They themselves are food for fishes, which devour them in vast quantities, rooting them out of their burrows or capturing them at night, at which time they swim about.
These sponges are an important factor in the economy of the sea, as they disintegrate dead shells, which would otherwise accumulate in vast quantities.
It destroys, by absorption, vast quantities of dead shells.
There is a strong belief that gold in vast quantities exists in Matabele-land.
Vast quantities of oil, resembling olive oil and used for the same purposes, are obtained by crushing the nuts.
Whenever these rivers pass through gold-bearing regions, the sand carries with it vast quantities of gold grains, or scales, which have to be panned, or separated from it by washing.
At these mills, vast quantities of paper are produced yearly, of various kinds and qualities, including broad sheets for several influential newspapers.
Vast quantities of armadilloes, especially, were caught by the soldiers.
It required the production of vast quantities of raw materials and the congregating in one place of large numbers of men capable of undertaking the exceedingly intricate mechanical processes of manufacture.
Vast quantities of curved track, as well as innumerable switches and turnouts, also were built.
Vast quantities of large sizes of rope were requested for overseas to replace steel hoisting cables, which could not be secured in sufficient quantities.
The scenery was very pretty, both in the woods before reaching the village, and from the ridge: vast quantities of snow visible to the north and north-east.
The imagination at once conjures upvast quantities of gold and silver.
Vast quantities of volcanic ash are caught up by the rain, and in this way very large quantities of mud are washed down the sides of the mountain.
Vast quantities of dust are produced, as already explained, by the pounding action that takes place during an eruption, as portions of rock in falling down meet others that are being hurled into the air.
I must here remark, that at the Great Salt Lick, or Saline, about twenty miles from the mouth of the Wabash, vast quantities of Indian earthenware are found, on which I have observed impressions exactly similar to those here mentioned.
Vast quantities of earthenware vessels, of great variety of forms and sizes, have been recovered from the sites north of the Arkansas, and these often present marked characteristics differing from the ware found farther south.
Game was plentiful, the streams teemed with fish, and wild fruits were to be had in vast quantities.
Remarkable physical geography of this kind resulted in the growth and accumulation of vast quantities of vegetable matter which has changed into the world's greatest coal beds.
They also manufacture submarine and land telegraphs in vast quantities, having aided largely in enclosing the globe in a network of cables.
Half of this area was located in Jefferson, Harrison, and Belmont counties on the Ohio River, and thus title was secured to vast quantities of fossil power in the upper coal measures, which ignites quickly and burns with a hot fire.
If time enough is allowed, vast quantities of this valley-ice move into the gulf or sea.
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