1894 Brewer’s / H / Hundred
Hero of the hundred fights or battles.
Lord Nelson (1758–1805)
Conn, a celebrated Irish hero, is so called by OʹGnive, the bard of OʹNiel: “Conn, of the hundred fights, sleeps in thy grass-grown tomb.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.