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Example sentences for "considerable quantity"

  • I had occasion to make these remarks during a course of experiments upon platina, in which I dissolved a considerable quantity of that metal in nitro-muriatic acid.

  • From this it appears that water, even in the state of ice, contains a considerable quantity of caloric, and that oxygen, in entering into that combination, retains likewise a good proportion.

  • They found there a considerable quantity of ammunition and provisions, conveyed thither by the convicts in order to form a reserve.

  • The wood, being very dry, would burn rapidly; it was therefore necessary to carry to the Chimneys a considerable quantity, and the loads of two men would not be sufficient.

  • All their property was packed up in bales, among which there was a considerable quantity of tribute, which had been collected on purpose to be sent to Mexico.

  • About this time likewise a vessel arrived with seven horses, forty hogs, eight pipes of salted meat, a considerable quantity of biscuit, and fifteen adventurers from Cuba.

  • De Oli, likewise, had now returned from Mechoacan, which he had reduced to submission, bringing with him the principal cacique of that country and several other chiefs, with a considerable quantity of gold.

  • Johnson found in the foliage a considerable quantity of starch and gum, rendering it nutritious.

  • Finding the island inaccessible, they took a considerable quantity of fish, and procured a supply of fresh water, after which they determined to pursue their voyage.

  • At Quito is made a considerable quantity of coarse woollen cloth, worn only by the lower class all over the kingdom of Peru.

  • One of these animals will yield a considerable quantity of oil, which is sweet and answers well for frying.

  • Fields and Drewyer had killed several buffaloe at the bend of the missouri above the falls and had dryed a considerable quantity of meat; they had also killed several deer but no Elk.

  • A great professor used to come and give them lessons, and I used to stand and listen, by which means I picked up a considerable quantity of what is called rhetoric.

  • Before Christmas, Murtagh was playing at cards with his brother Denis, and I could speak a considerable quantity of broken Irish.

  • During these five days, the fleet procured a considerable quantity of hens from a village on the coast called Tangata.

  • A considerable quantity of cloth is manufactured in the place, which likewise abounds in various merchandize, but I did not hear of any pearls or precious stones.

  • Peas, when young, are tender and sweet, containing a considerable quantity of sugar.

  • To correct this bitterness, mix with the yeast a considerable quantity of water, and let it stand for some hours, when the thickest portion will have settled at the bottom.

  • A considerable quantity of the juice may be thus prepared and put into stone jars, to be used as needed.

  • When about two miles from our last camp, we came upon a tribe of natives fishing in a water-hole, near which a considerable quantity of large and small fish was heaped.

  • We collected a considerable quantity of the marjoram, and added it to our tea, with the double intention, of improving its flavour, and of saving our stock; we also used it frequently as a condiment in our soup.

  • We gathered a considerable quantity of Nelumbium seeds, which were very palatable, and, when roasted and pounded, made a most excellent substitute for coffee.

  • As the inhabitants were much engaged in commerce, there were in the town always a considerable quantity of merchandize.

  • That they were also exported in considerable quantity to the south of Europe, appears from other documents.

  • On the bank of the Turkey river is a village of Reynard Indians, who raise there a considerable quantity of corn.

  • They cut down a considerable quantity of timber for the formation of huts; and constructed tolerably comfortable habitations.

  • On the 29th of October, a considerable quantity of snow fell, and ice floated along the current.

  • I was led to believe that a considerable quantity of fine earth is washed quite away from castings during rain, from the surfaces of old ones being often studded with coarse particles.

  • The following cases show that a considerable quantity of fine earth is washed down.

  • Therefore no doubt a considerable quantity of fine earth has been washed down from the upper parts of the field, and has largely aided in the burial of these remains.

  • Castings ejected during dry weather and which have set hard, lose in the same manner a considerable quantity of fine earth.

  • By natural order they are cruciferous plants; and all contain much nitrogen, or vegetable albumen, with a considerable quantity of sulphur; hence they tend strongly to putrefaction, and when decomposed their odour is very offensive.

  • Anyhow [130] there is much sulphur possessed by the whole plant in one form or another, together with a considerable quantity of mineral matter.

  • The flowers and leaves are found to afford a considerable quantity of oil and of ammoniacal salts.

  • The dried Figs of the shops give no idea of the fresh fruit as enjoyed in Italy at breakfast, which then seem indeed a fruit of paradise, and which contain a considerable quantity of grape sugar.

  • It affords a considerable quantity of fragrant, aromatic oil, which partakes of the characters exercised by the leaves and the flowers as affecting the nervous system.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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