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Example sentences for "vast quantity"

  • Suddenly he was taken with another fit, and again a vast quantity of food was vomited.

  • A strong emetic was given, which brought up a vast quantity of undigested food.

  • She accumulates a vast quantity of fat, becomes listless and idle, and is almost invariably short-lived.

  • Most of the labourers were now employed in cutting down, gathering, and cleaning the Indian corn, a vast quantity of which was destroyed by the parroquets, although men were constantly employed in beating them off with long poles.

  • He introduced also a vast quantity of waters which ran along it, and which were very delightful and ornamental in the court.

  • I also observed that at Berne and Fribourg, the public fountains are supplied from sources where there is a vast quantity of this calcareous deposit.

  • It was quite covered with peasants, engaged in ploughing out potatoes, and in gathering the leaves of the tobacco-plant, of which there was a vast quantity.

  • I was informed that the Austrians obliged this district to furnish 100 cows, a vast quantity of cheese, butter, &c.

  • The troops dashed after them, and over a thousand rebels were killed, 14 guns taken, along with a vast quantity of stores and plunder.

  • In these operations no fewer than 205 pieces of cannon were captured, while a vast quantity of munitions of war fell into our hands.

  • Upwards of 70 guns of different calibre, some very heavy, and a vast quantity of ammunition, fell into our hands.

  • After a vast quantity of splashing, and cracking, and struggling, Mr. Pickwick was at length fairly extricated from his unpleasant position, and once more stood on dry land.

  • Wolfe had now been five weeks before Quebec; not a few lives had been lost, a vast quantity of ammunition expended, and, above all, the season of action was already half consumed.

  • A vast quantity of tigers' skins are yearly sent to Spain.

  • At this time, Sidon was so immensely rich, that the cinders, among which a vast quantity of gold and silver had melted, were sold by the conqueror for a large sum of money.

  • But besides these, there are others which afford us a vast quantity of interesting information upon the subjects of their domestic usages and every-day life.

  • A vast quantity of dust rises, so fine, that it enters into the throat and nostrils, and chokes to such a degree, that it requires great power of lungs to resist it, and the strong effluvia of the mummies.

  • At the same time he carried away a vast quantity of treasure in gold and other costly things which belonged to King Menelaus.

  • A vast quantity of wood was cut down on Mount Ida, and carried to the plain, where the logs were heaped together in an immense pile, a hundred feet square.

  • At the request of Juno the god of fire sent down a vast quantity of flames, which scorched and dried up the plain, and burned the trees and reeds on the banks of the rivers.

  • Seizing him furiously by the wool with both hands, I tore out a vast quantity of black, and crisp, and curling material, and tossed it from me with every manifestation of disdain.

  • On the roof is a vast quantity of tiles with long curly ears.

  • Whether the number of the llamas was really so considerable as it is stated to have been, may fairly be doubted; but that a vast quantity of gold was on its way to Caxamarca, and was concealed, is a well-authenticated fact.

  • Wax is also in great demand; for in the religious ceremonies, which are almost of daily occurrence, a vast quantity of tapers is consumed.

  • Under this denomination are included a variety of preparations, in which a vast quantity of cayenne pepper is introduced.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    best could; cannot help; cotton blow; double company; early example; general sense; gunshot wound; half inches; inherent power; kingly government; little flour; that respect; three miles from the; vast amount; vast army; vast concourse; vast height; vast importance; vast mass; vast number; vast numbers; vast plain; vast quantities; vast variety; violent opposition; well beaten