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  • But no matther: I said a hundherd; and what I said

    John Bull's Other Island George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • But I won't take a penny more than a hundherd a year.

    John Bull's Other Island George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • A hundherd a year is twelve-pound a month, isn't it?

    John Bull's Other Island George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • The cook sat bolt upright, her hard, unsmiling face looking straight ahead, and she replied, between clenched teeth, "Wanst I get out, I'll go straight back home, if it's a hundherd miles yez do be takin 'me!"

    Patty's Butterfly Days Carolyn Wells 1902

  • Give it to twinty thousand three hundherd men, an 'sind thim afther Gov'nor Tanner.

    Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Hogan says, with achin 'heads, plannin' to sind three hundherd thousand millyon men an 'a carload iv beans to their fate at Tampa, Fla.

    Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • He had th 'sthreet-car stopped while he coughed up ree-marks about th' Constitution, until th 'bar-rn boss sint down an' threatened to discharge Mike Dwyer that was dhrivin 'wan hundherd an' eight in thim days, though thransferred to Wintworth Avnoo later on.

    Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Th 'poor, tired human mind don't tumble, Hinnissy, to th' raison f'r landin 'four hundherd marines at

    Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • No human bein ', Hinnissy, can undherstand what the divvie use it was to sink a ship that cost two hundherd thousan' dollars an 'was worth at laste eighty dollars in

    Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Gin'ral Garshy immedjitly offered th 'sarvices iv himsilf an' his two hundherd men f'r th 'capture iv Sandago; an', when Gin'ral Shafter arrived, there was Gin'ral Garshy with his gallant band iv fifty

    Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

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