Centuria

I looked at the centuria of Barbies fastened in a giant frame next to the bed. ❋ Paul Carr (2011)

They held a hurried consultation and then darted off in different directions, no doubt to demand how the expenditure of twenty million sesterces had failed to secure the centuria praerogativa. ❋ Robert Harris (2006)

The honor of being the first of the 193 centuries to vote was decided by lot, and to be a member of this centuria praerogativa, as it was known, was considered a rare blessing, for its decision often set the pattern for what followed. ❋ Robert Harris (2006)

³ Or visit our web site at: www. centuria.com/~hunter ³ ❋ Kevles, Daniel J. (1989)

A legion thus contained ten maniples of every class; that is, altogether thirty maniples, each of which consisted of two _centuriae_, and each _centuria_ was commanded by a _centurio_. ❋ 86 BC-34? BC Sallust (N/A)

When the _centuria prærogativa_ had been elected, the presiding magistrate sitting in a tent (_tabernaculum_,) called upon it to come and vote. ❋ Charles K. Dillaway (N/A)

When I joined the militia I had been told that I should be sent to the front the next day, but in fact I had to wait while a fresh centuria was got ready. ❋ Unknown (1938)

My centuria slept in one of the stables, under the stone mangers where the names of the cavalry chargers were still inscribed. ❋ Unknown (1938)

The centuria was an untrained mob composed mostly of boys in their teens. ❋ Unknown (1938)

The centuria, eighty men and several dogs, wound raggedly up the road. ❋ Unknown (1938)

The units of command were the ‘section’, of about thirty men, the centuria, of about a hundred men, and the ‘column’, which in practice meant any large number of men. ❋ Unknown (1938)

Laurentii Justiniani vita, sanctitate ac miraculis testimoniorum centuria (Venice, 1614); ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

His work is: "Sacrarum semioseon, animadversionum et electorum ex utriusque Testamenti lectione commentarius et centuria" (Valencia, 1610); it was re-edited in Venice, 1613, under the title "Selectæ Annotiones in varia utriusque Testamenti loca difficiliora." ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Epistolarum centuria miscella, III, 87; HALM in Allg. deutsche Biogr. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

[7] Observationum et curationum chirurgicarum, centuria secunda. ❋ William Alexander Hammond (1864)

Cuéntase, pues, que el tal Juan [77-1] Gómez, hombre a la sazón de más de media centuria, rústico muy avisado aunque no entendía ❋ Pedro Antonio De Alarc��n (1862)

Corderii colloquiorum centuria selecta; or, A Select Century of the Colloguies of Corderius, trans. ❋ Unknown (1795)

[Ive] been playing this [video game] for a [centuria]. ❋ Cenkid (2008)