Accumulation

Examples

• In such regions, there is an accumulation of water, and a well dug there would have an abundant supply of water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• There was an accumulation of powerful force in the room, powerful and destructive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I am naturally very strong; yet I have been thoroughly shaken lately by an accumulation of trouble. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The expense, too, which is laid out in durable commodities, is favourable not only to accumulation, but to frugality. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In raising the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates in the same manner as simple interest does in the accumulation of debt. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This crust is due to the accumulation in the kettle of mineral matter which was in solution in the water, but which was left behind when the water evaporated. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• This is one small sample of the vast accumulation of vulgar marvels that presently sprang up about the memory of Gautama. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• By the middle of January all his work was done, except the accumulation of supplies to commence his movement with. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The parsimony which leads to accumulation has become almost as rare in republican as in monarchical governments. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• So that the lofty pile of sedimentary rocks in Britain gives but an inadequate idea of the time which has elapsed during their accumulation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• There was no accumulation of fallen debris, forming a more or less rough ascent to them, as is the case with nearly all other cliffs I have ever seen. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It is evident this great stretch of country was becoming a region of accumulation for these barbaric peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The accumulation and acquisition of information for purposes of reproduction in recitation and examination is made too much of. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The greater the accumulation of deceit and trouble in the world, the brighter and the purer shone the star of Dora high above the world. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• No accumulation could have supported so great an annual profusion. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In like manner a heavy rain-storm cleaned the tracks from the accumulations due chiefly to the droppings of the horses, which otherwise served largely to increase the conductivity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Our world to-day draws upon relatively immense accumulations of knowledge of fact. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Vast accumulations of material and energy have gone into warlike preparations and warfare. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• One reads in vain through the monstrous accumulations of Napoleonic literature for a single record of self-forgetfulness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was a mixture of growths and accumulations entirely different from anything that has ever been called an empire before. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Previously his story was overlaid by monstrous accumulations of legend, and his teaching violently misconceived. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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