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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Hundred.
 
Hero of the hundred fights or battles.   1
   Lord Nelson (1758–1805)   2
   Conn, a celebrated Irish hero, is so called by O’Gnive, the bard of O’Niel: “Conn, of the hundred fights, sleeps in thy grass-grown tomb.”   3
 


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