred years in one long narrative, blunt and without detail. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Last year, the final tournament saw a total of three hundred million viewers. Three hundred million! Mr. Tanaka must be proud.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He still had to bring water to Group E. Stanley could see them digging about two hundred yards away. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

"Please dig thirty centimeters and get soil samples. At least one hundred grams each. Very important is thirty centimeters down." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several hundred yards to my right, I see someone emerge from the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Baachan also obtained a little seaweed from a neighbor, as well as what looked like about a hundred tiny sesame seeds. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A hundred images came to me when I closed my eyes, things seen, things known, and things forgotten. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“We should call. We should call and be, like, hypothetically, if we knew where Pickett was the night he disappeared, how much would that be worth? Maybe not the full hundred thousand, but something.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Two hundred square meters of solar cells, with hydrogen fuel cells to store plenty of reserve. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if a hundred boats didn’t go out every day and come back empty. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the night, they dropped hundreds of leaflets at the University of Munich. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

So Turner sat at a small desk by the window—a window closed tightly and imperiously against sea breezes exiled by fate—and began the first hundred lines of the Aeneid. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I tried everywhere to find work, but for every job there were a hundred seekers. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The crowds gathered ten deep for one hundred feet in each direction, a few spectators reaching through the slats of the fence to stroke Seabiscuit’s chest as Smith cinched the girth on Woolf’s kangaroo-leather saddle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom just nodded her head as though she agreed one hundred percent with Mrs. Grantham and was pleased as punch that Mrs. Grantham was so, so...you know, so perceptive.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We settled on a buck a shirt for two hundred shirts, and after Hank saw our logo, he said in the name of community he’d print them up for free. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The Argo II was only a few hundred yards from the columns now. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This was Edward Payson Weston, who walked from New York to San Francisco in a hundred days. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

An author named Adelaide Hollingsworth chose to honor the fair with more than seven hundred pages of it, which she published early in the year under the title The Columbia Cook Book. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Within a few hundred years, the big men acquired *Here, as elsewhere in this book, I am being chronologically inexact. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“If Mr. Big Bucks Ballard said he gave me the signed baseball and a hundred dollars, then he’s a liar. You got that?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“If you turn it in for cash now, you’ll only get fifty-two dollars. If you hold on to it, in just a few years it will be worth a hundred dollars.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then he realized, first that the pipe might be in his pack but he had no leaf, and next that he was hundreds of miles from Bag End. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There were about one hundred men there, some coming from as far away as Pretoria. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the contributions of Leonardo would have been made a thousand years ago and those of Albert Einstein five hundred years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A great phonograph stands against the wall with hundreds of records lined up beside it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fair had become so intensely compelling that one woman, Mrs. Lucille Rodney of Galveston, Texas, walked thirteen hundred miles along railroad tracks to reach it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We laughed and at the same time said, “One hundred and eighty pounds.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

She might five to be a hundred, but the time would come when, wilt she or not, she must return to this house. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never been in Julian’s house, had never even seen it, though I assumed the rest of them had been there a hundred times. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Jews were randomly beaten and close to one hundred were murdered. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Two hundred fifty not to mention two solid hours of torment and anguish and let’s not forget Sandy Sterling. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And as we came down the back stretch and hit that final two hundred, I felt my legs start to stiffen. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

"Five hundred and thirty-three days to their mission?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A hundred dollars says the cook gets the runt!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Martin Luther King arrived at Selma’s Brown Chapel on the evening of January 2, 1965, greeted by an exuberant crowd of seven hundred singing, clapping would-be voters. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

If this man knew my loves, he’d run a hundred kilometers in the other direction. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But by the end of the war, well over a hundred women flew planes for Marina’s regiments. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We cleared out of the back seat of Dominick’s car and started off down a short wooded path that Fred and I walked a hundred times in daylight, but never crossed in the dark. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They were separated from our island by but two hundred yards of water—a channel scarcely sufficient to splash through as refreshment on a summer’s day. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

There must have been a hundred of them, all different. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Unless, that is, “the economy” is construed in a broader sense— as a means to build and maintain hundreds of prisons. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Two o’clock out in the city, and bells toll in a hundred churches. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The lowest step, where the stream collected before it tumbled down a hundred feet and disappeared into the rubbly desert, was a little platform of stone and sand. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mind dances with the thought of hundreds—maybe thousands—of leaflets scattered throughout Germany. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Years later a Washington coxswain would sum up the sentiment of hundreds of boys who felt his influence: “In his presence Washington crewmen always stood, for he symbolized that for which God’s children always stand.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Because the sheets of polar ice locked up huge amounts of water, sea levels around the world fell about three hundred feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The principal nodded slightly but gave his sternest look before asking for one hundred dollars. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“More than we have room for. About two hundred and fifty,” Zaman said over his shoulder. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Why would the Republic give you those wounds, Day? Why would they want to damage someone who got a perfect fifteen hundred on his Trial score?” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Andean textiles were woven with great precision—elite garments could have a thread count of five hundred per inch—and structured in elaborate layers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This city with its hundreds of automobiles, flashing lights, crowds, and noise frightened her. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

At the base of the cliffs, hundreds of men with sledgehammers and crowbars climbed over piles of fallen rock, loosening them for the front loaders. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Lena had been right—Dale had carved more than two hundred of them. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

People—they seemed to be in the hundreds— crowded to the windows and more screams erupted. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than two hundred of Holm’s fellow athletes signed a petition asking that she be reinstated. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We were at least two hundred yards above the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They tried the helipad first, then the mess hall and supply hootches, then they walked the entire six hundred meters of perimeter. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

American box turtles lived to be over a hundred, and they had excellent eyesight and senses of smell. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He clicked a knob and zoomed in to higher and higher magnifications until the hazy sea of green turned into a screen filled with hundreds of individual cells, their centers dark and bulging. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

With only about two hundred kids in our class, it wasn’t a difficult task to manage, and like I said, Cade Hernandez had the ability to make anyone do whatever he wanted. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

In all of Russia, it was estimated, a hundred thousand prisoners had TB, and thirty thousand had MDR. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The sound was like the beating of a great slow heart, and the oars moved at every stroke, a hundred men pulling as one. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In fact he sprinted out front, a hundred arms waving in panic. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There were three hundred wells, fifty thousand date trees, and innumerable colored tents spread among them. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For hundreds of years people in the Congo Valley spoke of this beautiful, strange beast. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got by between paydays by neglecting overdue bills and borrowing money from Robin, so twice a month, when a few hundred dollars went into my account, it was gone within hours. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“A hundred and fifty miles or so; we’ve come farther over worse ground. There are roads all the way; people will take us in; we may get a lift on a power-sledge.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ugly as it was, that smile brought back a hundred memories. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The altimeter calls out, “Two thousand six hundred meters.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Annabeth wanted to land the Argo II before those troops arrived, but the ground was still several hundred feet below. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Better than ever. And, Dad, that gyptian man said there was going to be more rain after this bit of sunshine, and then the biggest flood in a hundred years.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

If only we had seen it coming ... we might have been able to stop it, or at least slow it down; ... we might have been able to save at least a hundred million lives. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a hundred questions Kit dared not ask. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“When I finish my work on the survey,” Nat said, “I’ll have a hundred and thirty-five dollars. Could I invest that much in a venture, and have room for it?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew most regular humans couldn’t go past two hundred feet without crumpling like an aluminum can. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Shasta thought they took a long time going past, for though he had been talking and thinking about "two hundred horse" all day, he had not realized how many they really were. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“We must have used his fuse in one of our canisters. Just cut me a piece off that roll. Better make it good and long. Three hundred feet in the air is pretty high.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was packed with a hundred or more letters, all from my grandfather. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Marian would be competing with some three hundred other contestants, and Boghetti took special pains to get ready for her audition. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Charles was busy working on his species book—he had hundreds of pages written—though he still was in no rush to get it done. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

From here, we’d gather up all several hundred of our witnesses and roll on over to the reception. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Exactly three hundred years later, in 1919, the United States experienced more labor strikes in one year than in any other year in its history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

All I could think of was the old line from a hundred halfremembered stories: And Taborlin the Great said to the stone: “BREAK!” and the stone broke.... The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And then, without waiting for an answer, "Lord King—fly—Anvard—shut the gates—enemies upon you—Rabadash and two hundred horse." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The garrison numbered no more than a hundred men, so small a troop that they were lost in Harrenhal. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I nibble at my bottom lip and stare at the words “PSYCHIC” and “NO ADULTS” for what seems like a hundred years. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Another tried to push his brother—maybe they were brothers—out of the way so that he could have a bite of a dead bird that they were both competing with a hundred flies for. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We sought to train over one hundred thousand people to assist with voter education. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost two hundred tired, gaunt, downcast men stood holding their parachute packs in a somber and unstirring crowd outside the briefing room, their faces staring blankly in different angles of stunned dejection. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The guard was a hundred feet away, his back to me. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I can't even find the guy on Facebook, so clearly he has nothing great going on that he wants to brag about to hundreds of acquaintances. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the coming year, Dad would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars buying equipment and scouring the mountain for water. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They were married ten days later in the small Chinese city of Yixing, in front of over two hundred people. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

At the University of Washington and later at Seattle University, he immersed himself in anthropology, history, philosophy, and linguistics, accumulating hundreds of credit hours without collecting a degree. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

About a hundred more goblins were sitting on high stools behind a long counter, scribbling in large ledgers, weighing coins in brass scales, examining precious stones through eyeglasses. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

A hundred or so people slowly filed into the street. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I think there are like a hundred stories in the whole fandom. Abby and I were able to narrow it down to fifteen possibilities.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

So she asked what she should use for new heads, since the old ones were lost, and all the geese opened their hundred mouths and screamed...” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

There must have been a hundred cameras flashing and whirring. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

If the Foster clan doesn’t even have a hundred smackers sitting around a crummy Mellon Bank account, not even E.T.: Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And even if they were one hundred percent effective at sealing out the radiation, which is really unlikely, would we ever be able to leave this place? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Mvezo, however, was a place apart, a tiny precinct removed from the world of great events, where life was lived much as it had been for hundreds of years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

About two hundred thousand years ago, the people began migrating out from Africa and around the globe. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Consider a resident of Berlin, born in 1900 and living to the ripe age of one hundred. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was alarmed to see a few children pull up a log not one hundred feet from the pad, as if they meant to stay there. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“There are ... there are hundreds of Lannister guardsmen in this castle.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And right across the river are hundreds of tall buildings, some shooting straight, piercing the clouds. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Finally they made shore a few hundred yards further down. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was worth wasting a hundred or so of their highest-level avatars. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Not if I lived to be one hundred. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Five hundred and fourteen of them,” she replied. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The barren slope stretches for three hundred miles from the Brooks Range to the Arctic Ocean, and for more than eight hundred miles from the Chukchi to the Beaufort Sea. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Sunday afternoon, March 7, some six hundred people set out from Brown Chapel, walking two abreast in a long, orderly procession that stretched for several blocks. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve collected phones one hundred and twenty-seven times since school started. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Give . . . things . . . away?” he cried in the voice of a man one hundred years younger. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

About this time, Marian was invited to join the People’s Chorus, made up of a hundred voices recruited from black church choirs all over the city. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

For all the tantalizing and provocative character of the Viking results, I know a hundred places on Mars which are far more interesting than our landing sites. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two thousand seven hundred and nineteen miles by foot,” Malcolm says from the bed. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Those meetings introduced him to an even more promising pool of like-minded Christians, the New Canaan Group, a Friday morning prayer breakfast typically attended by more than a hundred investment bankers and other professionals. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He wrote fewer than a hundred words over the month that followed. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe it—he had just recited his well-rehearsed explanation of his disability like I had done a hundred times before. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Are there really seven hundred twelve? Is it the same amount every day or something?” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“I’d be surprised if we had fifteen hundred. Probably more like twelve hundred.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t noticed before, but a line of identical statues ringed the city at intervals of about a hundred yards. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

One of the most commonly used books in high school geometry classes makes use of more than a hundred axioms to prove a similar number of theorems! Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yeah, I was going to list every girl I could possibly remember, hundreds of them, all so incredibly hot in their own ways. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He had four hundred ewes due to lamb. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Among the strongest evidence for the last view are the nearly three hundred carved stone slabs at Monte Alban that depict slain, mutilated enemies: the rulers, Marcus believes, of communities conquered by Monte Alban. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“He just celebrated his three hundred and sixty-second birthday,” Edward said. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

If it had been necessary to do so, we would have driven the eight hundred miles from our old house to our new house straight through, without stopping at all. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Were the SS really going to leav e hundreds of prisoners behind in the infirmaries, pending the arrival of their liberators? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps as a result, every year more than a hundred Americans inadvertently turn their homes into gas chambers and execute themselves and their families by running generators and combustion heaters indoors. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. Carter's mother was nearly a hundred years old. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Auk IX took off with a satisfying hiss, but it quickly died and fell with a plop not more than a hundred feet from the pad. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The place was much too small to sleep two hundred men, so most would need to remain outside. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I sleep like the little white girl slept in that fairy tale for what feels like a hundred years. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The house may be two hundred years old or it may be older, built of brick, with a stone-faced front looking south toward the down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Parks walked out of the dim courthouse and into the cool, bright morning, she was surprised to find several hundred cheering supporters waiting for her. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Each of the hundreds of shiny baubles that hung on the tall Christmas tree caught the flickering light of the fire and reflected it in miniature, until the tree itself seemed to shimmer and glow. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

There was no end to the line of cars behind us, and up front there were hundreds more vehicles trailing the hearse. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Will and Lyra had said that the subtle knife was three hundred years old at least. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It had gone up to one hundred and five. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Horse Gate of Vaes Dothrak was made of two gigantic bronze stallions, rearing, their hooves meeting a hundred feet above the roadway to form a pointed arch. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Never mind a hundred enemies; he was disarmed by a single monk and beaten with his own sword. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I heard stories of men rowed a hundred miles when they had to, in worse weather than this, and without food or water. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Two hundred thousand visitors, many in tears, joined in. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As early as the beginning of 1941 the staff had expanded to nearly one hundred. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

If I hadn’t been so tired, I would’ve leaped another two .hundred feet. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I scrubbed one hundred attempts clean with my eraser, trying to get the right distance between the fins or the right amount of muscular girth. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Seven hundred,” cried Colonel, quickly pointing to the first bidder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He felt it best to be honest; what if he spoiled everything by turning up a hundred miles from where he was supposed to go? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Every moment of every video record was connected to a hundred others by different criteria—which meant that every connection Citra followed led her down a rabbit hole of virtual neurons. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Even if he drove off at one hundred miles an hour, she would hang on. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each barb had hundreds of little hooks or barbules on it, by means of which the barbs of the feather were held together. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hundreds and hundreds of footprints. Some guy driving a bulldozer discovered them by accident, and they built a whole museum around them.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

No one could tell her the worth of a daughter, so she set it at one hundred times the worth of a lamb. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Weese's women had twenty cloaks to mend, a hundred more to wash. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, man. Current ETA for basketball game on Sunday is fourteen hundred hours. How copy?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It had landed nose-first full bore against the only rock outcropping within a hundred yards. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were more than three hundred of us. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Neck: “My family has been in this country for over two hundred years. We built this place, fought in every war from the first one to the last one, paid taxes, and voted.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I lift my skirts and trail the group up a massive staircase, losing count after one hundred steps. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“But it’s certainly not worth five hundred pieces of gold. I’ll give you ten; it’s probably worth that.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Tsar Kazimir has commissioned hundreds of new churches across the kingdom.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“The whole thing would be hundreds of miles long. It’s all over town, in warehouses, silos, basements, and attics.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

On this morning the tide was low and most of the animals were far out, just hundreds of specks against the waves, yet the noise they made was deafening. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ninety-eight, ninety-nine, one hundred. But I didn’t want to sell Betsy to white people.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For hundreds of years after his death the sick and the maimed and the blind came for healing to his temples. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Human populations of only a few hundred people were unable to survive indefinitely in complete isolation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“A voice like yours,” he told her, “is heard once in a hundred years.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

It had carved wooden beams on the ceiling and wallpaper decorated with hundreds of birds. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And some four hundred young men, born into an America that is bursting with opportunity and promise, have ended their lives on Vietnam’s steaming soil. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Standing in that temple, staring into the fire that had been burning for hundreds of years, I felt the ghosts of my family all around me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

There was a gate at this edge of the camp; I could see it now that I was within a few hundred feet of it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It looked like an enormous auger shell, or a unicorn’s horn upthrust from the earth, and was said to stand at over six hundred feet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The American Friends Service helped us find a small house in Boyle Heights, another minority ghetto, in downtown Los Angeles, now inhabited briefly by a few hundred Terminal Island refugees. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels like a hundred years ago that I couldn’t meet her eyes, much less open my mouth. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A sphere two hundred light-years in radius contains 200,000 suns and perhaps a comparable number of worlds suitable for colonization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there wasn’t so much riding on it, if hundreds of people didn’t already feel like running to the city council to get an emergency resolution passed legalizing lynching, it would have been laughable. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well—I could get it for six hundred bucks. The ol’ people that owns it is flat bust an’ the ol’ lady needs an operation. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it was enough to keep everyone in a seat as they pondered what Vogel told them. "... and then mission would conclude with Earth intercept two hundred and eleven days later," he finished up. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If Trulz allows the game to continue after rules have been broken, he will not be paid a bonus of five hundred thousand dollars ” She didn’t look proud of this condition. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

James Garfield served just two hundred days as president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

One circuit of the cellar at ground level, one on the first gallery, half on the second, and on the two hundred and sixty-seventh morning, daylight in the Decanting Room. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like I had done a hundred pushups the day before. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was poked more times that she could count, and the X-rays soon numbered about a hundred. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure reads Jules Verne in the key pound, on the toilet, in the corridors; she reads on the benches of the Grand Gallery and out along the hundred gravel paths of the gardens. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Nearly fifty people had been killed and two hundred injured. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Two hundred steps they counted, broad and shallow; and at the top they found an arched passage with a level floor leading on into the dark. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They could barely find first base when the movie started, but a hundred minutes later, they were sliding onto home plate like World Series winners. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And what of the scientific analysis that said that the surface of the Getty kouros could only have aged over many hundreds or thousands of years? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Then they drive a few hundred yards, enough to build the base of a triangle, calculating distance all the way, and Werner switches on the primary receiver. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She had found a stack of sticky notes and priced items anywhere from one cent to three hundred thousand dollars. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The odds of winning the lottery were one in three hundred million. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The beach was nestled into the rocks, as if after hundreds of years of work the waves had succeeded in making themselves a little room to rest in. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leaves of the cottonwood trees that crowded the canyon caught reflections of the afternoon sun, hundreds of tiny mirrors flashing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Now listen to me. If you or any of your fly-infested friends come within a hundred yards of my parents again, I will make sure your boss never ever gets his prize." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

His textbook was first printed in 1472 and went through more than two hundred editions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I had asked Mr. Fenton about it and he said he wanted a hundred bucks because it had historic value. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Some nearby examples, tens or hundreds of millions of light-years away, are powerful sources of X-rays, infrared radiation and radio waves, have extremely luminous cores and fluctuate in brightness on time scales of weeks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bartley said that I was a hundred blocks away from the Dominican part of town. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The Department authorized use of the AR-15 rifle only up to a distance of about a hundred yards, be-cause accuracy deteriorated so much with the additional distance. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and the president have repeated this scene hundreds of times, with Lincoln responding in kind. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

About two hundred yards ahead of her, her son Lionel was sitting in the stern seat of his father’s dinghy. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Its tremendous chords held all the sorrow and all the strength of the people of the city. sang the hundreds of voices, so powerfully the air seemed to shiver. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

With faith in Operation Breakthrough, a hundred residents formed a new organization—the Tenants’ Club—to handle grievances with the DHA. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In Narnia the Beasts lived in great peace and joy and neither the Witch nor any other enemy came to trouble that pleasant land for many hundred years. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

It is one of the great sights of Christendom—hundreds of thousands of stones, perfectly hewn and fit together, shimmering in the sun like a waterfall on a cliff face. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Some days there were as many as a hundred, when the soldiers were disembarking. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We were thousands of miles from Long Island, hundreds of miles inland. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Five hundred gallons of water struck me like a great fist, knocking me back a step and soaking me through to the skin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But probably a hundred people from our grade applied to Georgia, and Abby’s friends with all of them. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He soared along the cliff and landed with a crash on a ledge about a hundred feet away. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“They stick a hundred- dollar fine on you for killing a gator. I’m telling you,” he laughed sourly, “they got all the loopholes plugged. There ain’t a way you can win in this state.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d gone from meeting hundreds of people at a gathering to a thousand or more. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Bletchley Park, the U.K.’s secret code-breaking center, was staffed with hundreds of mathematicians, linguists, and professors, and it had dedicated units that could solve Abwehr Enigma with pencil and paper alone. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Working in a giant tower with hundreds of people was almost beyond his imagination. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I cried for about two hundred hours. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tiger rises, six hundred glorious pounds of black, orange, and white. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He was on a pirate ship that raided ports up and down the eastern seaboard back in the early seventeen hundreds. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

But that took you three seconds to say, so you’re really on two thousand seven hundred forty-nine. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“It took months of walking, hundreds of miles bumping along in the backs of mule carts. But in the end ...” He made an expansive gesture with both hands. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The remaining eight hundred or so are refugees in District 13—which, as far as I’m concerned, is the same thing as being homeless forever. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“We have more than three hundred thousand specimens from one hundred and sixty-six countries,” he said. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Erin and I grab our basketballs out of the garage, and on my backyard hoop, we each shoot one hundred free throws. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had thought that men would sing of him for a hundred years and tell tales of his daring. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The present generation of particle accelerators can collide particles at energies of about one hundred GeV, and machines are planned that would raise this to a few thousand GeV. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two hundred and ten at the moment,” said Luna. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was black, with a hundred men and women dressed in white on the cover. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Neither China nor North Korea released figures, but estimates of these economic migrants ranged from tens of thousands to four hundred thousand. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

A hundred mad ideas pounded through his brain, each one wilder than the last. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He looked up and saw them—hundreds and hundreds of tiny flecks of light, strewn like spilled salt across the blackness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Once you have three people you may as well have a hundred. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Moch yelled again, “One length to make up—six hundred meters!” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Tyrion saw more ’snappers sleeping in the slips where half a hundred ships might once have docked. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Once belonged to the queen of Spain,” he said, “about four hundred years ago.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The air was filled with the buzz of a hundred students at recess, punctuated by yells, laughter, and, occasionally, Mrs. Fields’s piercing whistle. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Everyone also received about four hundred dollars in small bills for pocket change. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“I weigh a hundred and forty. Whatever you weigh, that’s how many you got to kill to leave early.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stinky place: Nothing smells like a sheep barn with four or five hundred sheep crammed in. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Ivory Christian acted like a bride at the wedding, each step slow and measured, luxuriating in the applause and the hundreds of eyes beckoning to him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They called them that because ... well, they had a hundred hands. They were elder brothers of the Cyclopes.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was as if a hundred razors were inside my skull, clattering and rattling around. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I am hundreds of years old, and she is just a puny few-years-old people. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you come in here giving them away? Didn’t you tell us to sell them to the cannery and keep whatever comes from that? Now what you want is one hundred thirty.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were shoes, as well — satin slippers in the same ice blue — and a mask shaped like a butterfly, embedded with what seemed to be hundreds of tiny diamonds and sapphires. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forks so small that they disappeared in Nailer’s hand, spoons so big and deep they could have been used as ladles at Chen’s grub shack where he served a hundred head at a time. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Isabella, you are absolutely, one hundred percent perfect! It’s us, not you.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“They don’t need to worry about me and my overhalls long as Ah still got nine hundred dollars in de bank. Tea Cake got me into wearing ’em—following behind him. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Fourth term of my senior year, I only applied to one job, but it was a good one, being six hundred miles away from Mississippi. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They had not, in life and in death, been married for over two hundred and fifty years for nothing. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Soon the bus is rolling into a place where there are big houses, motor cars, horses pulling carts, people on bicycles and hundreds walking. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I wish the six hundred Link Rowley worshippers in this school could see their Big Man on Campus practically groveling with gratitude. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

When Dutch colonists landed at the southern tip of Africa over three hundred years ago, they encountered an indigenous people known as the Khoisan. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He’d put on a couple of hundred pounds since I’d seen him last, which of course was the whole point of the feedlot. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Every hundred paces along the path, they come across a big steel cap beneath which a soldier would direct cannon fire at whomever was trying to take the hill. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

One hundred fifty a day sought him out; his five assistants each saw thirty patients a day. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I overheard people saying that the cost of the entry fee was the equivalent of three hundred leones. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And it wasn’t as tall as Mount Rainier, which loomed over Seattle, about two hundred miles to the north of Cedar. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

This meant that I would be the highest-ranking cadet in the entire corps of over seven hundred people. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But it was large and long enough to seat two hundred, and half again that many if they crowded close. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Wilcox's lost his wallet, right, with hundreds of quid in it!” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was the biggest landslide in human history and carried enough material to bury the whole of Manhattan to a depth of four hundred feet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You just go east. You keep going east until you get to Avalon. She lives near a hundred and fourteenth.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

For hundreds of feet in all directions, sand was melted into a greenish glass. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Did you know," Matilda said suddenly, "that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of six hundred and fifty times a second?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Underland was no secret to the Native Americans, who had made periodic trips below the earth for ritual purposes for hundreds of years. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two hundred feet below, I could just make out Andy’s motionless form slumped at the foot of the incline. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Over the past 100 million years as it has drifted north toward Asia, its leading edge has sunk by some six hundred feet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Thirteen ships... that’s not enough. A hundred ships might not be enough.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In 1935, that number drops by almost six hundred thousand, and then, within a decade and a half, the number is back over three million again. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A gigantic leopard that moves silently despite its size and whose breath causes disease virulent enough to eliminate entire villages, it has never yet been subdued by fewer than a hundred skilled wizards working together. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The elder Andrews was a prosperous farmer; he had not much money in the bank, but he owned land valued at approximately two hundred thousand dollars. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now that I have him coming so beautifully, God help me endure. I'll say a hundred Our Fathers and a hundred Hail Marys. But I cannot say them now.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who could add up while yelling themselves hoarse knew that Gryffindor now had four hundred and seventy-two points — exactly the same as Slytherin. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The other man was too near, seventy-five yards, a hundred at best, out there in the fog, his motor cut. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

About the hundreds and hundreds of people who didn’t make it out of the water. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s real literature, the kind of human story people will read in two hundred years,” she said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At home, he knew the American public would be vehemently against putting even more American lives at risk by sending in several hundred thousand more American troops. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The summit was still a hundred yards above. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Forks High School had a frightening total of only three hundred and fifty-seven — now fifty-eight — students; there were more than seven hundred people in my junior class alone back home. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A crowd of men was gathering now, a hundred or more. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my mom got him to the emergency room and the nurse took his temperature, it was a little over a hundred. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the meeting began, more than three hundred people had crowded into the church. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Right now, probably closer to two hundred—why?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“With ten thousand of them and a few hundred of us? Are you insane?” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, the lethal airborne dose was fairly small: as small as five hundred infectious virus particles. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Racing in 1919 and 1920, this immense red animal so devastated his competition that he won by as many as one hundred lengths and set numerous speed records. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about six hundred pages long, but I was already halfway through. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of those are brownstones or small apartment buildings that are over a hundred years old. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“There’ll be more money coming. At least one hundred dollars to each of you. And who knows? Maybe there’ll be more.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Three hundred yards to the west I was shivering uncontrollably in my tent—even though I was zipped into my sleeping bag, and wearing my down suit and every other stitch of clothing I had. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

We put a hundred lire on number five to win and a hundred to place and then had another whiskey and soda apiece. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

There were hundreds of school campuses here on Ludus, spread out evenly across the planet’s surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

At first the prices had been so modest—a few hundred dollars per piece—that Mia sometimes had to take on two jobs, or even three. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So I just enjoyed the feeling and watched the once amorphous student body separate itself into hundreds of individuals. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

And Char was hundreds of miles away and mustn’t know of my troubles anyway. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

About a hundred yards from Booth’s camp, Jones dismounted, walked slowly, and whistled the secret signal as he came within earshot of the assassins. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were hundreds of details to hammer out, but the basic design was set. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beach was only a few hundred yards away when the sphere turned lava-hot and the helicopter exploded, shooting flames in every direction. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Dragon must have been in this forest for a hundred years. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

When we’re a few hundred yards away from the room, I yank my arm away and stop. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

That chunk of coal was once a green plant, a fern or reed that lived one million years ago, or maybe two million, or maybe one hundred million. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Martyn Rivers had made his camp in the shell of a shattered holdfast, beside a roofless stable and a hundred fresh graves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They broke us up, made us form a line, and led us towards a building a few hundred yards away. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred minutes and there was still a lot of water in the cabin—the boat didn’t even feel much lighter, still lay heavily in the shallow swells. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need you to give us one hundred and ten percent in there, li’l brother!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

My next birthday, one hundred and two, I will have been alive in three different centuries. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man, a grandmother, a baby, so many people, hundreds of them, a gibberish of different words that are all the same because they all mean the same thing. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I wonder if, right this minute, all those hundreds of miles away, Philbert’s fingers might be tingling. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Off the starboard side, now about a hundred yards away, was a small, uninhabited island no more than five acres. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Second slid her sword a hand-span out of its sheath, her gaze passing over the copper-colored steel, which had been inscribed with hundreds of words, swooping up and along the blade in perfect spirals. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She was taking with her what seemed to be hundreds of books and notepapers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course I knew. We own — we used to own — more than a hundred. How else could you work a plantation?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The air around her was empty where hundreds of shadowy souls had frenzied just seconds earlier. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Every one of the five hundred seats before her is full. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And here we were facing death together in a hundred square feet of boat. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And how did you get ‘five hundred’ from Indiana?” she asked. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Captain Newport also takes all of the food stores except fourteen weeks’ worth of wheat and barley for the one hundred or so of us colonists. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I had not advanced another two hundred yards when, to my inexpressible terror, amazement, and indignation, I again beheld Trabb’s boy approaching. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mom said that it had been built almost a hundred years ago as a fort. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were more than two hundred people sheltering in the woods, including some wounded who had dragged themselves in. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There were cages, hundreds of them, stacked like crates. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Help yourself, Tom,” said Hepzibah, “I know how you love my cakes. Now, how are you? You look pale. They overwork you at that shop, I’ve said it a hundred times...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

From the forests and fisheries and farmlands of an Arcadian state dawned a powerful military capital, a nerve center that had welcomed residents by the hundreds of thousands since the start of the conflict. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Upper California had not been in Mexico for over a hundred years. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

This man must have hundreds of friends who come visit him. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“About three hundred years ago, some Rusty figured a way to engineer the species to adapt to wider conditions. She messed with the genes to make them propagate more easily.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Worried, haggard, fitfully puffing on a cigarette, Bernabe Montoya separated himself from the group of about a hundred onlookers and trudged over to the state cops. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Well, I admit, there are a couple of quite decent items here this time. So I’ll offer you,” he opened his eyes again, "one hundred thousand lire. And I'm still doing you a favor.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

With him had come a long tail of retainers: knights, squires, lesser lords and ladies, heralds, musicians, even a juggler, all aglitter with banners and surcoats in what seemed half a hundred colors. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The camp store loaned me one hundred dollars in mortal money and twenty golden drachmas. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It takes almost a hundred and sixty-five years for Neptune to complete one orbit around the sun!” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Dame school ended in mid-August, and a hundred new tasks waited to fill the hours. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

For a hundred years, any sign of black progress in the South could trigger a white reaction that would invariably invoke Confederate symbols and talk of resistance. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Though precisely the same situation obtained for Jefferson, as well—he owned about two hundred slaves and ten thousand acres, a goodly portion inherited from his father-in-law—Adams never confronted him so directly. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He handed Armpit a hundred dollars but wasn’t finished yet. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

And I included only those books over a hundred pages in length. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that point it was only a few hundred miles from the Inka frontier. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There weren’t enough gravediggers to bury the hundreds dying each week. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

No, there had to be thousands in all this vast white mass, of which hundreds were visible just from the track. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I'd grown up with the tales of Gilgamesh—there had to be hundreds. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

By six hundred meters, they were a length and a half back. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

All those people, the hundreds of wounded, the relatives, the medics from 13, are no more. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Which it did, there was no denying it, the spotty dark glass shattered like a kaleidoscope and refracting the room into a hundred pieces. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It seemed to say a hundred miles an hour. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reaches the end of the street, scribbles something on a pad, turns one hundred and eighty degrees, and walks back. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It looked as if nobody had lived there for a hundred years. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The shield had shown us at least three hundred enemies on the way. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The King of England painfully climbed the two hundred and eight steps which led to Merlyn’s tower room, and knocked on the door. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you believe I only have a hundred and thirty-eight miles left? Nine days.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They usually travelled back and forth across the same home territory, an area of between several dozen and many hundreds of square miles. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he places it on the microscope, his fingers are careful but certain; they are the movements of someone who has performed the same action hundreds of times. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

At 2100 hours they went over the seawall along with three hundred other men. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The folk of Winterfell had seen this sight half a hundred times, but doubtless it looked queer to the guests, some of whom were more curious than polite. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to! You take four hundred dollars to Ebgard and pay off the claim. It’s yours, right and proper. Then you come back and I forgive the loan.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A hundred geysers shot into the air along with clods of dirt, pieces of pipe, and very heavy sprinkler heads. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

About a hundred years ago, someone added a wraparound porch with enough ginger-bread trim to look like a lace collar. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll take our chances of becoming ‘contaminated’ with a hundred thousand ‘aliens,’” one reporter wrote, “if they produce only one William Frederick Friedman in a generation!” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My dad giving me a hundred dollars just when I needed money. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I receive hundreds of small white envelopes each week, some delivered by hand, and there is extra money inside them lately, money for Mr. Fermin. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Well, think of that. And they do say that Calormen is hundreds and thousands of miles away, right at the world's end, across a great sea of sand." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

In the summer of i960 the refuge staff picked up hundreds of dead and dying birds at Tule Lake and Lower Klamath. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was a roar of noise from the hundreds of chatting, laughing students and the clang of utensils. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately, and in every instance, they will return to them, just as Pisa did after one hundred years of being held in servitude by the Florentines. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

I like walking alone In the park, A stick in my hand, Imagining a hundred arrows In my side. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are hundreds of different tribes in Congo. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A total of three hundred years in and out of prison. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Ashore, the arms of the great trebuchets rose one, two, three, and a hundred stones climbed high into the yellow sky. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the hallway there were a few hundred fans waiting. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mind missing sleep for a hundred dollars,” she says, waving the money in my face. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

We all saw what Vonetta could see from hundreds of feet away. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The Yao arrived in Malawi more than a hundred years ago from across the lake in Mozambique. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I’m sure there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of teens who received the alert today, but there are only eighty-nine registered Deckers between the ages of sixteen and eighteen online right now. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You said we needed a hundred and thirty dollars,” he told her. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She picked up a hundred dollar bill and turned the foreign object over in her hands. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

More than five hundred teachers, students, parents, and friends attended. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chain-link fences, topped by razor wire, had been erected into a long, sixteen-foot-high cage extending about a hundred yards into the lot. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I knew the words and melodies of hundreds of songs—a symphony exploding inside my head with no one to hear it but me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

There were two barrels for five hundred people, so we learned to go to the latrines during the day as much as we could. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Never mind that the bell has been rung just once in three hundred years," Patrek had told Theon the day after, as he shared his father's cautions and a jug of green-apple wine. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The fire broke out in the cupola at the top of the central tower but was controlled quickly and caused only a hundred dollars in damage. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A hundred dollars would give me, temporarily, more freedom of movement than I had ever known in my life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything within tells me it’s not a good idea, but I actually feel like I haven’t eaten in four hundred years. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The difference between consecutive positions on these lists may represent several hundred or even several thousand children. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was a hundred yards long—quite enough for twelve. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rallies over a hundred volunteers, Rae and me included, to go around the city hand-delivering, you guessed it, hamburgers and donated blankets to the local homeless. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

There were perhaps a hundred in all, in ragged rows of pale gold down which Betty’s metal spatula dug and scraped and turned. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, many family members had fled New Orleans and were now living hundreds of miles away. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I says that old rattletrap’s just an eyesore, yet you’ll keep it standing there in the carriage house a hundred years just so that boy can ride to the cemetery once a week. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Downtown, hundreds of people were walking to the Superdome carrying coolers, blankets, suitcases. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He’s always talking about how many links we have: how many thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Two decades later, though more than thirty thousand blacks were living in Chicago, only five hundred had jobs in the meatpacking industry. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Three weeks later another storm destroyed eight hundred feet of the south wall of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The six survey sites from which the summit had been triangulated were in northern India, more than a hundred miles from the mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Most jockeys took a more straightforward approach: the radical diet, consisting of six hundred calories a day. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, his first scene with Bobby, when the shirts come off, causes the same reaction it had back at Truman, only louder—with perhaps six hundred high school girls shrieking. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Small wonder that it had been hundreds of years since they last threatened the Vale with anything beyond an occasional raid. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But I still don’t think I need to be here, ’specially at almost a hundred dollars an hour. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just two days later, the good feelings evaporated when immigrant workers at the nearby Argo corn refinery walked out and six hundred black nonunion men marched in to take their places. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was said that he was more than two hundred years old, and that he had discovered the Philosopher’s Stone and the Elixir of Life. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hundred feet below, the white hull of the clipper was visible through the greenery. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred pool sticks of different lengths stand at attention in their cradles on the walls. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roamer yells about fifteen hundred expletives as Charlie sends it flying right back. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dusk was settling in when we reached Birch Spring Gap Shelter, standing on a slope beside a muddy stream a couple of hundred feet downhill from the trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were hundreds of magazines, all with exciting, colorful covers, pretty girls, beautiful clothing, and lots of bare skin. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be looking at everything around him through some sort of shimmering, transparent barrier, like a heat haze, which made the enclosure and the hundreds of faces around him swim strangely. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Our prayers are answered and all the prayers of those hundreds of little boys at the Confraternity. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The voice on the radio droned on: “February twenty- first—one hundred and forty-one. February twenty-second—seventy- four. February twenty-third—two hundred and six.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The next weekend, the largest crowd that had ever come to Cape Coalwood showed up, nearly three hundred milling people, even a few from the Welch side of the county. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The odds were as high as a hundred to one that he’d win. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the other, fainter galaxies must be more distant still, a hundred billion of them, sprinkled through the dark to the frontiers of the known Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I blink a few hundred times at the invasion of light. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It happened to us when we were a few hundred feet shy of the summit of Little Haystack Mountain. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It's like they took the whole huge, black Sears Tower, broke it up into short chunks, painted it with friendlier suburban colors, and then spread it out over two hundred acres of farmland. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred leagues from end to end, and seven hundred feet high. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some of the trees were enormous, and she liked to pause to imagine how long they had been growing—probably hundreds of years, for some of them. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I have to take a shot and find the same bravery hundreds of thousands of Deckers before me have found. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

These perky, upright birds had been lost from the ice islands of Antarctica hundreds of thousands of years ago and, unable to swim back, had adjusted to the tropical heat. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“You’d be correct. You scored a four out of one hundred. And that’s probably due to a few good guesses, am I right?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The first of a batch of two hundred and fifty embryonic rocket-plane engineers was just passing the eleven hundred metre mark on Rack 3. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cast about in the fog until she caught its hazy glow no more than a hundred yards away. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dragon Ladon was writhing now, a hundred heads whipping around, tongues flickering and tasting the air. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

There were hundreds, perhaps thousands, of cases against the city, the federal government, FEMA, police officers, the Army Corps of Engineers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A crevasse could be only three or four feet across at the top but hundreds of deadly feet deep. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Though the horse was not going to race in the state, carloads of fanatically devoted admirers drove hundreds of miles and swamped the town just to see him gallop in his morning workouts. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gypsy moth, a native of Europe, has been in the United States for nearly a hundred years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The best part of the evening was supposed to be what came last—a private party being held for a couple hundred of our friends back at the White House. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There were two hundred boys in the dormitory. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the water, there appears to be a city of houseboats with many hundreds of them docked closely together. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, I’m not one hundred percent sure, but definitely ninety-nine percent sure.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

At eight hundred feet Henry slowed down the helicopter screws, and they hung for a minute or two poised above the fading landscape. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I believed that hundred dollars was a sign from God. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Volantenes were fond of boasting that the hundred isles of Braavos could be dropped into their deep harbor and drowned. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The view was okay, but if there’s anything I like less than a confined space, it’s a confined space six hundred feet in the air. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A few hundred miles south, Tom Smith sat in the sun by the barns at Hollywood Park. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A third rail ran along the line, providing nine hundred volts of electricity to the trains. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Thirty-five hundred enemy soldiers had died, including many of their high officers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s like she know you from five hundred miles away.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Your YouTube subscriber count is at three hundred and sixteen, and growing. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The longest stretch, atop the hillside, runs roughly parallel to the riverbank, a few hundred feet below; extensions at either end angle down the hillside. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘That’s right. For hundreds of years, the gods tried to separate us to keep us from fighting. But there’s a better kind of peace - cooperation.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

By summer’s end we have nearly five hundred colonists to feed and house. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

"I know. You need hundreds of petals to make a scent, ideally thousands, but I had to try, for Mo." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“A hundred reasons!” she said loudly, striding out from behind the sofa to slam her glass upon the table. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was fairly quiet on our sector, so the quartermaster who remained in the rear had requisitioned the usual quantity of rations and provided for the full company of one hundred and fifty men. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first I thought it was White Noise; all at once, the building’s security alarms, intercom system, and televised displays went off, a hundred different voices screaming at us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

That was correct, even if you had cooked a hundred chickens. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At sixteen hundred the pace began to flag again, so the slave trader invited some of the buyers to come up for a closer look at the dwarfs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I did not tell her about the five hundred dollars or my secret plan for that money. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Each of these Cogs is laser marked with initials and dates spanning hundreds of years. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She had refused to charge that much but did take another five hundred as a deposit. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I do not have a hundred. But you have three dragons. Grant me one, for all my kindnesses. You will still have two, and thirty ships as well." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The study reviewed seven hundred thousand criminal cases that were matched by crime and criminal history of the defendant. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When they got to the shell house, they found hundreds of exuberant fans jockeying for space on the wobbly float and milling around in front of the building, hooting and hollering. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“That, too. I can do both. You can’t play baseball forever. I’m going to hit nine hundred home runs and get into the Hall of Fame.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Carl to collect two hundred and fifty dollars every six months, June 30 and December 31, with six and a half percent interest figured annually. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mostly, she looked like a hundred other girls in school, except for two things. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Inside the penitentiary, one hundred civilians have won the right to watch Lincoln’s killers die. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“There is a one hundred percent chance that she has no good reason to talk to me,” I said. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“From the pyramids. Call it a blood tax. I will have a hundred pieces of gold from every pyramid for each freedman that the Harpy’s Sons have slain.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Standing beside the hackberry shrubs with hundreds of empty desiccated cocoons still clinging to their branches and a carpet of butterfly corpses under her feet, La Llorona did not look anything like a malevolent specter. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She looked over Peaches’ shoulder to me, the big sad dark eyes looking like they were a hundred years old. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drive home was only a mile; it felt like a hundred. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We saw hundreds of dead bodies on our way out of Sierra Leone. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just two hundred and six more items to go. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even a few hundred isn’t enough to call it an epidemic,” he said. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rosy golden glow filled the salon, and Aru had a strange vision of someone gathering up the first light of dawn in hundreds of buckets. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Over there,” she says, pointing about one hundred feet from where Charlie sits. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It saved them the trouble of opening several hundred books a day and pulling several hundred cards from as many envelopes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not know how you lay out orderly plans for this kind of activity, but I suppose you could find out by looking through the disorderly records of the past hundred years. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the car was passing the other side of the barn and the field beyond, views Luke had never seen, though he'd lived his entire life within a hundred yards of them. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And there are hundreds of kids here just roaming around unchecked?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Like we said. I said we’d be gone overnight—said we was going to visit your sister in Fort Scott. On account of she was holding money for you. Fifteen hundred dollars.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The price of the vouchers goes from two hundred dollars to three hundred to five hundred dollars, and still no one is willing to surrender their ticket. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

About a half-mile down Lacks Town Road, Cliff had me park in front of a cinder block and pressboard house that couldn’t have been more than three hundred square feet inside. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I'm just one guy, so it'll last me three hundred days. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Tobias is five foot ten and probably like two hundred pounds, so he could pummel anyone’s opinions into the sidewalk. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“For two hundred and sixteen rings, I’ve sat on my roots and listened to people hope for things. And a lot of times, those wishes never happened, I’m guessing.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They had been murdered, murdered by the most feared Dark wizard for a hundred years, Lord Voldemort. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

"The guy had a hundred palaces and solid-gold toilets. Statues on every street corner. He lived the life of an emperor. Or a god." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I was hundreds of miles from landfall, if not over a thousand miles. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A hundred years of alcohol leaving a body by any means possible is not a pretty sight.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“And then I need you all to line up, from numbers fifty-one through one hundred like Beckany instructed outside.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It feels like two comets have just collided headfirst into each other, and the aftershock of two hundred earthquakes rolls through my chest. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Now it is one hundred square miles of grassland and trees, a lake, and some little rivers. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Other dark forms were clustering in the fog, and the jeering screams of a hundred more harpies sounded from farther along the shore. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I again felt rather like an individual of but average gastronomical powers sitting down to feast alone at a table spread with provisions for a hundred. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then she cooked, using her daily ration of seven hundred grams of corn meal to make porridge in the one pot she owned. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Day One, today. We leave Flint and drive for three hundred miles in about five or five and a half hours, that will take us to Cincinnati.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, everyone also knew that there had been no Amyr in three hundred years. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We emerge from the ground a few hundred yards from the glass building above the Pit, close to the train tracks. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I pushed through a crowd of monsters and jumped off the side of the ship—toward the water a hundred feet below. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Several hundred high school students packed the room, waiting for my presentation. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was perfectly flat and smooth and white, and about a hundred yards across. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They stretched up fifty, maybe even a hundred feet before the first branches. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And number one hundred,” Mr. D says, relief in his voice. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without the use of his weapons. Though I’m sure one would be quite sufficient.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Instead, after a couple hundred yards, I sink to the ground and sit there, looking into the distance. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They stopped at a hundred miniature stores with crooked floors so Poppy could greet the owners, kiss-kiss on both cheeks, introduce the family, and be offered coffee or tea, though he kept saying no. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

From far off, it looks like hundreds of beetles ringed around a single dome of light. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to see parallels: The Africans wanted to be free from British rule, just as colonial Americans did two hundred years earlier. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A bunch of kids were heading for the gym, and soon I was just one of three hundred fourteen-year-olds all crammed into the bleachers. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Why me? I mean, there’s got to be a hundred kids in this town you could have asked.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But they would be carrying more than six hundred pounds of weapons and supplies, and they could expect no help along the way. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already there are hundreds of posts and videos. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He had a negative balance of more than a hundred dollars. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, Jenny and Bill made up for any neglect on the part of the big boys a hundred times or more. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He realizes that he has not asked the price, but without a thought he signs the receipt for two hundred dollars. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, more breaks in the walls led to other paths, and farther down, maybe a hundred yards or so away, the straight passage came to a dead end. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But that's okay, because when Coach blew the whistle, I kept up with Lu on the one hundred. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She appeared only a few hundred yards away, through a swirl of mist and smoke and water. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I spring up, upsetting a box of a hundred pencils, sending them scattering around the floor. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I offer you eight hundred for him, sir, before the test, sir; eight hundred just as he stands.” The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once you got that old, you might as well be ninety-eight or a hundred and eight. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I sank through the murk, sure that I was about to end up embedded in a hundred feet of mud and lost forever. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since I turned a hundred and been in the news, life has been busy. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The surface shimmered maybe a hundred and fifty feet above. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Whiteman, who was part Indian, was fascinated by Indian lore and had been following the archaeological excitement in Folsom, two hundred miles to the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A hundred meters away, Tally saw the hoverboards cruising across the compound, called by her crash bracelets. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Hold on, Mama. I’m still not one hundred percent sold on the ceremony,” Uncle Jet said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I handed the old man a hundred thousand Afghanis, or the equivalent of about three dollars. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

To solve the problem, rail workers and strong bystanders unhooked the cars from the engine and pushed them the last few hundred yards to the side porch. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Not about the hundreds of mind games I watched them play on the PSFs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After we leave Knoxville we’ve got about three hundred miles to go. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We later heard that Major Knowlton of the rebels had led two hundred men to Charlestown to assault it; they making their way across the mill-dam. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

One day, I was walking up Main Street, caught up in my own little contest of tossing a hedge apple into the air and catching it, hoping to count to two hundred catches without dropping. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We only have a little over six hundred students,” the principal reasons. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Jeez oh man, nothing like turning fifty to make you feel a hundred years old. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gourd leaves that yesterday drooped down like a hundred little half-closed umbrellas were now freshened with dew. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There aren’t any ten dogs that are worth five hundred dollars.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The numbers filled his head: there were a hundred thousand cars lost in the flood. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Chicago takes up about two hundred twenty-seven square miles,” says Zoe. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A hundred smithereens of darkness, they broke apart and re-formed and siphoned themselves into a little typhoon that swept down toward the rooftops of Weep, whirling and wheeling on soft twilight wings. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Another kid thanked me for his two hundred dollars. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Okay, well, how ’bout you meet me in the kitchen at twenty-two hundred hours.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He got about a hundred yards before he fell down. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the last hundred years, there has been a steady series of events on the labor front. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Below, on the overcrowded sidewalks, more than two and a half million people, armed with beach chairs, picnic baskets, and thermoses, solemnly watched hundreds of floats pass by. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

More than one hundred thousand Krahn refugees flooded into neighboring Ivory Coast, even as Doe’s Krahn soldiers committed atrocities of their own. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

‘If Saruman had heard it, he would be a hundred miles away by now, even if he had had to run on his own legs,’ said Pippin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“You need to stir one hundred times. One hundred is best.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After leaving the Pillars of Hercules—unscathed except for a few coconuts lodged in the hull’s bronze plating—the ship traveled by air for a few hundred miles. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s the motel. About a hundred yards downhill.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Neither we nor the sledge broke through at all, and the sledge pulled so light that it was hard to believe we are still hauling about a hundred pounds apiece. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, the only true thing he said to us was that there have been stories about extra-powerful wands for hundreds of years.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Okay, first of all, it wasn’t two hundred and fifty dollars. It was on sale.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t explain why I wanted to drive one hundred twenty-five miles to ask an old man with memory problems what he and my mom knew about the white sharks coming to Massachusetts. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Many hundreds arrived too late for us to seat them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pigeons can fly hundreds of miles in one day,” Scipio answered. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the commandos executed them by machine-gun fire, killing hundreds of men, women, and children at a time. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The newsfeeds were airing live coverage of the hundreds of large-scale battles breaking out on Frobozz, around nearly every instance of the “dwelling long neglected.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The first result, though, is a YouTube page called Stella Grant’s Not-So-Secret CF Diary, filled with at least a hundred videos dating back six years or so. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

To the west again was a shallow, dry downland combe, perhaps four hundred yards across and overgrown with weeds and rough, yellowing summer tussocks. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when they looked down, they saw hundreds of fish looking back up. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The five hundred dollars Mama owes the bank makes it worse, looming over me like a giant spider spinning a web around my family. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

There’s a soundboard that has hundreds of buttons, gigantic speakers in the walls, a large window that reveals a recording booth on the other side. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Enrique fears that he will become like the hundreds of glue- sniffing children he sees downtown. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

One visionary put forth a tower five hundred feet taller than the Eiffel Tower but made entirely of logs, with a cabin at the top for shelter and refreshment. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“We got one up to nearly eight hundred feet. Next time, we’ll bust a thousand, I know it!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s an auditorium. It’s pretty big, seats about two hundred, maybe. They’re all down at the bottom watching some guy on the stage.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There was a Japanese outpost at Cape Torokina nearby, but our scouts thought it had only about a hundred men. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cissy said she thinks there’s about six hundred people in the street now just milling around,” Mrs. Baylor said behind me. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any sense of isolation she may have had withered and died in the presence of some two hundred sinners earnestly requesting to be plunged beneath a red, redeeming flood. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“There are six hundred things I’m not telling you,” Jule said. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Over a hundred glass tables surrounded the rig, arranged in a large oval around it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

"I put more trust in these ten fingers than in a hundred swords." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there are likely hundreds of other people imprisoned after an evaluation by "Dr. Seger" whose convictions have never been reviewed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I said, “I took my temperature and it’s one hundred point seven degrees.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And in this corner, weighing two hundred and ninety-five pounds, from Indian Lake, Pennsylvania...it’s the Earthquake, doing his signature move.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Think of that distance: fourteen billion times all those hundreds of millions of miles. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was the one teeny-tiny reason he’d been excited to move precisely nine hundred and one miles away from Florida to Washington, DC. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I marched from Connecticut to Boston with about twenty other men from my town. It took a week—a hundred miles. My feet nearly fell off.” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

With each desperate grab, hundreds of tiny thistles pierced his fingers. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

We were more than a hundred yards from the docks when Mom stopped the car. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

And I guess I do, because the next thing I know, I'm driving this dune buggy at about a hundred miles an hour across a burning desert that looks like the surface of the moon. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In gematriya, the words ‘this world’ come out one hundred sixty-three, and the words ‘the world-to-come’ come out one hundred fifty-four. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I just need six hundred dollars. Double your money, guaranteed. And I won’t be taking out any taxes.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

"Who cares how much pickled cod they ate six hundred years ago?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But when the category is "Male or Family,” we have to stop and think—even if it’s only for a few hundred milliseconds—before we decide what to do with a word like "Merchant.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In the stern the net slipped free from the drum and rolled over the fairleads easily toward the sea until at last the whole of it was out of the boat, three hundred fathoms long. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a sublime moment for Paul Ellis’ boy, the uneducated son of an uneducated linthead standing before several hundred of his peers, recognized as a leader in the battle to restore the beloved South. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The warmth of the sun caressed his face as they followed Professor McGonagall in silence to the place where hundreds of chairs had been set out in rows. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It’s not just because of the dangers of hitting some innocent bystander during the chase, although that is clearly part of the worry, since about three hundred Americans are killed accidentally every year during chases. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But then, two hundred years ago, the caravans stopped coming. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She had assumed she was going to be praised for her work in Maine the previous winter, when she had collected more than one hundred thousand women’s signatures in support of a prohibition law. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He mapped it out, bullied and cajoled clubs into producing volunteer crews, and personally superintended the construction of hundreds of miles of path. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Harry heard the buzzing of the hundreds of students on the other side of the wall, before Professor McGonagall closed the door. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“We’ve put more than a hundred thousand more troops into the country over the last year, and there’s been no improvement. Things aren’t any better at all. That means the underlying situation is really worse!” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The hundreds of small, unavenged humiliations which had been rising in me for months. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

One hundred thirty-six evenly spaced square pillars had been erected around the perimeter of what would become the two-story colonnade. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I take forty of the hundred pounds in the trunk and the ledger. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“So, because I won’t be able to see a hundred percent through my niqab, I’ll probably trip on this thing and fall?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

"And when do you plan to free Jaime? He's worth a hundred of you." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Men,” he said, “it is exactly one hundred and thirty- eight years since the Marines fought in Tripoli and first raised an American flag over foreign soil.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rubio is over two hundred meters to the east measuring the atmosphere, and Feathers is way too close to the jungle’s edge, holding a rock up to the sun. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Both past tenses have been around for hundreds of years, but since the sixteenth century it’s been customary to reserve hanged for referring to executions, and to use hung for other meanings. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She ran that hundred yards from Ben to the house in just under three minutes.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the press of a button, the two wings would close on the car with a joint pressure of five hundred tons. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

What happened to them in the last three hundred and eighty years? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I say Indian field, not great-grandfather’s field, because the white oak, like my hemlock, is at least three hundred years old, maybe four. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In reality I lay many hundred miles away in an alien land, and would wake, before many seconds had passed, in the bare little hotel bedroom, comforting in its very lack of atmosphere. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Confining ions in a magnetic field for about one hundred orbits was practical. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

To scrub the hundred years’ war off this white skin till there’s nothing left and I can walk out among my neighbors wearing raw sinew and bone, like they do. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are a hundred of us,” they replied, “and only one of you. What do you think?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The astronauts weren’t hundreds of thousands of miles away when the accident happened; they were on the ground, within feet of the ground crew and the engineers, and yet they still died. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Millions of people were going hungry, and hundreds of thousands of them would starve to death. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing more than a trickle within a hundred miles of here. Everyone knows that,” said Ruthanne, kicking up dust as we walked. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But then, three hundred meters out, Moch saw something that chilled him to his core. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Better make it an even seven hundred,” said X-Ray. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ve sold one of them, the one with the car. Four hundred dollars. Not a lot, but a start.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Colonel paused, then yelled, “Sold to this gentleman for six hundred dollars.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Half the church’s eight hundred members quit in protest. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And there was the fort, with hundreds of American soldiers waiting for them. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

"A hundred golden dragons to the man who brings me its skin!" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The town of Wall stands today as it has stood for six hundred years, on a high jut of granite amidst a small forest woodland. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I don’t know about that. There are hundreds of ways. Some paved, some pebbled, some pockmarked.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nothing seemed to be going wrong, so he withdrew a hundred pounds, and the machine gave it up without a hitch. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the course of a year, he rode one hundred and fifty to two hundred mounts, compared with as many as one thousand for other top riders. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up he climbed, arm over arm, arm over arm, two hundred feet now above the water, eight hundred feet now to go. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It smelled of hot chocolate and fresh-baked brownies, hamburgers on the grill and wildflowers, and a hundred other good things that shouldn’t have gone well together, but did. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that we were at least a hundred feet below ground, they were filled with a steady, rushing wind that smelled of dust and leather. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We drove about a hundred miles to the vineyards, where the grapes were so ripe they were about to burst on the vine in bunches bigger than my head. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

These and other considerations suggest that a time scale for a significant terraforming of Mars is probably hundreds to thousands of years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the ensuing civil war, which lasted until 2003, some three hundred thousand died, and countless fled into the mountains or into refugee camps in Tanzania and Mozambique. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It seems safe to say that the vast majority of people lived in small bands numbering several dozen or at most several hundred individuals, and that all these individuals were humans. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I straddled the highest point, the south face fell away beneath my right boot for twenty- five hundred feet; beneath my left boot the north face dropped twice that distance. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see myself as a grown-up, onstage in front of hundreds. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“The land is no place for a Gribley, and here I am three hundred feet from the beech with Gribley carved on it.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred hands reach up to catch my kiss, as if it were a real and tangible thing. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The grandmother with nine hundred heads killed each ox, skinned it, and tossed it into her enormous cooking pot. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“All of us did. Just in time. The Martials took more than a hundred Scholars last night.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“The sentence of the Court,” the judge said, “is that you pay a fine of one hundred dollars and the costs of the prosecution.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The number of black holes may well be greater even than the number of visible stars, which totals about a hundred thousand million in our galaxy alone. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred or so tufty little plants, purplish green in color, were growing there in rows. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He knelt in the dirt a moment, tenderly feeling his mouth, while the hundred or so spectators cheered and honked some more and clapped and bammed their hands against their hoods and fenders. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the last hundred years, that premonition has focused on a bright red point of light in the night sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having subjected hundreds of victims to experiments, he produced no more than a scratched, poorly annotated notebook with no noteworthy results. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Just sixteen miles to the south, beyond an escarpment of the Outer Range, hundreds of tourists rumble daily into Denali Park over a road patrolled by the National Park Service. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our culture has not changed much in hundreds of years, and we like it that way. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It occurs to Celia that she has never been farther than a hundred yards off the coast of Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I counted, by actual count, one hundred and fourteen.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s going pretty well. I’ve got one hundred and thirteen signatures. But I think I can get more before I present it to Principal Rivera.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z