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Example sentences for "ample supply"

  • Even with an ample supply of food and water we should have found it trying; as it was, we suffered doubly.

  • Before embarking, Dick, tucking up his trousers, waded into the water with his hand-net, and soon caught an ample supply of small fish for bait.

  • Finding that we wanted sandal-wood, they brought off an ample supply, for which my father gave them a price which thoroughly satisfied them.

  • A liberal administration of quinine seemed to constitute the most hopeful form of treatment, and luckily we possessed an ample supply of the drug.

  • She has an abundant, docile, and orderly population, and she obtains from the sun an ample supply of that heat which has to be paid largely for here.

  • In a country abounding in game like Ceylon, a person with a rifle in his hand, and a supply of powder and shot or bullets, need never be in want of an ample supply of food.

  • A flock of goats were driven past us, from which we abstracted an ample supply of milk.

  • Objections have been raised to giving the baby even one bottle when the mother has an ample supply of milk, but none of them are valid.

  • Intelligent women who understand this desire to know how they should live that they may best insure an ample supply of good milk.

  • An ample supply of Towels, Sheets, and Gowns.

  • Disengaging them, they were carried to pens, made with stakes stuck in the mud, where they were fed with mangrove-leaves, and our cooks had at all times an ample supply of the best of green turtles.

  • A house is prepared for the young couple, and an abundant feast is made ready, including an ample supply of a fermented drink called pangasi, which is preserved in large jars.

  • An ample supply of arms is kept in the house, bows and arrows, spears, swords and knives.

  • Knowing that all the rivers in Trinidad abound with fish, we regretted that we had neither spears, nor rods and lines, with which we might: easily have caught an ample supply.

  • We could only hope that it was not alone, and that should we require sloth-steaks we might be able to have an ample supply.

  • It seemed a cruel deed, but necessity, in such a case, has no law, and we were thankful to have obtained such an ample supply of meat.

  • A creek at the northern side of the range was dry; but, at its southern foot, there was another, which contained several small pools and two deep rocky basins with an ample supply of water.

  • The clustered fig-tree gave us an ample supply of fruit, which, however, was not perfectly mellow.

  • Not that the seamen were in any great hurry to leave the island; as long as they had an ample supply of food and liquor they were happy, while they had sufficient occupation to keep them out of mischief.

  • Efforts were made to extinguish the fire, and had there been an ample supply of water, it might easily have been done, for it was only in spots where the flames blew against the woodwork that they produced any effect.

  • We have an ample supply of food for several weeks.

  • Denis carried his gun; and Raff, to whom he had given some water, as well as an ample supply of meat, trotted after them perfectly revived.

  • Although it was no easy matter to get up with them, still Hendricks was too experienced a hunter to be baffled, and he never failed, when he went out for the purpose, to bring back an ample supply of meat for the party.

  • During the next fortnight several prizes were made and two towns visited, from which an ample supply of bread, fowls, and wine was obtained.

  • An ample supply of fresh water having been taken on board, preparations were made for sailing.

  • An ample supply of hogs, poultry, and provisions having been obtained at Ulietea, the Endeavour again sailed.

  • The ratio for fiction in general is much higher on the average; but fiction in general includes Scott and Thackeray and other standards, an ample supply of which would not usually be questioned.

  • In my own city, some time ago, we spent half a million dollars in providing an ample supply of water.

  • On this occasion they did not have the wagon and the yaks, but they had an ample supply of food and there was no difficulty in making a fire.

  • They had an ample supply of good material in the herd to pick from, but it took time and patience to develop such a team as had been lost.

  • The team was then securely hitched, and taking all their implements, such as lamps and boards, together with two of the guns and an ample supply of ammunition, descended to the entrance.

  • It was supposed that an ample supply of food would be found in the villages on the river banks.

  • He had several of the soldiers of the garrison with him, and an ample supply of ammunition.

  • They have an ample supply of ammunition, and have assembled a large number of men.

  • Here he found that his agent had been very efficient, and that an ample supply of provisions was ready for his ships.

  • The climate was delightful, the soil fertile, supplying him, with but little culture, with an ample supply of corn, and the most nutritious vegetables.

  • He was fully assured that behind its walls and palisades bold hearts, with an ample supply of ammunition, could repel any assaults which the Indians were capable of making.

  • The hand of well-organised industry might have raised an ample supply of corn to meet all their wants through the short winter.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ample fortune; ample supply; ample time; asked for; cold wave; facing page; female slave; fifth part; great concourse; laid himself; last held; line trenches; long night; necessary part; rejoiced greatly; religious worship; she didn; she may have been; should see; soon found; third base; thrown upon; thus treated; two different