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Example sentences for "vast amount"

  • There is a vast amount of undeveloped guilt within every impenitent soul.

  • A great deal has been written, and with a vast amount of dogmatism, concerning the Pelasgians and their colonizations and conquests on the shore and over the islands of the Mediterranean Sea.

  • And he also distributed a vast amount of money to the Christian churches in honor of the true God in whose name he had received baptism;" which would seem to imply that this transaction occurred on the very day of his baptism.

  • Not only did they make good their escape, but they brought away with them a vast amount of plunder, computed at three hundred thousand pieces of eight, besides five hundred head of cattle and many prisoners held for ransom.

  • In the Ile de la Vache the buccaneers shared among themselves two hundred and sixty thousand pieces of eight, besides jewels and bales of silk and linen and miscellaneous plunder to a vast amount.

  • Cruising off Maracaibo, he captured a rich prize laden with a vast amount of plate and ready money, and there conceived the design of descending upon the powerful town of Maracaibo itself.

  • There may be a vast amount of struggle and exercise ere we are brought to say "without strength!

  • There is a terrible amount of unreality in our prayers--a sad lack of the moral basis--a vast amount of "asking amiss.

  • There may be a vast amount of ignorance displayed in the prayer, both in its character and object; but the spirit of prayer is, unquestionably, divine.

  • There may be a vast amount of mere intercourse without one particle of divine fellowship.

  • Even in the peculiar attitude in which he stood to money, his system of personal economics, as we may call it, he displayed a vast amount of truly down-East calculation, and he adopted poverty like a piece of business.

  • I am sure that the trip would do your mother and sister a vast amount of good.

  • I am sure it would do Mamma a vast amount of good," remarked Senorita Isolda; "and it might also have the effect of putting a stop to the visits of Senor Alvaros, who is fast becoming an unendurable nuisance.

  • And therewith the trio stalked down the room, and, with a vast amount of clatter, seated themselves at the table next to the one occupied by Singleton.

  • Vast amount of dirt accumulating on the surface.

  • The subject of automatic telegraphy received a vast amount of attention from inventors at the time it was in vogue.

  • The ability to detect errors quickly in a series of experiments is one of the things that has enabled Edison to accomplish such a vast amount of work as the records show.

  • The Kaffir men assume a vast amount of dignity, and look down upon the Hottentots, Fingoes, etc.

  • We saved ourselves a vast amount of ridicule by leaving the hatchet at home.

  • It did not give me the idea of a very delightful residence, at least for any lengthened period, unless one happened to have a vast amount of resources within oneself.

  • I rarely found a Kaffir who could not afford me a vast amount of information on many subjects; and all the cunning and art of an English lawyer would scarcely improve the Kaffir's style of reasoning.

  • The turnip crop returns a vast amount of nutritive matter to the soil.

  • The success of that measure compelled a change in the executive policy, as the accumulation of a vast amount of money in the treasury was no longer desirable.

  • I dare say there was a vast amount of minuting, memoranduming, and despatch-boxing, on this mighty subject.

  • I should be glad to hear such people's estimate of the comparative danger of "a little learning" and a vast amount of ignorance; I should be glad to know which they consider the most prolific parent of misery and crime.

  • Most unwillingly, and after a vast amount of breathing on the blades to see how quickly the vapor disappeared, the half-dollar came forth and the scissors changed owners.

  • At every session of the Legislature some fresh bills are brought in for dealing with the swamp lands, and a vast amount of "lobbying" goes on, which I suppose some people or other find a profit in.

  • She personally supervised the list of those who had the entree to the Castle, and her censorship of her predecessor's list caused a vast amount of ill-feeling.

  • He was forty-three years of age, and had succeeded in achieving an unpopularity that provided him with a vast amount of inspiration for lampoons and caricatures.

  • In the most favourable times it requires a vast amount of tact, a keen sense of humour, and a sense of proportion.

  • This is particularly true of our own western country, where a vast amount of collecting has been done, although very much remains to be done in the matter of perfecting this knowledge, and hosts of new animals remain to be discovered.

  • There is a vast amount of literature relating to the mammoth, some of it very untrustworthy.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    awfully nice; four table; grain doses; gray stone; held out his hand; many distinct; much the; naval defence; one thing; ruffed grouse; seated upon; sound asleep; vast abundance; vast amount; vast deal; vast extent; vast height; vast importance; vast majority; vast mass; vast multitude; vast numbers; vast variety; vastly superior; vastly well; went around