Careful Words

hundred (n.)

hundred (adj.)

I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.

Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 1.

While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

Then here's to the oak, the brave old oak,

Who stands in his pride alone!

And still flourish he a hale green tree

When a hundred years are gone!

H F Chorley (1831-1872): The Brave Old Oak.