The absorption of a small amount of this drug does the animal no harm, but a larger quantity may salivate it.
Only a small amount of urine is passed at each attempt, and in severe inflammation it may contain pus or blood.
A characteristic of all cereals, however, is that they contain a large amount of carbohydrate and a small amount of water.
Very often the water in which a small amount of pearl barley has been cooked for a long time is used to dilute the milk given to a child who has indigestion or who is not able to take whole milk.
Dried beans and peas, cereals, and tough cuts of meat will not cook tender so readily in hard water as in soft, but the addition of a small amount of soda during the cooking of these foods will assist in softening them.
Molds grow on cheese, bread, damp cloth or paper, or articles that contain only a small amount of moisture, but bacteria need from 20 to 30 per cent.
If a horse is to do a small amountof work, or rest entirely from work for a few days, he should receive a proportionate quantity of feed.
They are rather expensive to buy, and we country housewives cannot always procure them when wanted, and they may be made at home with a small amount of labor and less expense.
Stand the peppers in a bake dish containing a small amount of water.
And the variety a capable housewife may give her family, with the expenditure of a small amount of time and thought.
The use of a small amount of water upon roasts gives better control by checking the roast at the proper point--the crucial time of its greatest heat; also, it swells and brightens the coffee, and tends to close the outer pores.
This colony raises a small amount of coffee for local consumption, and exports a few hundred pounds; but it is really an importing and not an exporting colony.
A term applied by Brücke to a substance present in small amount in starch granules, colored red by iodine.
The act or process of making ether; specifically, the process by which a large quantity of alcohol is transformed into ether by the agency of a small amount of sulphuric, or ethyl sulphuric, acid.
Fruit with leathery rind, about size of small apple, packed with seeds, each imbedded in a small amount of crisp, juicy pulp.
The proportion of starch in rice is large, but it contains but a small amount of gluten, and therefore a large amount must be eaten in order to obtain sufficient nutritive elements.
Ahkootoo" is made from deer marrow, mixed with whale oil, a small amount of soup from boiled deer meat and also some of the meat cut fine.
A small amount of tobacco is then introduced, about enough to give one or two puffs, and a piece of tinder being placed at the edge, fire is struck with a flint and steel.
For this purpose some good work on bowing should be studied, but meanwhile a few words on the subject at this point will give the absolute beginner at least a small amount of indispensable information.
They were willing to go back, and it was with no small amount of relief that they allowed themselves to be escorted to the apartment.
He went out, and found Professor Scotch and Hans awaiting his appearance with no small amount of anxiety.
Well, I am sure I knew your voice the moment I heard it, and the sound gave no small amount of satisfaction.
From beneath such a covering dark-eyed native girls stared curiously at the passing trio, causing Hans no small amount of confusion.
There is a small amount of irrigation from wells and in the neighbourhood of Isakhel from canal cuts from the Kurram.
The last term describes a small amount of land watered from tanks or jhíls in the plains and a larger area in the hills irrigated by kuhls or small artificial channels.
In high spirits, therefore, and with no small amount of pride in my heart, I sailed up the harbour and saluted Sir Peter Parker with thirteen guns, which compliment he returned with eleven.
Thick clouds were banking up from the westward and southward, which soon rushing on like a vast army sweeping over a devoted country, deluged us with rain, bringing a heavy breeze, which kicked up no small amount of sea.
In this they unhappily succeeded, and brought no small amount of opprobrium and disgrace on the Protestant cause.
Our seats were secured to the deck, and the dishes were lashed to the table, while it required no small amountof ingenuity and rapidity to convey each mouthful from our plates to our mouths.
The resources of the professional malingerer are exceedingly varied, and testify to no small amount of cunning.
It was much dilated, and only a small amount of the kidney-substance remained.
During the following evening the patient lost about eight ounces of blood externally, with a small amount internally.
It needs some brains and no small amount of reverence in any man, before he can become an honest agnostic; in both brains and reverence, Kathryn was supremely lacking.
This is due to the fact that the water takes up a small amount of oxygen from the air, which gradually oxidizes the organic matter present in the water.
Air or oxygen containing a small amountof ozone is now used in place of oxygen in certain manufacturing processes.
The purity of the materials is tested by heating a small amount of the mixture in a test tube.
In other words, a small amount of air is caused to pass through a small absorbing-system constructed of U-tubes rather than of porcelain vessels and silver-plated cans.
Since, however, in admitting the oxygen from the cylinder there is a simultaneous admission of a small amount of nitrogen, a correction is necessary.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small amount" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
