Quantities

Examples

• A siren worked by explosion of small quantities of oxygen and hydrogen mixed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Generally speaking, meats are the most expensive foods we can purchase, and hence should be bought seldom and in small quantities. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The steam-shovel did not discriminate, but picked up handily single pieces weighing five or six tons and loaded them on the skips with quantities of smaller lumps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The cap suggested the necessity and invention of machines for making them quickly and in great quantities. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They had reduced the force of earlier times by making larger quantities by better processes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This soon resulted in sending great quantities of rubber overshoes to Europe and America. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Gold has been found in smaller or larger quantities in nearly all parts of the world. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It yields quantities of asphaltum; fragments of it lie all about its banks; this stuff gives the place something of an unpleasant smell. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This dissolves in water, but when boiled in large quantities of the same it is decomposed into glycerine and boracic acid. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• They will do this, I say, more nearly than equal quantities of almost any other commodity; for even equal quantities of corn will not do it exactly. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Honey, glycerine, and mucilage acacia equal quantities of each sufficient to make into a paste of the desired consistence. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The same kind of gas may also be obtained in smaller quantities by the distillation of tar, rosin, or pitch. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Gold had been retained only for international trade, and every government had produced excessive quantities of paper money for domestic use. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The latter was a feeble child, and it was only by prodigious quantities of calomel that Lady Southdown was able to keep him in life at all. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Large quantities of the cheaper class of watches are now made by machinery in the United States, Switzerland, France, Germany and England. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In these were found large quantities of iron, considerable percentages of nickel, as well as cobalt, copper, silicon, phosphorus, c arbon, magnesium, zinc, and manganese. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Suddenly, the atmosphere was impregnated with the odour of the Indian berry, which grew in immense quantities around me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He who hath proportioned and given proper quantities to all things, was not unmindful of this. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Warnings of frosts and of freezing weather have enabled the growers of such products to protect and save large quantities of valuable plants. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• For weak and infrequent currents such as are used in the electric bell, only small quantities of zinc are needed, and the expense is small. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The tremendous problems of heat and the prohibitive quantities of copper that would be required for conductors for such lamps would be absolutely out of the question in commercial practice. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It would, after such an alteration, be payable with the same quantity of gold as before, but with very different quantities of silver. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If, however, equal quantities of different substances are exposed, the temperatures resulting from the heating will not necessarily be the same. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The fact that some implements are polished does not preclude the presence of great quantities of implements of unpolished stone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But larger quantities are now manufactured in the United States, and it is only a matter of time when the Young American salute will take the place of the Chinese firecrackers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Many irrigating systems use centrifugal pumps to force water over long distances and to supply it in quantities sufficient for vast agricultural needs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The sea is a vast reservoir of potash, and seaweed, especially the giant kelp, absorbs large quantities of this potash. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Powders taken in small quantities and at rare intervals are apparently harmless; but they never remove the cause of the trouble, and hence the discomfort soon returns with renewed force. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I knew it was silly, but they flattered me and said I was a beauty, and quantities of nonsense, so I let them make a fool of me. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Plants need other foods besides nitrogen, and they exhaust the soil not only of nitrogen, but also of phosphorus and potash, since large quantities of these are necessary for plant life. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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