I am reading a book and found this paragraph that I don't understand
小生の命も後百日のつもりその間身のすりきれるほど働くつもり I am getting that he intends to live what is
left of his life working until his last breath. I am not sure what 百日のつもり
means. I have searched and found that 百日 means lots of days is that correct or
there is an old meaning for this word?
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meaning of 百日のつもり
It consists of two sentences (where copula is omitted in both)

> 小生の命も後百日のつもり
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> その間身のすりきれるほど働くつもり

In the first, 小生の命 is the subject to 後{あと}百日{ひゃくにち}. It literally means _(The
rest of) my life is (only) another hundred days_. Since it is appended by
のつもり, the speaker says s/he would pretend as if her/his life would end in 100
days.
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