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Example sentences for "immense quantity"

  • At one end of the table was a large black tray covered with an immense quantity of bread-seals of all sizes.

  • A dinner was given yesterday by the municipality to the National Guard, and an immense quantity of mustard was devoured on the occasion in honor of the staple manufactory of Dijon.

  • Opulence seems to prevail in all the villages in the vicinity of Parma, and an immense quantity of cattle is seen grazing in the meadows on each side of the road.

  • The country of Latium however is flat, dreary and monotonous; it affords pasture to an immense quantity of black cattle, such as buffaloes, etc.

  • On leaving Piacenza we passed thro' a rich meadow country and met with an immense quantity of cattle grazing.

  • Thirty thousand slaves are said to have been captured; an immense quantity of silver, wrought and coined; eighty-three thousand pounds of gold; of statues and pictures so many that they almost equalled the decorations of Syracuse.

  • An immense quantity of pottery has been found in connexion with many crannogs, by which means facilities are afforded for comparing ordinary domestic vessels with the urns and vases of an undoubtedly prehistoric and pagan period.

  • That people, therefore, consumed an immense quantity of this vegetable, which from infancy had been their principal food.

  • They became more frequent under the Emperors; and Severus ordered that an immense quantity should be brought into Rome.

  • This attempt by means of the dagger was followed by the explosion of an infernal machine, which consisted of a barrel of gunpowder surrounded by an immense quantity of grape shot.

  • Eighteen generals were dismissed on parole, an immense quantity of ammunition of all sorts fell into the hands of the victor, and a wagonful of Austrian standards was sent to Paris.

  • Hideyoshi then returned to Azuchi and presented to Nobunaga an immense quantity of spolia opima which are said to have exceeded five thousand in number and to have covered all the ground around the castle.

  • In the records of the Asano family it is stated that an immense quantity of rice was shipped at the outset, but that on landing in Korea the army found ample supplies of grain in every castle throughout the peninsula.

  • Then he appeared before the strong town of Mons in Hainault, with an irresistible train of artillery, and an immense quantity of bombs and warlike implements.

  • The magazines at Dresden were filled with an immense quantity of provisions and forage for the Prussian army, and the bakers were ordered to prepare a vast quantity of bread, for which purpose thirty new ovens were erected.

  • The fire was burning low, and in order to make more light, Tom went ashore and heaped an immense quantity of wood upon it.

  • First of all, he found an immense quantity of large mussels.

  • He lost one hundred and fifty men killed, three hundred prisoners, and an immense quantity of arms and military stores: two hundred and fifty British prisoners were also recaptured.

  • I had just taken up my light to survey my work, when all of a sudden I heard a dreadful rushing noise, as if an immense quantity of earth had come tumbling down.

  • There was also an immense quantity of bows and arrows, and darts, together with slings, and shields which roll up into a small compass and in action are let fall, and thereby cover the whole body.

  • At a small port in the vicinity, called Piripi, which has a very pretty river, an immense quantity of fish is caught, dried, and exported.

  • An immense quantity of high-priced saddles, and thousands of whips[80], were sent out to a people as incapable of adopting them as they were of knowing their convenience.

  • To return to our Easter holidays: the last week of Lent is employed in making an immense quantity of cakes, buns, and Easter bread, and in staining eggs with all sorts of colours.

  • Soon afterwards there appeared on the surface of the waters an immense quantity of foam, white as milk, and out of it issued all living creatures, including the human race.

  • An immense quantity of sturgeons are caught.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after him; dear countrymen; ever said; half smiling; held the; higher wages; immense army; immense booty; immense fortune; immense majority; immense number; immense relief; immense size; immense treasure; immense value; indictment against; just simply; labor disputes; little confused; mental traits; open grassy; plainly written; second self; seizing the; shut myself; the blood