Five or six others with myself trusted this man Galpin with a large quantity of clocks, and he took them to Louisiana to sell in the fall of 1821.
Terry had a large quantity of old clocks in a store in New York--many of them old-fashioned and unsaleable, and thousands of these were not worth fifty cents apiece.
The effect of machinery development in thus throwing on the labour-market a large quantity of women and children competitors is one of those serious questions which will occupy our attention in a later chapter.
The break-up of the London factories has furnished "sweating trades" with a large quantity of unemployed and starving people from whom to draw.
A large quantity of valuable material exists in The Report of the Industrial Remuneration Conference, and in the Reports of the Lords' Committee on the Sweating System and of the Labour Commission.
Every rise of price implies a fall off in quantity sold; and it may therefore pay a Trust better to sell a large quantity at a moderate profit than a smaller quantity at an enormous profit.
No one knows, my lord; the murder was accompanied by robbery; some one entered the apartment and carried off a large quantity of jewels.
Without doubt, consigned by some Paris merchant to some of his country customers, it contained a large quantity of articles for women's use.
The chief was presented with brandy, equal in strength to spirits of wine, and he swallowed a large quantity of it with exquisite pleasure.
Bacon should be boiled in a large quantity of water, and a ham is not done sufficiently, till the bone on the under part comes off with ease.
The former landed a boat in a bay on the coast about six miles to the southward of Port Stephens, where the seine was hauled and a large quantity of fish taken; but of the fish which they went to procure (whales) they saw none.
At Parramatta the public bakehouse was broken into, and robbed of a large quantity of flour and biscuit.
The best is obtained from the West Indies, but a large quantity of what is sold in London is adulterated with potato-starch.
In mixing the oil and vinegar with the eggs, put in first a few drops of oil, and then a few drops of vinegar, never adding a large quantity of either at one time.
It can be used also for beer instead of malt, and, in distillation, it yields a large quantity of spirit.
When mackerel was employed, a few of them were placed in a small vase, with a large quantity of salt, which was well stirred, and then left to settle for some hours.
Not far from the blockhouse of Concepcion and in these same mountains, the Spaniards discovered a large quantity of amber, and in some caverns was distilled a greenish colour very much prized by painters.
The natives throw a large quantity of these gourds into the ponds, after having carefully stopped up the holes by which water is introduced into them, to prevent their sinking.
He would everywhere find iron utensils, and could procure a large quantity of the metal.
One of the first operations meditated by Washington after crossing the Schuylkill was the destruction of a large quantity of hay which remained in the islands above the mouth of Darby creek, within the power of the British.
All their baggage, however, was lost and a large quantity of provisions and military stores fell into the hands of the British.
After the British got possession of the town the arms taken from the Americans, amounting to 5,000 stand, were lodged in a laboratory near a large quantity of cartridges and loose powder.
He had received information that the Americans had collected a large quantity of stores in the town of Danbury and in other places on the borders of Connecticut.
Sometime in August of this year, there was a large quantity of yellow unpicked cotton lying in the gin house.
The ship was made fast to a big one and a large quantity of ice was taken on board to replenish the fresh-water supply.
Lying farther off the shore was a thick fringe of islets, among and beyond which drifted a large quantity of heavy floe.
On removing the hoof, under the sole there appeared a large quantity of very foetid pus; the laminæ were very much inflamed in patches.
Here, therefore, loss of adhesion with the wall is greatest, while into the cavity so formed is poured a large quantity of a fluid that is practically incompressible.
Mechanically, of course, the removal of a large quantity of blood is bound to result in a lowering of the pressure in the vessels.
Alberoni left a large quantity of manuscripts; but the genuineness of the Political Testament, published in his name at Lausanne in 1753, has been questioned.
A large quantity of wool, together with silk, dried fruit, madder and asafetida, finds its way to India by the Kandahar route.
They returned to the ship, and resumed their search on the next day, when they found two more corpses, one of which was seen to have a large quantity of beard.
These seeds contain a large quantity of oil, which is expressed from them in China and used for a variety of purposes.
Kentucky, where oil is produced in large quantity, this limestone does not exist.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "large quantity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
