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- noun archaic
Hundred
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Examples
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Eir had already sent fivescore arrows, and she drew the last two from her quiver and buried them in a pair of icebrood.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Eir had already sent fivescore arrows, and she drew the last two from her quiver and buried them in a pair of icebrood.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Selkirk, then through fivescore miles of dismal wilderness to
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Eir had already sent fivescore arrows, and she drew the last two from her quiver and buried them in a pair of icebrood.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Single-handed against fivescore, girt by the Arctic winter, far from his own, he felt the prompting of his heritage, the desire to possess, the wild danger -- love, the thrill of battle, the power to conquer or to die.
The Son of the Wolf 2010
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The players deserted the other games, and the dancing-floor was forsaken, so that all stood at last, fivescore and more, in a compact and silent group, around the poker-table.
Chapter 2 2010
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The lodges were forsaken, and the fivescore or so members of the tribe gave tongue to their folk-chants in honor of their guest.
The Sun of the Wolf 2010
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Single-handed against fivescore, girt by the Arctic winter, far from his own, he felt the prompting of his heritage, the desire to possess, the wild danger -- love, the thrill of battle, the power to conquer or to die.
The Sun of the Wolf 2010
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So journeyed this strangely assorted couple down to old Fort Selkirk, then through fivescore miles of dismal wilderness to Stuart River.
“The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction 2010
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The lodges were forsaken, and the fivescore or so members of the tribe gave tongue to their folk-chants in honor of their guest.
The Son of the Wolf 2010
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