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Example sentences for "great quantitie"

  • It is also garnished with the greene trees that be planted by the riuers sides and brookes, whereof there is great quantitie.

  • The people of this kingdome haue this riuer in great reuerence, which is the occasion that they neuer enter into the same but with great respect and feare.

  • There are Simples growing there of so rare properties, and in so great quantitie, that is an excellent thing to behold them.

  • They digge their grounds with certaine peeces of wood, as bigge as halfe a sword, on which ground groweth their corne, which they call Offici: it is as bigge as our small peason: there is great quantitie of it growing in Bresill.

  • This sand occupieth now a great quantitie of the ground betweene the hauen where the sand riseth, and Teignmouth towne, which towne (surnamed Regis) hath in time past beene sore defaced by the Danes, and of late time by the French.

  • And of the same nature, though of no great quantitie, is a pit or well at Langleie parke in Kent, whereof (by good hap) it was my lucke to read a notable historie in an ancient chronicle that I saw of late.

  • Their cheefe paiments consist of a great quantitie of meale, which is verie plentifull among them, sowed vp in sheepes skins.

  • From hence we went to the Lerie, an indraught of no great quantitie, neither commodious as I gesse (yet I may be deceiued) for anie ship to harborough in.

  • Their cheefe paiments consist of a great quantitie of meale, which is verie plentifull among them, sowed vp in shéepes skins.

  • This day walking to see the towne, we chanced to see in the market place, a great quantitie of certaine vermine called in the Italian tongue Caualette.

  • Oistershels, and thorow the Indies they spend great quantitie of money in this composition, and it is vsed daily, which thing I would not haue beleeued, if I had not seene it.

  • For if there be in that countrey so great quantitie, as we be informed there is, it will be the best commoditie we may haue: for hauing that wholly in our hands, we may serue our owne countrey and others.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great agitation; great band; great captain; great cities; great coat; great commotion; great danger; great disappointment; great family; great force; great future; great gain; great hand; great houses; great majority; great merit; great noise; great orator; great relief; great saving; great singer; great size; great stir; great victory; great wall; occurs also