FOUR HUNDRED

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four hundred substantiv

(amer.) the four hundred cele patru sute de familii, oligarhia financiar-industrială care reprezintă adevărata conducere a ţării (în S.U.A.).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I will not leave you, Sir William, returned Sir Simon Burley; and yet, as an old soldier and one who hath seen much of war, I cannot but think that it is an ill thing for four hundred men to find themselves between an army of sixty thousand on the one side and a broad river on the other.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He often builds his largest men of war, whereof some are nine feet long, in the woods where the timber grows, and has them carried on these engines three or four hundred yards to the sea.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Many a night have I heard that song, both in the old war-time and after in the days of the White Company, when Black Simon of Norwich would lead the stave, and four hundred of the best bowmen that ever drew string would come roaring in upon the chorus.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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