“Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.”
“A hundred hundred heartbeats..." whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face.”
“not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.”
“The pavement shattered into hundreds of pieces -- sudden fall of rain.”
“Yes," Bitterblue said. "I suppose you could convert everything into minutes. Twelve times sixty is seven hundred twenty, and fifteen times fifty is seven hundred fifty. So our seven-hundred-twenty-minute half day equals its seven-hundred-fifty-minute half day. Let's see...Right now, the watch reads a time of nearly twenty-five past two. That's one hundred twenty-five total minutes, which, divided by seven hundred fifty, should equal our time in minutes divided by seven hundred twenty...so, seven hundred twenty times one hundred twenty-five is...give me a moment...ninety thousand...divided by seven hundred fifty...is one hundred twenty...which means...well! The numbers are quite neat, aren't they? It's just about two o'clock. I should go home.”
“It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before,”