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Example sentences for "enormous quantity"

  • It would be nothing short of cruelty on my part to wish to see you, since this would cause you to be so ill that it would require an enormous quantity of cakes to cure you.

  • There is an enormous quantity of game, and one can not take a step without running the risk of treading on pheasants or partridges.

  • You will see in the book an enormous quantity of Cossacks impaled, and Jews burned alive.

  • Second, the portion of bowel attached to the lengthened mesentery may become filled with an enormous quantity of fecal matter and paralyzed by the great distension.

  • In some cases an enormous quantity of fluid collects: from ten to thirty pounds may be regarded as usual, and forty to sixty pounds as exceptional, although the highest amount just given is not rare.

  • As night began to fall, the Manonoans began to dig a huge pit at a village named Maotâ, a mile from the scene of the battle, and as some dug, others carried an enormous quantity of dead logs of timber to the spot.

  • All this calls forth an enormous quantity of activity, and causes American life to assume the aspect of a life-and-death struggle for mastery over the material forces of that part of the earth's surface upon which it thrives.

  • In the concussion of two cosmical bodies, like the sun and the earth, an enormous quantity of motion is thus converted into heat.

  • An enormous quantity of carbonic acid gas is suddenly generated, and rising to the edge, overflows at the top of the glass shade.

  • Oil of vitriol poured on some loaf sugar placed in a breakfast-cup with the addition of a dessert-spoonful of boiling water, rapidly boils and deposits an enormous quantity of black charcoal.

  • Pigs void an enormous quantity of water, especially when fed on slops from the house, whey, etc.

  • In about four feet, water began to drain in, but, the sand being so loose, we had to remove an enormous quantity to enable a horse to drink.

  • They seemed pleased, but astonished to see the camels drink such an enormous quantity of water; they completely emptied the well, and the natives have probably never seen it empty before.

  • We found a place in it where the natives had dug, and where we got water, but the supply was very unsatisfactory, an enormous quantity of sand having to be shifted before the most willing horse could get down to it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    able seaman; beating constantly; come round; each end; enormous amount; enormous expense; enormous mass; enormous number; enormous numbers; enormous quantities; enormous quantity; enormous size; first introduced; further said; get away from here; inferior rank; intestinal worms; made the following report; organic acids; other institutions; plants belonging; slavery were; something foreign; took horse; under colour; visible form