To accelerate this work likewise, Torgone bethought himself of other engines, by which that so great quantity of materials, whereof the dyke was made, might the more easily be brought to employment.
To pass over it, a great quantityof the aforesaid materials were thrown into every part thereof, where the aforesaid nations wrought.
The engineers therefore diminished the quantity of powder, that the interior only might fall, and the outward walls stand, and this method was found successful.
A large quantity of arms was purchased, and preparations were openly made for a raid into Canada, which the United States government took no steps to prevent.
The commander-in-chief at New York was prompted to this expedition by two objects,—to destroy a quantityof military stores which the Americans had collected in this neighborhood, and to make a diversion in favor of General Burgoyne.
Here had been gathered a considerable number of those artisans whose labors are particularly necessary for military purposes, and a considerable quantity of military stores.
He found a great quantity of Indian corn and beans, enough of which were drying near the house to have loaded three ships, besides what was growing in the fields.
The rough logs were partly covered by a wild vine, and a quantity of hop plants, still green and leafy.
All night he sat drinking, for he had brought a quantity of whisky home some time before, and towards morning he lay down for a while, but so that I could not move without disturbing him.
The wind becoming moderate, we embarked about one, taking a North-West course, through islands of ten miles, in which we took in a considerable quantity of water.
The plains are sand and gravel, covered with fine grass, and mixed with a small quantity of vegetable earth, This is particularly observable along the North branch, the West side of which is covered with wood.
A small quantity of our usual presents were received by them with the greatest satisfaction.
The guides, who are a very useful set of men, acted also in the additional capacity of interpreters, and had a stated quantity of goods, considered as sufficient for their wants, their wages being from one to three thousand livres.
We took in a large quantity of water, and had our mast given way, in all probability, we should have filled and sunk.
There was a large quantity of wild flax, the growth of last year, laying on the ground, and the new plants were sprouting up through it.
If we might judge from the quantity of powder that was wasted on our arrival, they certainly had not been in want of ammunition, at least during the summer.
This quantity is fully sufficient for a man's subsistence during twenty-four hours; though it is not sufficiently heartening to sustain the strength necessary for a state of active labour.
But instead of wind there came on a very heavy rain, which promised to diminish the quantity of broken ice.
Notwithstanding the anomalous form of its government, Puebla has ever been a great manufacturing town, and at this day consumes a quantity of cotton equal to some of our large manufacturing cities.
These presents were, at the same time, accompanied by a quantity of provisions.
A liberalquantity of some good fertilizer should be added to it.
There's any quantityof it back of your barn, I notice.
I would advise you to tell the dealer of whom you purchase seed the size of your lot, and let him decide on the quantity of seed required to make a good job of it.
It is always safe to trust to the judgment of the man who knows just what a fertilizer will do, as to the kind and quantity to make use of.
Exposure to sunshine has the effect of relieving them of a good deal of moisture which they contain in greatquantity when first dug, and which ought to be got rid of, in a large degree, before they are stored in the cellar.
Then what would you say to putting a quantityof minnows in glass bottles, and sinking them in the broad, in a good place, for two or three days?
The cod was then tied on to the net again and lowered, and the next net was visited in the same way, and found to contain about the same quantity of eels.
They get an enormous quantity of salt from that district, and it is of two kinds, the white table salt and that dark lumpy salt they put in fields for cattle.
They had perches with cross-bars made for the hawks, and set up at one end of the boat-house, and underneath it a tray containing a quantity of sand and a bowl of water.
The nets were first laid about seven o'clock, and first taken up about eight, and at intervals of an hour through the night the nets were visited, and about the same quantity of eels taken from them each time.
The quantity of eels is so great, that, as long as the young ones are spared, either night-lines or nets of the proper kind may be used.
The boys collected an immense quantity of worms, and taking on board a bag of grains for ground-bait, they sailed one Friday evening down to Ranworth and selected a likely spot in the river on the outside of a curve.
They got a quantity of fine gravel and sand, and thoroughly washed it in water, so as to cleanse it from all mud and impurity.
The plates are very beautiful, but the quaking grass, of which there is any quantity just by your head, is the prettiest.
I think a lot of perch would collect together and prowl about trying to get at them, and then we could go and catch any quantity of them, live baiting with minnows.
I was reading the other day," said Dick, "of the immense quantity of moths which lay their eggs on the oak.
Dick took his butterfly net, Jimmy a quantity of newspapers in which to dry plants, and Frank an opera-glass, with which to watch the movements of birds at a distance.
He was no stranger to cold water, but he had so far met it only in a tub, never in such quantity as this.
And that set him to planting a quantity in some of the damp bottoms by the water-pools.
They had all they needed, and fresh water was obtainable in any quantity by slinging an empty keg outside one of the scupper-holes through which the rain drained off the deck.
When Marion got back to her room, Sarah had arranged the various articles on the table in something like order, although the variety and quantity prevented them from making a very elegant appearance.
The English language abounds in orthographical expedients; the modes of expressing the quantity of the vowels being particularly numerous.
Exhibit the difference between the quantity of syllables and the quantity of vowels.
Its use as a sign of quantity then, would be an orthographical expedient, or an inconvenient conventional mode of spelling.
Hence, measured by the quantity of the vowel, the word sits is short, and the syllable see- in seeing is long.
This stock consisting chiefly, as it does, of Plymouth Rocks and Wyandottes, is well worth some extra pains toward increasing its quantity and quality.
We can handle anyquantity of chicks properly fatted.
This results in a reduction of the quantity of heat required to a minimum; in fact, with the incubator in full swing, the air will, at times, need cooling rather than warming.
The proposition of how much carbohydrates the hen eats is chiefly determined by the quantity of grain she consumes.
The producer of good stock receives pay for the extra quantity of his chickens, but for the extra quality no recognition whatever is given.
It must have been formed naturally at some time or another, but never before has it appeared in quantity enough to threaten a civilization.
I suspect that you carry a small quantity of your vaccine with you all the time.
A few grains of red prussiate of potash are dissolved in a suitable quantity of water, the latter being barely tinged, not of a strong yellow color.
Within reasonable limits, the proportions of these salts and the quantity of each in the solution does not matter very much.
His eyes blazing under the heat of the quantity of his hot stimulant he thrust her, a heap huddled into a corner of the room.
Straining my tired eyes, I discerned upon the far skyline a quantity of low, snow-covered, wood-built houses from which rose the pointed cupolas of several churches.
Nevertheless, he read a quantity of my letters mostly from school-friends.
The quantity of water alloted to each was prescribed by law; and royal overseers superintended the distribution, and saw that it was faithfully applied to the irrigation of the ground.
The quantity of silver was estimated at fifty-one thousand six hundred and ten marks.
One had charge of the revenues, reported the quantity of raw material distributed among the laborers, the quality and quantity of the fabrics made from it, and the amount of stores, of various kinds, paid into the royal magazines.
A fire was then kindled by means of a concave mirror of polished metal, which, collecting the rays of the sun into a focus upon a quantity of dried cotton, speedily set it on fire.
It took the form of ulcers, or rather hideous warts of great size, which covered the body, and when lanced, as was the case with some, discharged such a quantity of blood as proved fatal to the sufferer.
Molina was then escorted to the residence of the curaca, whom he found living in much state, with porters stationed at his doors, and with a quantity of gold and silver vessels, from which he was served.
Emeralds they obtained in considerable quantity from the barren district of Atacames, and this inflexible material seems to have been almost as ductile in the hands of the Peruvian artist as if it had been made of clay.
In one respect, however, they were superior to their American rivals, since they made use of weights to determine the quantity of their commodities, a thing wholly unknown to the Aztecs.
The quipu was a cord about two feet long, composed of different colored threads tightly twisted together, from which a quantity of smaller threads were suspended in the manner of a fringe.
The business of melting down the plate was intrusted to the Indian goldsmiths, who were thus required to undo the work of their own hands, They toiled day and night, but such was the quantity to be recast, that it consumed a full month.
The quantity of the cloth needed, as well as the peculiar kind and quality of the fabric, was first determined at Cuzco.
Besides these we had a quantityof clothing from the army depots.
The tent was furnished with five sleeping-bags and a quantity of provisions.
We also took a quantity of seal meat cut into steaks, blubber, dried fish, chocolate, margarine, and biscuits.
In these books each man kept a daily account of every scrap of provisions he took out; in this way we could always check the contents of the cases, and know what quantity of provisions we had.
The knife was mercilessly applied to all his beautiful work, and all the canvas, plus a quantity of the superfluous leather, was cut away.
I hoped to get such a quantity of provisions brought down to lat.
But seal-steaks and the smell of coffee were what attracted us, and it was no small quantity that disappeared that evening.
From the kitchen a double trap-door led to the loft, where we intended to keep a quantity of provisions and outfit.
For my part, I think the quantity of coffee people pour into themselves at such times is far more harmful than a little Lysholmer snaps.
We also took on board a quantity of loose timber, boards and planks.
For five years such a thing as breakfast has been an unknown quantity in her house, save when guests were present or for the servants.
And with all converts I found that the experiences in the penalties of gluttony were so enlightening, so restraining, that there was apparently little need to say much more as to the quantity or quality of food, what and how to eat.
The average quantity of whiskey was six ounces daily, and of milk nearly a quart.
She was amply satisfied for the day, and relished the same bill of fare and quantity for the forty-sixth day, with a very slight luncheon in the evening.
Nothing was allowed to pass her lips but a small quantity of tonicum and some physiological salts, dissolved in water.
The amount of zinc to be added naturally depends on the quantity of gold present.
Consequently, it contains a certain quantity of mineral salts, coloring substances, and other unknown extractive matters.
If the factor within brackets is a quantity less than unity, that signifies that i{t} will be less than E ÷ R.
The best method of application would be a broadcasting in fertilizing quantity before or during a rain, so as to carry the material into the soil at once.
On beginning the experiment the material in the bath was heated to just above the melting point, the thermometer was inserted in it, and a minute quantity of the explosive was placed in the bottom of the cartridge case.
This time, however, it will be possible to introduce a somewhat larger quantityof the instruction-material, and it will not be too early to make pupils perceive the connection between individual facts.
Arithmetic of business and of science, using the simple equation with one unknown quantity wherever it throws light upon the subject.
And as to the amount--so much as is needed for the immediate future; for excessive quantity promotes an early forgetting.
But about two years ago he bought, on credit, I believe, a considerable quantity of wheat, and prices happening to fly suddenly up just then, he made a large profit.
But he could not produce it in large quantity without employing assistants, whom he feared to trust with a knowledge of a manufacture so simple and so profitable.
The Visayas are taxed with great indolence, yet they are almost the only working people in districts which export a great quantity of produce.
A largequantity of tobacco was sold to meet the difficulty.
A certain quantity of what they collect is used to make ornaments, and passes from hand to hand instead of coin in payment of gambling debts, and stakes lost at cockfights.
This metal they exchange for what they want, giving a small quantity of it--about two or three grains--for a jar of drink that would hold five or six gallons.
The quantity raised in the islands is not sufficient to supply the home demand, so that cacao beans are imported from Venezuela and chocolate from Spain.
The Moros of Lake Lanao export a certain quantity of coffee of indifferent appearance but excellent flavour.
With this she purchased a pilon of sugar, and sending out some of her father's servants to the woods, collected a large quantity of guavas.
They consume a large quantity of fish with their rice, and salt and sell the surplus to their neighbours.
Previous to 1890, the quantity of copra exported was so small that no record was kept of it.
The skulls were then split open and the brains removed and given to some young girls, who worked them up with their hands in a quantity of basi or native beer.
