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Example sentences for "incredible number"

  • On the west side of the cape there appeared to be a lagoon, and on the two spits which formed the entrance we saw an incredible number of the large birds that resemble a pelican.

  • At night, being at the distance of about two miles from the Java shore, we saw an incredible number of lights upon the beach, which we supposed were intended to draw the fish near it, as we had seen the same appearance at other places.

  • An incredible number of fragments of lava were thrown out during the eruption, some of which were of immense magnitude.

  • To illuminate them, they light up in them an incredible number of torches or lamps, which at a distance have a beautiful effect.

  • We were also assailed by an incredible number of flies and other insects, among which was a beautiful species of libellula.

  • After a couple of hours of auction, a large cloth was suddenly removed from a long table, and presented to our sight an incredible number of wine and beer-glasses, of empty decanters and bottles of all sizes and quality.

  • The news of that sudden religious reformation spread with lightning speed all over the continents of America and Europe, and an incredible number of inquiring letters reached me from every corner.

  • An incredible number of infidels were converted by him from idolatry, and worldly Christians from their disorders.

  • By his profuse charities he preserved an incredible number of distressed persons from perishing, and by his zeal he stemmed the torrent of iniquity in times of universal disorder and calamity.

  • An incredible number of souls was drawn out of the sink of idolatry, and the most shameful vices, by the zeal of St. Swidbert.

  • By the invincible power of his eloquence and zeal he tamed the fiercest sinners, and changed them into meek lambs: he converted an incredible number of idolaters and heretics.

  • Since leaving Jenna they met an incredible number of persons visited with the loss of one eye.

  • An incredible number of hippopotami arose very near them, and came plashing and snorting and plunging all round the canoe, and placed them in imminent danger.

  • From Tewksbury it is certified, that an incredible Number of Barns have been blown down in the small Towns and Villages thereabouts.

  • Sheppard finished his career at Tyburn in the midst of an incredible number of spectators; and their conduct occasions this notice of him.

  • His execution attracted the greatest concourse of spectators ever known to have assembled on a similar occasion; and an incredible number of thieves of every description attended, to wreak their vengeance on their general enemy.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bank credits; broad belt; charge upon; chez les; curious account; domestic institution; east window; extract from; fatal termination; fish products; good eating; having given; having gone; incredible number; liberal education; note that; pack horses; stiff clay; then with; thus treated; used medicinally; witness against