Definitions
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- adjective the ordinal number of one hundred one in counting order
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Examples
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You need to keep getting the stuff down and hope the hundred-and-first is good.
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NOT, "What's your favorite one hundred-and-first contact story?"
What's your Douglas Hoffman 2005
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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.
The Misenchanted Sword Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1985
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The whole thing was perfectly silly, she told herself for the hundred-and-first time.
Knocked for a Loop Rice, Craig, 1908-1957 1957
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Beyond doubt he would have prolonged deliberation till his hundred-and-first; and they would be infallibly and invincibly wrong.
Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955
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"Oh, damn!" she cried, as the hundred-and-first couplet or so presented itself in her unwilling brain.
Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Herbert George 1909
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"Oh, damn!" she cried, as the hundred-and-first couplet or so presented itself in her unwilling brain.
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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.
Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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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.
Amiel's Journal Henri Fr��d��ric Amiel 1885
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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:
A Bookful of Girls Anna Fuller 1884
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