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Examples
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“Well,” Logan said as he ducked a hundred-pound fist, “I seem best at defense.”
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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The landings at Algerian beaches near Oran and Algiers were chaotic with transports off course or lost in the dark night, tank-carrying vessels stuck on sandbars, green American soldiers staggering to shore with hundred-pound packs on their backs, and French soldiers waiting for them who chose to fight though they were far outnumbered.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Furness lifted a hundred-pound box of ammunition to his conduct as good as ran by a gunfire with it to a trapped men.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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The landings at Algerian beaches near Oran and Algiers were chaotic with transports off course or lost in the dark night, tank-carrying vessels stuck on sandbars, green American soldiers staggering to shore with hundred-pound packs on their backs, and French soldiers waiting for them who chose to fight though they were far outnumbered.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Furness lifted a hundred-pound box of ammunition to his conduct as good as ran by a gunfire with it to a trapped men.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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Even, say, a hundred-pound teenaged girl tumbling down from a ninth-floor window would have hit the net with a force of more than a ton.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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Once, during the morning, while Anson took a breathing spell after bringing in another hundred-pound pack, Tarwater delicately hinted his impression.
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Charles is liable to get kicking because I ain't packin 'my share' just the same, you can't expect a hundred-pound man to pack as much as a hundred-and-sixty-pounder.
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She looked like a thousand pounds of evil packed into a slender, hundred-pound body.
My Fair Succubi Jill Myles 2011
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“Well,” Logan said as he ducked a hundred-pound fist, “I seem best at defense.”
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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