Five hundred-pound gorillas can move on, others can move up.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 24, 2006] Reference

"You say you go after hundred-pound fish in a little motor boat, suh?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference

I filled a one hundred-pound nail-keg with clay taken from the same place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference

BRAND: So tell us how this hundred-pound spacecraft captured pieces of a comet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ira Flatow on Science: Stardust Needs Volunteers!] Reference

Her hundred-pound, birdlike frame was swathed in a flowing emerald silk caftan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Give Us Forever]

I'm goin 'ter buy a hundred-pound sack o' beans myself ter-morrer an 'begin trainin'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ted Strong's Motor Car] Reference

Eisler practiced with a hundred-pound bag of potatoes, feeling the weight of the lift.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE SECOND MARK] Reference

CHINESE AIRPLANES tried to destroy a group of Japanese ships with hundred-pound bombs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Smoke] Reference

Michael was astonished to see her standing there, in a hundred-pound suit, holding a baby!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dangerous Lady]

He'd lug packs of Bird shingles up a ladder or hundred-pound sacks of cement all afternoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blaze]

At age ten Mike had caught a hundred-pound albacore, but this brown trout looked a lot bigger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Storm Rising]

The dispatcher, they sent me twenty-four tons of feed in here by boat in two hundred-pound bags.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with James W. (Jim) Connor, December 19, 1999. Interview K-0818. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

We were buying hundred-pound bags of sugar and going to the fruit district to get enough lemons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune’s Fool] Reference

Spongy metal mushrooms, in hundred-pound chunks, that tested more than ninety per cent uranium-235.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starchild Omnibus]

Five hundred-pound bombs on the purported safe house of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, obviously, not enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2004] Reference

At the same moment the rod tip jerked and the hundred-pound monofilament began to scream off her reel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: Blackwater Sound by James Hall] Reference

His voice was flat as a tire, and he walked like someone with a hundred-pound bag of grain on his back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sleepless] Reference

Paul was struggling with hundred-pound arms, trying to focus the telescope that swiveled over the panel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slingshot] Reference

We got that feeling like the whole game we were running uphill with a hundred-pound bag around our backs.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

He was crawling, pushing on his hands and knees, toward that pain-wracked, agonized, hundred-pound lump of meat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

Without a D.A.R.E. shirt or cargo shorts, and with my hundred-pound weight advantage, I find it difficult to pass.    From Wordnik.com.  [FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER] Reference

Why pay a thousand pounds for a large car when you can get the same result with one of our hundred-pound Midget Cars?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 26, 1919] Reference

Furness lifted a hundred-pound box of ammunition to his conduct as good as ran by a gunfire with it to a trapped men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference

One might suppose that this fierce hundred-pound machine of fury was faithfully guarding our most precious treasures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dental Plan Part 2.] Reference

It was a hundred-pound sack of green coffee beans that Monroe had stored away, sitting there fat and sagging in a corner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Mountain]

Babies starving in gutters as top-hatted capitalists whisk past lighting their foot-long cigars with hundred-pound notes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labour Pains] Reference

A few nights later, a pair of hundred-pound bombs fell on a Berlin street and blew the leg off a man standing in his doorway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Smoke] Reference

The hundred-pound beasts galloped toward her… spreading out and then closed in… converging on her from several directions at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Darkness » Blog Archive » From the Archives: Polar intro] Reference

Has not many a simple soul examined five new hundred-pound notes in this way, and calculated their powers of duration and multiplication?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mens Wives] Reference

I have a hundred-pound bag of the stuff I have to use up before the rats catch on to the illusory cat I have guarding it and chew into it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spell For Chameleon]

No chance, said Cary, and when a photographer snapped the couple, he gave the man a hundred-pound bribe not to sell the picture to a paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chaplin’s Girl] Reference

There's a hundred-pound weight on your tongue for silence. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference