NOT, "What's your favorite one hundred-and-first contact story?". From Wordnik.com. [What's your] Reference
You need to keep getting the stuff down and hope the hundred-and-first is good. From Wordnik.com. [Interview with Sean Beaudoin] Reference
The whole thing was perfectly silly, she told herself for the hundred-and-first time. From Wordnik.com. [Knocked for a Loop]
Beyond doubt he would have prolonged deliberation till his hundred-and-first; and they would be infallibly and invincibly wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
He had been thinking of quietly burying Wirikidor somewhere to keep it from being drawn that hundred-and-first time — or ninety-ninth or one-hundred-and-third or whatever. From Wordnik.com. [The Misenchanted Sword]
"Shall I go and warn her the hundred-and-first time?" asked Loo, willing enough. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Hope] Reference
Some portion of it may here go through above the hundred-and-first, for want of a better. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. From Wordnik.com. [Black Entertainment : Black News : Urban News : Hip Hop News - EURweb.com] Reference
Charity is generous; it runs a risk willingly, and in spite of a hundred successive experiences, it thinks no evil at the hundred-and-first. From Wordnik.com. [Amiel's Journal] Reference
Pomery, while tolerant of "I attempt from Love's sickness to fly" up to the hundredth repetition, might conceivably show signs of tiring at the hundred-and-first. From Wordnik.com. [Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756] Reference
Dan looked critically from the great Peak, gleaming there in the starlight, to Polly's uplifted face, and then, as they turned to go in, he exclaimed, for the hundred-and-first time. From Wordnik.com. [A Bookful of Girls] Reference
Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in tow, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone on before. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Good and The Bad , and What to Do] Reference
And it’s a dreadful cliché, but you could really discover something new in a track from the band’s heyday on the hundred-and-first listen. From Wordnik.com. [Rush: a fanâs notes - Colby Cosh - Macleans.ca] Reference
"Your ladyship and miss: I, John Nicholas, a Staffordshire man born and bred, went out to India twenty-three years ago as lance corporal in the hundred-and-first regiment of foot. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891] Reference
If we recognize that all these presuppositions are compounds of experience, and that every experience may finally show itself to be deceptive and false; if we recognize how the actual progress of human knowledge consists in the addition of one hundred new experiences to a thousand old ones, and if we recognize that many of the new ones contradict the old ones: if we recognize the consequence that there is no reason for the mathematical deduction from the first to the hundred-and-first case, we shall make fewer mistakes and do less harm. From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference
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