five hundred

noun

, Cards.

a variety of euchre in which a joker and widow are included, the object being to score 500 points first.

five hundred

An Americanism dating back to 1915–20

And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

But Johnny slithered into the shaft, crawled five hundred feet into the earth.

On one occasion, she invited the Southern University Choir to sing to an audience of some five hundred.

LA, a note to follow sol LI, about five hundred yards That, LO—attention!

I and five hundred other men were thrown out of work, three months ago.

The fight lasted two days, and only two men out of the five hundred escaped with their lives.

The five hundred men whom we had left in San Antonio de Bexar, fared no better.

Among the Japanese who are in the islands there are more than one thousand five hundred Christians.

"Colonel Shaffer is a few miles to the west with about five hundred men," replied Harry.

Five hundred of our fighting men are running to and fro between cliffs and sea carrying stones wherewith to improve our pier.

April 23, 2024inveterate

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