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Example sentences for "immense quantities"

  • It has given over a thousand bath and surgical sponges and towels in immense quantities.

  • Altogether they now employ several thousand operatives in spinning yarns or in the production of immense quantities of goods composed of materials of that description.

  • Immense quantities of sprats were captured at Lynn.

  • Immense quantities of beef, mutton, and pork were cooked in joints.

  • Into this port corn arrived for the supply of Rome from various countries; immense quantities of wheat were furnished by the island of Sicily.

  • Immense quantities of white ashes were thrown out, and the entire mountain was filled with rents and fissures, from which poured volumes of noxious vapors that suffocated man and beast.

  • Immense quantities of snow and ice, accumulated about the summit, were melted by the intense heat, and the waters rushed down in a column thirty feet deep and one and three-quarters miles wide, into the plain below.

  • Immense quantities of black sand were then thrown out, and a column of vapor and fire, filled with meteor-like specks, was hurled to a height of three thousand feet.

  • Immense quantities of material and many thousands of prisoners were captured by the British, Canadians and Australians in the north, and by the French and Americans in the south.

  • During the whole campaign poison gas of various kinds was used in immense quantities, and it was constantly necessary for the troops to wear gas masks.

  • It is now produced in immense quantities, chiefly by the distillation and purification of petroleum.

  • Originally a German beer, but now also made in immense quantities in the United States; -- so called from its being laid up or stored for some months before use.

  • Taylor, there are, in different parts of the United States, to be found fragments of huge craters from which, in the geological past, immense quantities of lava have escaped.

  • Immense quantities of ashes, stones, vapor and gases are thrown upwards for great distances into the air, while, at the same time, a lava stream pours over the lowest side of the crater.

  • This essential oil is manufactured in immense quantities, at La Trappe de Staonelli not far from the Bay of Sidi Ferruch, in Algiers, where about forty acres of the plant are in cultivation.

  • These creatures, which are found in immense quantities in the celebrated oyster-beds at Arcachon, near Bordeaux, cause great destruction amongst the bivalves.

  • Near Valdivia, immense quantities of gold were formerly found in the sands of the rivers and in alluvious grounds, but they are not worked at present, as the Spaniards are kept from those places by the natives.

  • Honey and wax, immense quantities produced in New Spain, i.

  • Of soda or potash, and various oily substances; it is so useful for domestic and other purposes, that it may be regarded as one of the necessaries of life; immense quantities of it are consumed in all civilized countries.

  • It is especially abundant in the United States, being found in immense quantities in the limestone caves in the south-western States.

  • Defn: Originally a German beer, but now also made in immense quantities in the United States; -- so called from its being laid up or stored for some months before use.

  • Immense quantities of rubber trees stood majestically, so far unknown and untouched in the luxuriant forest.

  • Immense quantities of fish could be seen in the river.

  • Immense quantities of Siphonia elastica were there to be seen on both sides of the stream in the forest, which was getting more and more luxuriant as we proceeded on our journey farther north.

  • Immense quantities of caƱa baraba were to be seen on the banks, and great numbers of delicately-tinted violet flowers which enlivened the landscape.

  • About 1750 the Marseilles faience was exported in immense quantities; and from that date, when the name of Honore Savy appears in the list of potters, polychrome decoration became more prevalent.

  • The store of force at present possessed by our system is equivalent to immense quantities of heat.

  • In that strip of reddish colour which runs along the cliffs of Suffolk, and is called the Redcrag, immense quantities of cetacean remains have been found.


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