Enormous in A Sentence

    1

    A few of the modern Jewish houses have been embellished at an enormous cost, but they are wanting in taste.

    2

    A fragment of the once enormous Palazzo Mocenigo, of the 16th century, is now occupied by the important archaeological museum (see Ateste).

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    A great fire broke out in the fort in the same year and caused enormous loss; but it enabled the government to open wider thoroughfares in the more congested parts, and greatly stimulated the tendency of the natives to build their houses and 1 See Hunter, op. cit.

    4

    A great self publicist he had enormous energy and charm.

    5

    A large region was sunken, enormous fissures were opened in the earth, the surface soil was displaced 3 In 1804, the District of Louisiana, in the administrative system of the Territory of Indiana; in 1805, an independent government, renamed the Territory of Louisiana; in 1812, the Territory of Missouri; in 1816, another grade of territorial government.

    6

    A man of enormous energy and great personal charm, Simpson was a keen controversialist and much loved physician.

    7

    A numerous floating population of labourers, attracted at certain periods by pressing work in the port, and afterwards left unemployed owing to the enormous fluctuations in the corn trade, is one of the features of Odessa.

    8

    A state sponsoring such a threat will doubtless go to enormous lengths to ensure that plausible deniability is firmly in place.

    9

    A very clever Scotch adventurer named John Law now offered his assistance in dealing with the enormous debt of more than three milliards, and in providing the treasury.

    10

    A whole mass of facts testify to the enormous and extraordinary influence of Potemkin during the next ten years.

    11

    Accordingly on the morning of the 16th of August 1717 Prince Eugene ordered a general attack, which resulted in the total defeat of the enemy with an enormous loss, and in the capitulation of the city six days afterwards.

    12

    Aepyornis maxima, which laid enormous eggs, and not unnaturally recalls the mythical " roc " that figures so largely in Arabian tales.

    13

    Africa during the Cretaceous period (after the deposition of the Stormberg beds), and drilled these enormous craters through all the later formations.

    14

    After much coaxing and pulling and pushing, I smelled fresh air and felt an enormous wave of relief.

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    AgricultureDespite the enormous development of industries and commerce, agriculture and cattle-rearing still represent in Germany a considerable portion of its economic wealth.

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    Alex was the reluctant heir to an enormous amount of land and money.

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    All of the downstairs rooms give access to the enormous, shaded terrace that runs the full length of the house.

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    Also, however honest the researchers, there is enormous scope for the human subconscious to intrude in order to optimize the results.

    19

    Also, I'm absolutely sure I spotted an enormous goof.

    20

    Also, the phones that you need for this service are enormous, very heavy and damn ugly too.

    21

    Although enormous quantities of water are required during the summer season, great care must be exercised in applying water to the winter crops.

    22

    Although he encountered enormous obstacles, including famine and mutiny, the hostility and treachery of the natives and of foreigners, and the neglect of the home government, he laid a sure foundation for permanent Spanish occupation.

    23

    Although the administration of the above-mentioned acts of parliament has had a beneficial effect upon the safety of the public, and has enabled an enormous volume of traffic Safety to be handled with celerity, punctuality and absence Y?

    24

    Although the Berber tongue shows a certain affinity with Semitic in the construction both of its words and sentences Berber is quite distinct from the Semitic languages; and a remarkable fact is that in spite of the enormous space over which the dialects are spread and the thousands of years that some of the Berber peoples have been isolated from the rest, these dialects show but slight differences from the long-extinct Hamitic speech from which all are derived.

    25

    Among the striped species, or zebras and quaggas of Africa, the large Grevy's zebra (Equus grevyi) of Somaliland and Abyssinia stands apart from the rest by the number and narrowness of its stripes, which have an altogether peculiar arrangement on the hind-quarters, the small size of the callosities on the fore-legs, the mane extending on to the withers and enormous rounded ears, thickly haired internally.

    26

    An enormous amount of hard work will be needed from responsible commentators and politicians in the coming days to explain away the mass abstention.

    27

    An enormous gap severs the pre-monarchical period from this age, and while the tribal schemes and tribal traditions can hardly be traced during the monarchies, the inclusion of Judah among the " sons " of Israel would not have originated when Judah and Israel were rival kingdoms. Yet the tribes survive in post-exilic literature and their traditions develop henceforth in Jubilees, Testament of the XII Patriarchs, &c.

    28

    An enormous hit in its native Hong Kong, this has already spawned a prequel, with a sequel on the way.

    29

    An enormous increase of business, consequent upon the use of steam machinery and free-trade openings to commerce, filled the land with prosperity, and discredited all statesmanship but that which steered by the star over Manchester.

    30

    And some will use enormous amounts of effort and energy to try to achieve this nirvana.

    31

    And there has been enormous progress in fighting river blindness, guinea worm, diarrheal diseases, and others.

    32

    And while a handful of employers are reacting, the gap between expectation and reality remains enormous.

    33

    Another great source of inexpensive furs is China, and for many years past enormous quantities of dressed furs, many of which are made up in the form of linings and Chinese looseshaped garments, have been imported by England, Germany and France for the lower class of business; the garments are only regarded as so much fur and are reworked.

    34

    Another important source of the river (considered by Curzon to be the chief source) is to be found in the enormous glaciers which lie about the upper or main branch of the Ab-i-Panja (called the Ab-i-Wakhjir or Wakhan), which rises under the mountains enclosing the head of the Taghdumbash Pamirs.

    35

    Answers to these questions, even partial ones, would be of enormous value.

    36

    Applying the same method of careful observation to the sun and planets, and later to some of the constellations and to many of the fixed stars, it will be apparent that the body of observations noted must have grown in the course of time to large and indeed to enormous proportions, and correspondingly the interpretations assigned to the nearly endless variations in the phenomena thus observed.

    37

    Appointed a member of the second royal commission on the pollution of rivers in 1868, he was provided by the government with a completely-equipped laboratory, in which, for a period of six years, he carried on the inquiries necessary for the purposes of that body, and was thus the means of bringing to light an enormous amount of valuable information respecting the contamination of rivers by sewage, trade-refuse, &c., and the purification of water for domestic use.

    38

    As a natural consequence of this activity, the trade in beeappliance making has assumed enormous proportions in the United States, where extensive factories have been established; one firm - employing over 500 hands, - and using electric-power machinery of the most modern type - being devoted entirely to the manufacture of bee-goods and apiarian requisites.

    39

    As a satirist and observer he is simply the "Cooper who 's written six volumes to prove he's as good as a Lord" of Lowell's clever portrait; his enormous vanity and his irritability find vent in a sort of dull violence, which is exceedingly tiresome.

    40

    As an arithmetical calculator he was not only wonderfully expert, but he seems to have occasionally found a positive delight in working out to an enormous number of places of decimals the result of some irksome calculation.

    41

    As Heeren's pupil, he laid enormous stress on the importance of original authorities.

    42

    As soon as Rostov heard them, an enormous load of doubt fell from him.

    43

    As the result of all these efforts there has been an enormous increase in the demand for fruit trees of all kinds.

    44

    As the season advances and the flowers yield nectar more freely, visible signs of combbuilding will be observed in the whitened edges of empty cells in the brood-chambers; the thoughtful workers are lengthening out the cells for honey-storing, and the bee-master takes the hint by giving room in advance, thus lessening the chance of undesired swarms. In other words, order and method, combined with the habit of taking time by the forelock, are absolutely necessary to the bee-keeper, seeing that the enormous army of workers under his control is multiplying daily by scores of thousands.

    45

    Associated with these crustal movements were enormous outpourings of volcanic materials.

    46

    At Baltimore he gave an enormous impetus to the study of the higher mathematics in America, and during the time he was there he contributed to the American Journal of Mathematics, of which he was the first editor, no less than thirty papers, some of great length, dealing mainly with modern algebra, the theory of numbers, theory of partitions and universal algebra.

    47

    At seven in the morning a French convoy in marching trim, wearing shakos and carrying muskets, knapsacks, and enormous sacks, stood in front of the sheds, and animated French talk mingled with curses sounded all along the lines.

    48

    At the beginning of the 19th century black bears were killed in enormous numbers for their furs, which at that time were highly valued.

    49

    At the same time there is a threat posed to human freedom by the enormous power of the modern state.

    50

    Atahuallpa, thus treacherously captured, offered an enormous sum of money as a ransom, and fulfilled his engagement; but Pizarro still detained him, until the Spaniards 'should have arrived in sufficient numbers to secure the country.

    51

    Balleny's Sabrina Land, D'Urville's Cote Clarie and most of the land reported by Wilkes were found not to exist, though an enormous ice-tongue which might well have been taken for part of the continent occupied the position of Termination Land.

    52

    Besides an abundance of water in summer there must also be an enormous quantity of good stable manure available during the winter months.

    53

    Besides the poems, we possess the prose Tristan, an enormous compilation, akin to the prose Lancelot, where the original story, though still to be traced, is obscured by a mass of later Arthurian adventures.

    54

    Boo and Baa's hilarious brand of straight-faced humor and silly misadventures have enormous appeal for preschoolers, whether domestically inclined or not.

    55

    Boston still plan to fill their vacant reserve berth on Press day for which there has been enormous interest from aspiring riders.

    56

    Both locomotives were still busy marshaling some enormous bogie hopper wagons that were being filled via tips from the narrow gage line above.

    57

    Built in the age of the big bangers, designed to go fast on the enormous banked Brooklands outer circuit.

    58

    But because The English Patient suddenly became enormous, someone bought up all his books.

    59

    But he lost 15,000 men in the course of his seven days' retreat, and 20% of the remainder became ineffective from disease contracted in the swamps of the Chickahominy, while enormous quantities of valuable stores at White House on the Pamunkey had been burnt to avoid seizure by the enemy.

    60

    But if the object be, as in the case of the greater zoological institutions, to get together as many species as possible, and to exhibit animals that have not been hitherto obtained, the possible range is enormous and the cost very great.

    61

    But it was inevitable that the enormous advances made by the physical and other sciences in modern times should bring with them a reasoned attempt to bring the phenomena of consciousness within the sphere controlled by physical laws and natural necessity.

    62

    But not to speak of his enormous collection of MS. books, full to overflowing with new and original matter, which have been handed over to Trinity College, Dublin, the works we have already called attention to barely form the greater portion of what he has published.

    63

    But of late years there has been an enormous influx of Anglo-Indian rupees, so that these have become practically the currency of the country, even to the frontier of China, and are now counted, instead of being valued as bullion.

    64

    But on the modern theory, which includes the play of electrical phenomena as a function of the aether, there are other considerations which show that this number io 2 is really an enormous overestimate; and it is not impossible that the co-efficient of ultimate inertia of the aether is greater than the co-efficient of inertia (of different kind) of any existing material substance.

    65

    But Philip's whole thoughts and energies were already directed to the preparation of an Invincible Armada for the conquest of England, and Parma was ordered to collect an enormous flotilla of transports and to keep his army concentrated and trained for the projected invasion of the island realm of Queen Elizabeth.

    66

    By 1796 the issues had reached the enormous figure of 45,500,000,000 francs, and even this gigantic total was swollen still more by the numerous counterfeits introduced into France from the neighbouring countries.

    67

    By his energy, industry and sound judgment he gradually enlarged his operations, did business in all the fur markets of the world, and amassed an enormous fortune, - the largest up to that time made by any American.

    68

    By the union of great moral qualities with high, though not the highest, intellectual faculties, he carried the Indian empire safely through the stress of the storm, and, what was perhaps a harder task still, he dealt wisely with the enormous difficulties arising at the close of such a war, established a more liberal policy and a sounder financial system, and left the people more contented than they were before.

    69

    C. Miall's Aquatic Insects (London, 1895), the special literature of the Coleoptera is enormous.

    70

    Caesar had no resource left but uncompromising obstruction, which he sustained by enormous bribes.

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    Campbell (1768-1848), whose brief and disastrous term had been marked by wholesale bank suspensions, and an enormous depreciation of state and national bank notes.

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    Can become faulty leading to enormous potential data loss!

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    Chemnitz is in general well built, the enormous development of its industry and commerce having of late years led to the laying out of many fine streets and to the embellishing of the town with handsome buildings.

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    Clearly such alterations as the construction of railways in nearly all parts of the continent, and the establishment of peace over formerly disturbed areas like India, are of enormous importance, and must change the life of the people.

    75

    Closely related to the typical aphides is Phylloxera vastatrix, the insect which causes enormous loss by attacking the leaves and roots of vines.

    76

    Coal was produced in 1908 in 30 states out of the 46 of the Union; and occurs also in enormous quantities in Alaska; 690,438 men were employed in this year in the coal mines.

    77

    Combine the two buildings and you have a potentially enormous event.

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    Common species in the woodbush are three varieties of yellow wood (Podocarpus), often growing to an enormous size, the Cape beech (myrsine), several varieties of the wild pear (Olivia) and of stinkwood (Oreodaphne) ironwood and ebony.

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    Computational prediction methods have enormous potential for the future of clinical and experimental immunology.

    80

    Continuous grazing encourages an enormous variety of plants including many spectacular flowers.

    81

    Cromwell thoroughly approved of the enormous scheme of confiscation and colonization, causing great privations and sufferings, which was carried out.

    82

    Cutting back on the number of tests taken by young people will help relieve pressure on young people at a time of enormous transition.

    83

    Declan Quigley was part of the enormous Irish contingent at the Festival.

    84

    Depending on budget, there's an enormous amount of choice.

    85

    Despite an enormous effort, only about 4,000 of the structures are known, with most determined by X-ray crystallography.

    86

    Despite the dismal surroundings Cy's band drew an enormous following from, initially, art school students with a distinctly Bohemian bent.

    87

    Despite the enormous capacity of the human brain, we only utilize on average less than three percent of our potential brainpower.

    88

    Despite the enormous expense of maintaining the army, Matthias, after the first ten years of his reign, was never in want of money.

    89

    Distributed computing makes enormous computational problems affordable to solve.

    90

    Dr Bather justifiably anticipates further discoveries, but if, already in Silurian as in modern times, the members of these families had to pass through nauplius and cypris stages to maturity, there is one " enormous gap " between them and the common ancestor of the crustacean class that will not be easily filled.

    91

    During the 1950s and 1960s it enjoyed enormous cachet among visitors from North West England, the Borders, Wales and Ireland.

    92

    During the early years an enormous amount was wasted; this was soon prohibited by law, and a realization that the supply was not unlimited resulted in a better appreciation of its great value.

    93

    During the era of so-called " prosperity " between 1881 and 1890 an enormous amount of bank notes were issued under various authorizations, especially that of the " free banking law " of 1887.

    94

    During the greater part of the 18th century there was a serious check to the increase of population, but at the end of the century a considerable increase occurred, and in the middle of the 19th century the enormous annual increase became particularly marked.

    95

    Eastward of the Archean gneiss in the west of Sutherland the effect of enormous underground pressure has been to upraise masses of the ancient gneiss and Torridonian sandstone and thrust them westward over the younger rocks.

    96

    Eclipse commenced his stud career in 1771, and had an enormous number of foals, of which four only in the direct male line have come down to us, viz.

    97

    Enormous flocks of these sheep are kept in the deserts around Bukhara.

    98

    Enormous meetings, convened by the priesthood, and directed or controlled by O'Connell, assembled in 1842-1843, and probably nine-tenths of the Irish Catholics were unanimous in the cry for repeal.

    99

    Enormous numbers of ale-houses were closed - a proceeding which excited intense resentment and was probably no slight cause of the royalist reaction.

    100

    Enormous numbers of animals are caught, chiefly in traps, to supply the demand of the fur trade, Siberia and North America being the principal localities from which they are obtained.

    101

    Enormous numbers of flints and also less abundant fragments of chalk are found in glacial deposits bordering the Moray Firth.

    102

    Enormous quantities of cherries, plums and apples are annually borne by the trees round Leipzig, Dresden and Colditz.

    103

    Enormous sky blue eyes gazed back at her hauntingly from a face too thin to be attractive.

    104

    Enormous were the difficulties of Casimir IV.

    105

    Enormous, mystical tomes contain the wealth of arcane knowledge gathered by mages over the centuries of this guild's existence.

    106

    Even enormous maize mazes which are cut out of fields of growing corn and which last for a single summer season.

    107

    Even the top medical scientists now claim that a good chortle has an enormous effect on the way we live our lives.

    108

    Few people realize what enormous sums of money are annually distributed in connexion with hunting.

    109

    Financially Athens had an enormous apparent advantage.

    110

    First, after burning the old straw of the previous year - which is real labour in itself, so enormous is its bulk - comes the ploughing.

    111

    First, since the great and growing modern city stands right over the ancient one, it is almost impossible to find any considerable space in which to dig, except at enormous cost.

    112

    Fj olnir had in the beginning a hard struggle against old prejudices, but as the years went by its influence became enormous; and when it at last ceased, its programme and spirit still lived in N5' Filagsrit and other patriotic periodicals which took its place.

    113

    For an increase in the navy there was, indeed, sufficient excuse in the enormous expansion of German over-sea commerce and the consequent growth of the mercantile marine; the value of foreign trade, which in 1894 was 365,000,000, had risen in 1904 to 610,000,000, and in the same period the tonnage of German merchant shipping had increased by 234%.

    114

    Formerly Rio led all other ports in the export of coffee, but the enormous increase in production in the state of Sao Paulo has given Santos the lead.

    115

    France had been irritated by the enormous increase of Prussian power, and even.

    116

    Frequent annealings are necessary to prevent fracture of the metal; but with these and the observance of certain other precautions of a practical character the degree of extension possible is enormous.

    117

    From here visit the enticing colonial town of Taxco or the enormous Aztec pyramids at Teotihuacán.

    118

    From the back of his jumbo limo, he produced champagne, enormous king prawns and salmon to feed us great unwashed.

    119

    From this theory, powerful in Great Britain and her colonies, supreme in the United States of America, has resulted an enormous multiplication of sects.

    120

    Gabe sensed Rhyn's words came from an enormous amount of thought.

    121

    Genial in private life, he was harsh and unyielding in his official capacity, and his singular skill in devising fresh taxes to meet the enormous demands of Napoleon's government made him the best-hated man in Lombardy, the more so that, being a Piedmontese, he was regarded as a foreigner.

    122

    Griesbach, basic volcanic rocks are interbedded with the lowest part of the plant-bearing series, and enormous outbursts took place during the Neocomian period.

    123

    Hardly known outside of Holland, among his own people for nearly two centuries he enjoyed an enormous popularity.

    124

    He also endeavoured to weaken the power of the clergy and to apply a portion of their enormous revenues to purposes of national utility.

    125

    He brings invaluable retail experience as well as enormous energy and a genuine passion for the books.

    126

    He died in London on the 25th of January 1824, in the house of John Finlayson, who had secured his release, and who afterwards pestered the government with an enormous claim for Brothers's maintenance.

    127

    He had little difficulty in securing the Acts of Annates, Appeals and Supremacy which completed the separation from Rome, or the dissolution of the monasteries which, by transferring enormous wealth from the church to the crown, really, in Cecil's opinion, ensured the reformation.

    128

    He is a financier of enormous wealth, which he admittedly intends to use to achieve the destruction of American liberty.

    129

    He is represented as a middle-aged man of enormous strength, quick to anger, but benevolent towards mankind.

    130

    He is supposed to have lived for 300 years, to have ridden a horse 150 years old, and to have used his enormous physical strength against oppressors, especially against the Turks.

    131

    He lived much in Lancashire, managed his enormous estates with great skill, and did a great amount of work as a local magnate.

    132

    He repaired the Lateran and the Vatican at enormous cost, and erected a beautiful country house at Soriano near Viterbo.

    133

    He ruled like a modern capitalist; placed his bribes like investments in the courts of his enemies; and, while draining the land of enormous sums, was pitiless toward the two productive portions of his realm, the country population and the artisans.

    134

    He saw, however, great difficulties in making this the universal rule, chief among which was the enormous expense of providing suitable prisons.

    135

    He was also a writer in whom the physical wear and tear must have been enormous.

    136

    He was elected a Perse scholar in 1628, and fellow of his college in 1633, but the best evidence of his diligence as a student is the enormous learning of which he showed so easy a command in after years.

    137

    Her hatred of Germans showed itself likewise in her persistent struggle with Frederick the Great, which cost Russia 300,000 men and 30 millions of roubles - an enormous sum for those days - but in the choice of a successor she could not follow her natural inclinations, for among the few descendants of Michael Romanov there was no one, even in the female line, who could be called a genuine Russian.

    138

    Her pensions and money allowances of various kinds were enormous.

    139

    Her skin was creamy, her eyes blue, and she moved with enormous poise and grace in high-heeled silver sandals.

    140

    Here, there is a large cliff supporting an enormous nesting seabird colony.

    141

    Herodotus, Athenaeus and other Greek and Roman writers have recorded the enormous number of colossal statues and other works of art for which Babylon and Nineveh were so famed.

    142

    His activity, both public and private, as leader of the movement was enormous.

    143

    His debts were enormous, and in 1675 he resolved to make over to his creditors all his income except twenty thousand livres, and, as he said, to "live for" them.

    144

    His enormous expenditure compelled him in 1661 to grant greater control over monetary matters to the estates, a step which laid the foundation of the later system of finance in Saxony.

    145

    His immense stature and enormous feats of strength attracted the attention of the emperor Septimius Severus.

    146

    His income is said by Lucian to have reached an enormous figure.

    147

    His papers were sensational in form and contents and had an enormous popular circulation.

    148

    His sensitively honourable nature, which in early life had caused him to shrink from asserting his belief in Thirty-nine articles of faith which he had not examined, was shocked by the enormous abuses which confronted him on commencing the study of the law.

    149

    His wealth, arising from property in New York, where also he built the New Netherland hotel and the Waldorf hotel, was enormous.

    150

    His zeal for the efficient administration of justice caused him, in addition to his other heavy work, to sit during several weeks in the spring of 1921 as a judge of first instance, in order to clear off the enormous arrears in the Divorce Court.

    151

    However, often the postscript produced by applications has a lot of unoptimised header macro definition which can lead to enormous files.

    152

    Hull is the principal seat of the industry in Great Britain, and enormous quantities of Indian and Egyptian cotton seed are imported and worked up.

    153

    I mean, an apparently enormous amount of sexual activity and innuendo and attempted seduction all the time.

    154

    I now found myself facing an enormous ape, or at the very least a man wearing an ape suit.

    155

    Immediately I saw this I thought they must belong to an enormous armadillo, living species of which genus are so abundant here.

    156

    Important factors in the use of carburetted water gas for enrichment are that it can be made with enormous rapidity and with a minimum of labour; and not only is the requisite increase in illuminating power secured, but the volume of the enriched gas is increased by the bulk of carburetted water gas added, which in ordinary English practice amounts to from 25 to 50%.

    157

    In 1716 two Jesuits, P. Ipolito Desideri, of Pistoia, and P. Freyre, a Portuguese, reached Lhasa by way of Kashmir, Ladak, and the enormous journey from Ladak by the holy lakes and the valley of the Tsangpo.

    158

    In 1882, before the Physical Society of London, he gave a description of the diffraction gratings with which his name is specially associated, and which have been of enormous advantage to astronomical spectroscopy.

    159

    In 1890 the crisis came, the mortgage banks failed, credits were contracted, the value of property declined, defaults were common, imports decreased, and the losses to the country were enormous.

    160

    In addition to an enormous body of new information chiefly on the shoulder girdle, the alar muscles and the nerve plexuses of birds, this work contained a critical and descriptive summary of practically the whole pre-existing literature on the structure of birds, and it is hardly necessary for the student of ornithology to refer to earlier literature at first hand.

    161

    In addition to goods thus conveyed, enormous quantities of timber are floated down the Elbe; the Ix.

    162

    In addition to these benefits, Langstroth's frame and hive possessed the enormous advantage over Dzierzon's of being manipulated from above, so that any single frame could be raised for inspection without disturbing the others.

    163

    In April 1942, Bath suffered enormous devastation at the hands of the Luftwaffe.

    164

    In Australia and New Zealand pumice, which is found in enormous quantities in the latter country, takes the place of charcoal and silicate cotton.

    165

    In China, at the close of the period, there were enormous eruptions of melaphyre, porphyrite and quartz-porphyry.

    166

    In coloration it bears some resemblance to a chaffinch, but its much larger size and enormous beak make it easily recognizable, while on closer inspection the singular bull-hook form of some of its wing-feathers will be found to be very remarkable.

    167

    In consequence of the large influx of tourists every year the North British and Caledonian railway companies give employment to an enormous staff.

    168

    In consequence of this law the great lords were compelled to put forces in the field proportioned to their enormous fortunes, and Sigismund was able in 1529 to raise 300 foot and 3200 horse from the province of Podolia alone.

    169

    In Mesopotamia more than any other country literary results have been regarded as archaeology, owing to the enormous mass of the written material recovered, which has caused the study of the art and general civilization of different periods to be neglected in comparison with the same subjects in Egypt.

    170

    In one respect the new institution marked an enormous advance on titles of nobility, which had been granted nearly always for warlike exploits, or merely as a mark of the favour of the sovereign.

    171

    In some seasons the locusts, both red and brown, come in enormous swarms covering an area 5 m.

    172

    In South America the shell-heaps, of enormous size, are supposed to show that the animals have undergone changes in size and that such vast masses require untold ages to accumulate.

    173

    In the bye-election which followed Laurier's admission to the cabinet he was defeated-- the only personal defeat he ever sustained; but a few weeks later he was returned for Quebec East, a constituency which he held thenceforth by enormous majorities.

    174

    In the central parts of North America the lacustrine plant-bearing deposits are of enormous thickness, the Dakota series being followed by marine Cretaceous strata known as the Colorado and Montana groups, and these being succeeded conformably by a thousand feet or more of lacustrine shales, sandstones and coal-seams, belonging to the Laramie series.

    175

    In the deposits of a much more remote era than those already spoken of - the Jurassic - the bones of some enormous terrestrial lizards have been brought to light, belonging to Sauropodous Dinosaurs of the genera Bothriospondylus and Titanosaurus, and to a Theropod of the genus Megalosaurus.

    176

    In the following year the amir Yunis ed Dekeim made two successful raids into Abyssinian territory, upon which Ras Adal collected an enormous army, said to number 200,000 men, for the invasion of the Sudan.

    177

    In the forest regions north of the lakes the vegetation on the shores of Lake Erie requires a high winter temperature, while the east and north shores of Lake Superior have a boreal vegetation that shows the summer temperature of this enormous water-stretch to be quite low.

    178

    In the great plains of North America the dead were buried in barrows of enormous magnitude, which occasionally present a remarkable similarity to the barrows of Great Britain.

    179

    In the same region conglomerates have been found containing enormous blocks, apparently brought by glacial action, and said to be identical in character with those described as existing in the Transvaal.

    180

    In the UK for example, the sector as a whole consistently undervalues the enormous contribution made over the years by the co-operative movement.

    181

    In the valley between Ward Hill and the ridge of the Hamars to the south-east is situated the famous Dwarfie Stone, an enormous block of sandstone measuring 28 ft.

    182

    In their lower courses some of them form enormous intercommunicating deltas.

    183

    In Wyoming, California and Nevada enormous deposits of carbonates, mixed in some cases with sulphate and with chloride, occur.

    184

    It -is worth while to notice that this reference occurs in a chapter "De Multiplicationis et Partitionis compendiis miscellaneis," which, supposing the treatise to have been written in Napier's younger days, may have been his earliest production on a subject over which his subsequent labours were to exert so enormous an influence.

    185

    It analyzes the main reasons why supposedly rational, sophisticated organizations seem to dig enormous, disastrous holes for themselves.

    186

    It brought in the enormous sum of £1,000,312,950 from no fewer than 5,289,000 subscribers; and Mr. Law justly hailed it both as an expression of the will of the people to win the war and also as evidence of the financial ability of the country to see it to a successful conclusion.

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    It does not seem to have been the author's original intention to publish any letterpress to this enormous work, but to let the plates tell their own story, though finally, with the assistance, as is now known, of William Macgillivray, a text, on the whole more than respectable, was produced in five large Ma egil- octavos under the title of Ornithological Biography, of liyr ay.

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    It is absolutely enormous, but if you have the time, it's definitely worth a scan.

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    It is not found in nature in the free state to any extent, and although enormous quantities of its salts, especially calcium and barium sulphate, are found in many localities, the free acid is never prepared from these salts, as it is more easily obtainable in another way, viz.

    190

    It is not uncommon to find once cultivated fields abandoned because of their ravages and to see large campos completely covered with enormous ant-hills.

    191

    It is one of the largest distributing centres in the country for coal, which is received by lake, and stored in enormous coal docks for transshipment by rail throughout the west and north-west.

    192

    It is probably separated on the east from the recent deposits of the pampas by a great fault, which, however, is always concealed by an enormous mass of scree material.

    193

    It is the principal petroleum-distributing centre on the Atlantic seaboard, the enormous refineries and storehouses of the Standard Oil Company, among the largest in the world, being located here; there are connecting pipe lines with the Ohio and Pennsylvania oil fields, and with New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington.

    194

    It led, among other consequences, to an enormous misuse of bleeding.

    195

    It thus falls out that in spite of the enormous quantity of fish consumed as food or used as fertilizers year after year by the Japanese, the seas remain as richly stocked as ever.

    196

    It was a complex task of regenerating Docklands, because its diverse areas were enormous.

    197

    It was found that although some irrigation works (especially in the Bombay Deccan) would never yield a direct return of or 5%, still in a famine year they might be the means of producing a crop which would go far to do away with the necessity for spending enormous sums on famine relief.

    198

    It was her curse with men, and after five years of not dating and the enormous mission of stealing from a stranger, it was only getting worse.

    199

    It's always been her wish to bring people together, regardless of color or creed, in admiration of her enormous artificial udders.

    200

    It's never been this easy to discover the enormous sound potential of frequency modulation.

    201

    Its construction was completed at enormous expense, and it was opened for ships by the emperor in June 1869 under the name of Wilhelmshaven.

    202

    Its head is of enormous size, broad, flat and depressed, the remainder of the body appearing merely like an appendage.

    203

    Its vogue was instant and enormous.

    204

    Khatzidakis found there three large houses, each with some twenty rooms and upper storeys, and a unique collection of bronzes, an ingot, some enormous cauldrons, and a statu ette of a praying man.

    205

    Like most of the lesser apartments, it is lined with white Italian marble, and in spite of its enormous dimensions the roof is unsupported by pillars.

    206

    Local authorities are enabled to exercise similar powers for an enormous variety of municipal purposes, e.g.

    207

    Local governing authorities now discharge economic functions of enormous importance and complexity, involving sums of money larger than sufficed to run important states a generation ago.

    208

    Lying in the inadequate shade of some high grass tussocks was an enormous old lion.

    209

    Mabey's writing is richly evocative, his breadth of reference enormous.

    210

    Made of gold and three feet in length, it also contains an enormous amethyst and a superb emerald.

    211

    Many of the old chambers, some of which are of enormous size, are embellished with portals, candelabra, statues, &c., all hewn in rock-salt.

    212

    Many of these birds, to judge from the enormous size of their hind-limbs, were undoubtedly flightless, e.g.

    213

    Michael withdrew to the mountains before this overwhelming force, but, being joined by Báthory with a Transylvanian contingent, the voivode resumed the offensive, stormed Bucharest, where Sinan had entrenched a Turkish detachment, and, pursuing the main body of his forces to the Danube, overtook the rearguard and cut it to pieces, capturing enormous booty.

    214

    More companies must surely realize the enormous savings they can make from not having to provide a desk for every worker.

    215

    More than $250,000,000 has been spent by the national government for the improvement of waterways, yet no general system exists, and a large part of this enormous sum has been wasted on unimportant or impossible projects, especially in recent decades, since the river navigation has been a declining interest.

    216

    More weighty was the Du Pape of Joseph de Maistre (1819), closely reasoned and fortified with a wealth of learning, which had an enormous influence upon all those who thought that they saw in the union of " altar and throne " the palladium of society.

    217

    Mr Hain launched the program at Tywyn Primary in Port Talbot, a school which has made enormous strides in providing inclusive education.

    218

    Mr. Churchill had shown enormous vigour, industry, imagination and patriotism; but insufficient judgment and discretion.

    219

    My sister said that one of her neighbor's cats brought an enormous wood pigeon in after forcing it through the cat flap.

    220

    My tasks involved lighting their enormous bonfire (complete with Guy, made by pupils of the Firs Lower School ).

    221

    Nevertheless, their contribution to the cult of Scottish thrift was quite simply enormous.

    222

    Next in importance, to bee-keepers, is the enormous advance made in late years through the invention of a machine for manufacturing the impressed wax sheets known as " comb foundation," aptly so named, because upon it the bees build the cells wherein they store their food.

    223

    No doubt at enormous cost, the councils have succeeded in creating traffic holdups where previously there were none.

    224

    No doubt, too, the preponderance of rainfall in the west has persisted for an enormous period.

    225

    None of the above restrictions prevents the writer from producing the kind of resonant and even poetic prose that can carry an enormous punch.

    226

    Not only is the respiratory centre stimulated but the cardiac centre is acted upon both directly by the drug and indirectly for a time by the enormous rise in blood pressure due to the contraction of the arterioles all over the body.

    227

    Odysseus, having been cast ashore on the coast of Sicily, fell into the hands of Polyphemus, who shut him up with twelve of his companions in his cave, and blocked the entrance with an enormous rock.

    228

    Of the enormous number of bills brought in very few pass.

    229

    Of the first the physical characteristics are a small, thin-limbed body, hair black, short and woolly, projecting jaws, rounded, narrow, retreating forehead, long and narrow head, enormous eyebrow ridges, flat nose and dark skin.

    230

    Of the invertebrata the number is unknown, but it must be enormous.

    231

    Of these three branches the prose romances offer the most insuperable problems; none can be dated with any certainty; all are of enormous length; and all have undergone several redactions.

    232

    On the eastern side of the Kilia delta the coast-line is constantly advancing and the sea becoming shallower, owing to the enormous amount of solid deposits brought down by the river.

    233

    On the face of the Western Ghats, and on the Khasi hills, overlooking the Bay of Bengal, where the mountains catch the masses of vapour as it rises off the sea, the rainfall is enormous.

    234

    On the land-surface thus formed the Devonian lakes gathered, while the rivers poured into them enormous deposits of sand and conglomerate.

    235

    On the other hand, in agent-based simulations g t easily grows enormous, hindering any attempt at algebraic manipulation.

    236

    On the other hand, the variations in the light of the sun must be very small compared with the enormous fluctuations in the light of variable stars.

    237

    On the second day sale, which attracted an enormous ringside of buyers, trade, was again, very strong.

    238

    On the walls of the chief council chambers are a magnificent series of oil-paintings by Tintoretto and other less able Venetians - among them Tintoretto's masterpiece, "Bacchus and Ariadne," and his enormous picture of Paradise, the largest oil-painting in the world.

    239

    On this observation rests the whole of the present enormous employment of hydraulic cements.

    240

    One of their objects was the collection of murex, of which an enormous supply was needed for the dyeing industry; specially famous was the purple of the Laconian waters, the isles of Elishah of Ezek.

    241

    One thing, however, is pretty certain, and that is that the enormous dates B.C. assigned to it by de Morgan and Pumpelly cannot be accepted.

    242

    One was an enormous Lion with clear, intelligent eyes, a tawney mane bushy and well kept, and a body like yellow plush.

    243

    Others of this early race were the Cyclopes, Bronte, Sterope and Arge, and three children of enormous strength, Cottus, Briareus (Aegaeon) and Gyes, each with one hundred hands and fifty heads.

    244

    Outside these reserves enormous tracts of forest and jungle still remain for clearance and cultivation, reservation being mostly confined to forest land unsuitable for crops.

    245

    Outside this again is an envelope of matter of enormous extent and extreme tenuity, whether gaseous or partly minute liquid or solid drops, which is called the corona.

    246

    Over this line passes an enormous trade from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean - the railway with its "Empress" steamers on the Pacific and also on the Atlantic Ocean claiming to have as its termini Liverpool and Yokohama.

    247

    Owing to the enormous demand for comb-foundation at that time various devices were tried with the view of securing (I) more rapid production, and (2) a foundation thin enough to be used in surplus chambers when working for comb-honey intended for table use.

    248

    Peaceful meadow You stand in the tall grass of an enormous grassy meadow.

    249

    Pennsylvania has extensive areas of limestone rock suitable for making cement, and in Northampton and Lehigh counties enormous quantities of it are used in this industry.

    250

    Phallic emblems, for averting evil, were plentiful; the summit of the tomb of Alyattes is crowned with an enormous one of stone, about 9 ft.

    251

    Pigs of this breed are very prolific, and they may be grown to enormous weights - over 11 cwt.

    252

    Practically all the company's servants were traders in their private capacity, and as they claimed various privileges and exemptions this system was detrimental to the interests of the native princes and gave rise to an enormous amount of corruption.

    253

    Pythons occur throughout the group, and sometimes attain enormous size.

    254

    Quite clearly battlefield munitions had the capacity to cause enormous suffering.

    255

    Raccoons are used in enormous quantities in Canada for men's coats, the fur outside.

    256

    Read the mystical book I am sending you; it has an enormous success here.

    257

    Reptiles - snakes, lizards and chameleons, crocodiles, turtles and an enormous variant of the edible Indian crab - are numerous; butterflies and insects, the latter very troublesome, have not yet been systematically collected.

    258

    Restaurant meals are super sized and bloated on enormous platters.

    259

    Salamanders, far from being able to withstand the action of fire, as was believed by the ancients, are only found in damp places, and emerge in misty weather only or after thunderstorms, when they may appear in enormous numbers in localities where at other times their presence would not be suspected.

    260

    Sennacherib made Nineveh his court residence and, after his destruction of Babylon and the influx of the enormous booty brought back from his conquests, it must have been the most magnificent and wealthiest city of the East.

    261

    Several of them thought of restoring the lost empire by force, and thus giving a pendant to the fourth crusade; but the Curia finally realized the enormous difficulties of such a project, and convinced themselves that the only practical solution of the difficulty was to come to an understanding with the Palaeologi and realize pacifically the long-dreamed Church.

    262

    Sharks are caught in enormous numbers with hook and harpoon; the flesh is considered by some to have aphrodisiacal properties; the dried fins and tails are exported to China; the oil is used for smearing boats.

    263

    Sherman's march across the state (February - March, 1865) was accomplished by an enormous destruction of property by fire and pillage.

    264

    Similarly the depressant action on the respiratory centre in the medulla oblongata occurs only after the administration of enormous doses.

    265

    Since 1838 the Napoleonic propaganda had made enormous progress.

    266

    So long as Mr. Lloyd George was Minister, Dr. Addison was his right-hand man in the strenuous labours of the office, resulting in the enormous multiplication of engines of war, and in the redeeming of many vital industries, fertilizers, tungsten and potash from German control; and when Mr. Lloyd George formed a Government himself in December 1916, he placed him at the head of the department.

    267

    Some five years later, on the nomination of the duke of Wellington, William Broughton was sent out to work in this enormous jurisdiction as archdeacon of Australia.

    268

    Some of these are of enormous extent, e.g.

    269

    Some species are minute filamentous plants, requiring the microscope for their detection; others, like Lessonia, are of considerable bulk, or, like Macrocystis, of enormous length.

    270

    Sometimes enormous rocks have fallen from the mountains and spread over the river-bed causing huge whirlpools.

    271

    South West Water's new hydro turbine has been successfully commissioned at Littlehempston water treatment works to generate enormous amounts of environmentally friendly energy.

    272

    Stretching virtually the length of the park is an enormous zip wire.

    273

    Subsequently, in the Tertiary period, there were two enormous outpourings of volcanic material - first andesitic lava, and later, after a long interval of quiet, rhyolitic - which nearly half filled the basin, converted it into a plateau and broke up the mountain rim.

    274

    Such profound changes must necessarily have been accompanied by enormous elimination; the migrating hosts were perpetually thinned by falling out on the way.

    275

    Supreme in Europe, the papacy gathered into a body of doctrine of the decisions given in virtue of its enormous de facto power, and promulgated its collected decrees and oracula to form the immutable law of the Christian world.

    276

    That there was enormous potential for development in the staging of the event was undeniable; how to realize it was a problem.

    277

    The ' Lionheart ' was eventually freed but only after an enormous ransom had been paid.

    278

    The accessions in that decade from Ireland and Germany were enormous, the total immigration rising to 1,713,251 against 599,125 during the decade preceding, and against only 143,439 from 2820 to 1830.

    279

    The action covers two days, but in memory many decades, for the members of this enormous family are wonderful raconteurs.

    280

    The addition of 15.2% of manganese produced an enormous effect C.R., 1897, 124, 176 and 1515; 1897, 125, 235; 1898, 126, 738.2 Ibid., 1898, 126, 741.

    281

    The adjacent loch is a favourite breeding-place for the sea-birds, which resort to the coast of Elginshire in enormous numbers.

    282

    The advantages that led to the very rapid introduction of this system were not only the power of greatly reducing the size of the piers, but the enormous facility afforded for quick construction, the small amount of materials relatively used and the proportionately small load upon the foundations, and the fact that as the walls are supported at each storey directly from the cage, the masonry can be begun at any storey independently of the masonry below it.

    283

    The Alai valley is in ill repute because of the enormous masses of snow which fall in it in the winter.

    284

    The Amazon region is frequented by the giboia (boa constrictor), and the central plateau by the sucurid (Eunectes murinus), both distinguished for their enormous size.

    285

    The amount of alluvial matter carried is enormous; from Ruwenzori alone the detritus is very great.

    286

    The amount of forage that may be produced in this way is enormous; 50,000 to 80,000 lb of green fodder are grown per acre, which makes 8000 to 12,000 lb as field-cured.

    287

    The angler is believed to attract other fishes by means of its lure, and then to seize them with its enormous jaws.

    288

    The appetite of the Welsh people for sermons is enormous, and the preachers are characterized by an exceptionally high order of pulpit power.

    289

    The balloons had to be kept fully inflated - hence the enormous size of the hanger.

    290

    The bishops, the real inheritors of the imperial idea of government, had become great landowners through enormous donatkins made to the Church, and allied as they were to the aristocracy, whence their ranks were continually recruited, they had gradually identified themselves with the interests of their class and had adopted its customs; while thanhi to long minorities and civil wars the aristocracy of the high officials had taken an equally important social position.

    291

    The Bolsheviks took the lead and won enormous prestige.

    292

    The car casting system deserves description chiefly because it shows how, when the scale of operations is as enormous as it is in the Bessemer process, even a slight simplification and a slight heatsaving may be of great economic importance.

    293

    The ceremony took place in the Champ de Mars (July 14, 1790) in presence of the king, the queen, the Assembly, and an enormous concourse of spectators.

    294

    The Chenier literature of late years has become enormous.

    295

    The chief advantage of this apparatus is that a low temperature can be used for fixing owing to the enormous surface for superheating, and thus to a great extent the deposition of carbon is avoided.

    296

    The Civil War caused enormous losses to the merchant marine, and the worldwide substitution about this time of iron steamers for wooden steamers and sailing vessels contributed to prevent a recovery; because, although ship-building was one of the earliest arts developed in the colonies, and one that was prosecuted with the highest success so long as wooden ships were the dominant type, the United States has never achieved marked success with the iron steamer, and the law has precluded the registry as American of vessels built abroad.

    297

    The climate of Tibet varies so greatly over the enormous area and different altitudes of the country that no two travellers agree precisely in their records.

    298

    The colossus stood for fifty-six years, till an earthquake prostrated it in 224 B.C. Its enormous fragments continued to excite wonder in the time of Pliny, and were not removed till A.D.

    299

    The country suffered enormous territorial losses by the war.

    300

    The cramped position atop high scaffolding for four years caused him enormous discomfort.

    301

    The crater is home to enormous quantities of wild game and birds, including the rare black rhinoceros.

    302

    The destruction of property was enormous, the hardest-working and best tax-paying element in the country was destroyed, or impoverished, and where the breadwinners were killed the women and children were left destitute.

    303

    The difficulties are arresting dozens of riders on horseback in open, often rugged, countryside are enormous.

    304

    The discovery of gold in that year attracted enormous numbers of immigrants annually.

    305

    The duration of the war was due to the nature of the country and the enormous distances to be traversed, not to any want of energy, for the armies were in deadly earnest and their battles and combats (of which two thousand four hundred can be named) sterner than those of almost any war in modern history.

    306

    The early fifties was a period of enormous intellectual ferment.

    307

    The earth has an enormous molten core that contains vast amounts of energy.

    308

    The eBay marketplace reflects the enormous power of the Internet to unite humanity at a crucial moment in history.

    309

    The eighth and largest group, which in its enormous numbers was to the others as ninety-nine to one, consisted of men who desired neither peace nor war, neither an advance nor a defensive camp at the Drissa or anywhere else, neither Barclay nor the Emperor, neither Pfuel nor Bennigsen, but only the one most essential thing--as much advantage and pleasure for themselves as possible.

    310

    The enormous development of the South Africanmines,whichsuppliedin 1906, about90%of the world's produce, has thrown into the shade the Brazilian production; but the Bulletin for Feb.

    311

    The enormous differential is because US stocks are very overpriced and European stocks are somewhat overpriced.

    312

    The enormous dramatic development in the symphonic music of Beethoven made the problem of the Mass with orchestral accompaniment almost insoluble.

    313

    The enormous flour-mills of Minneapolis (22 in 1907) are perhaps the most interesting sights of the city.

    314

    The enormous furry pink aardvark quickly picked over the moldy old scotch egg.

    315

    The enormous influx of pilgrims naturally creates a brisk trade in Kerbela and the towns along the route from Persia to that place and beyond to Nejef.

    316

    The enormous labour required for this work seems scarcely to have been appreciated, though it remains to this day one of the most useful books in an ornithologist's library.

    317

    The enormous mass of basaltic rock known as the Deccan Trap is of great importance in the geological structure of the Indian Peninsula.

    318

    The enormous mound of Kuyunjik now separated from that of Nebi-Yunus by the deep and rapid Khausar, marks the site of the palace of Sennacherib and Assur-bani-pal.

    319

    The enormous prices once given for rare varieties of tulip bulbs no longer obtain, though, even now, two and three guineas are asked for special bulbs.

    320

    The enormous profits of the contraband trade with France enabled Ireland to purchase English goods to an extent greater than her whole lawful traffic. The moral effect was disastrous.

    321

    The enormous programme of constitutional reform foreshadowed in the manifesto had to be elaborated in haste by Count Witte, the minister of the interior, under circumstances by no means promising.

    322

    The enormous quantities of pieces admit of good selection and where odd colours prevail in a lining it is dyed.

    323

    The enormous quantities of Roman coins may be accounted for by consideration of the well-known practice of the Romans to make these imperishable monuments subservient towards perpetuating the memory, not only of their conquests, but also of those public works which were the natural result of their successes in remote parts of the world.

    324

    The enormous study was full of things evidently in constant use.

    325

    The enormous sum of i 50o has been paid for a collie, and 000 guineas for a bulldog, both show dogs pure and simple; while L50o is no uncommon price for a fox terrier.

    326

    The enormous temple at Didymi was cleared and all its columns were found to be standing to the height of several metres.

    327

    The enormous water-power of the Falls of St Anthony, yielding about 40,000 h.p., has been the principal factor in making Minneapolis a great manufacturing centre.

    328

    The evidence is quite conclusive; yet the fire has been imputed to the Syrians, and a tale was invented about ballistas which hurled against the House of God enormous stones and vessels full of bitumen.

    329

    The extravagance of Frederick drained the resources of his state, but this was amply atoned for by the rigid economy of Frederick William I., who not only paid off the debts accumulated by his father, but amassed an enormous treasure.

    330

    The fact that coal gas of an illuminating power of from 14 to 16 candles can be made from the ordinary gas coal at a fairly low rate, while every candle power added to the gas increases the cost in an enormous and rapidly growing ratio, has, from the earliest days of FIG.

    331

    The fall of Basileios followed; he was punished with exile and the confiscation of his enormous property.

    332

    The famous Falls of Lodore, at the upper end of the lake, consist of a series of cascades in the small Watendlath Beck, which rushes over an enormous pile of protruding crags from a height of nearly 200 ft.

    333

    The feet are five-toed, and the third and fourth toes of the front pair armed with enormous claws adapted for digging.

    334

    The film was an enormous success that spawned two sequels and propelled Li into instant stardom.

    335

    The finale is another substantial movement, full of surprise harmonic sidesteps and enormous energy.

    336

    The first sources of the enormous wealth he subsequently attained were his introduction of sleeping-cars for railways, and his purchase (1864) of Storey Farm on Oil Creek, where a large profit was secured from the oil-wells.

    337

    The flowers are borne in enormous fleshy spadices, the male and female on distinct plants.

    338

    The formation and gradually increasing thickness of its bark are explained by the continually increasing need of adequate protection to the living cortex, under the strain of the increasing framework which the enormous multiplication of its living protoplasts demands, and the development of which leads to continual rupture of the exterior.

    339

    The fur upon the necks usually runs dark, almost black, and in some cases the fur is black halfway down the length of the skin, in rarer cases three-quarters of the length and, in the most exceptional instances, the whole length, and when this is the case they are known as "Natural Black Foxes" and fetch enormous prices.

    340

    The gains of such a change are enormous.

    341

    The general election at the beginning of 1906 was disastrous to the Unionist party, and the Liberal government secured an enormous majority.

    342

    The great importance of these nominating bodies lies not only in the fact that there are an enormous number of state, county and city offices (including judicial offices) filled by direct popular election, but also in the fact that in the United States a candidate has scarcely any chance of being elected unless he is regularly nominated by his party, that is to say, by the recognised primary or convention.

    343

    The Grotte des Chevres has been regarded as an enormous gas-bubble in the lava.

    344

    The Highlands were to become an enormous sheep pen arranged to satisfy the empire's equally voracious appetite for wool.

    345

    The history of the 19th century is the liquidation of an enormous bankruptcy, and the completion of the circle which confines the Spaniard once more to the soil of the Peninsula.

    346

    The hobby horse The hobby horse was a man wearing an enormous hoop covered with flowing material.

    347

    The huge pillar like legs were needed to support the enormous body weight of the sauropod dinosaurs.

    348

    The improvements effected in Brussels during the 19th century were enormous, and completely transformed the city.

    349

    The increase in efficiency and cost savings on removing the need for hardcopy documentation distribution from a medium-to-large sized organization can be enormous.

    350

    The infantry was not of good quality; but its cavalry was really an enormous force, numbering fully a hundred thousand in all.

    351

    The internal decorations, especially the enormous quantity of wall ornaments, consisting chiefly of scrolls and bas-reliefs, were executed by different sculptors under the personal direction of Malatesta, who, even when engaged in war, sent continual instructions about their work.

    352

    The invasion of Paraguay then took place, and a struggle involving an enormous sacrifice of life and treasure lasted for five years, only coming to a close when the Paraguayan forces were totally defeated and Lopez was killed at the battle of Aquidaban on the 1st of March 1870.

    353

    The iron blast furnace, a crude but very efficient piece of apparatus, is an enormous shaft usually about 80 ft.

    354

    The island has the largest known colony of waved albatrosses, magnificent birds of enormous wing span.

    355

    The lagoon is slowly filling up and becoming cultivable land, but the rate of recovery from the sea has been specially marked since the eruption of Krakatoa, the pumice from which was washed on to it in enormous quantity, so that the lagoon advanced its shores from 20 to 30 yards.

    356

    The largest horns are found in the Galla cattle, in which they attain enormous dimensions.

    357

    The largest, attaining an enormous bulk and a length of 20 ft., is the C. niger, the jacare-assu or large caiman of the Amazons.

    358

    The latter found the effect to be enormous, not only upon the induced magnetization, but in a, still greater degree upon the residual.

    359

    The loss of property was enormous.

    360

    The loss to Spain was enormous, and from this act of the Dominican the commercial decay of Spain dates.

    361

    The losses were enormous on both sides, Johnston himself being amongst the killed.

    362

    The magnitude of the bee industry in the United States may be judged from the fact of a single bee-farmer located in California having harvested from 150,000 lb of honey in one year from 2000 stocks of bees, and, as an instance of the enormous weight of honey obtainable from good hives in that favoured region, the same farmer secured 60,000 lb of comb-honey in one season from his best 300 colonies.

    363

    The mass of literature on the Psalms is so enormous that no full list even of recent commentaries can be here attempted, much less an enumeration of treatises on individual psalms and special critical questions.

    364

    The most important bill vetoed was the Dependent Pension Bill, a measure of extreme profligacy, opening the door, by the vagueness of its terms, to enormous frauds upon the treasury.

    365

    The motion of the outwardscreeping inland ice will naturally be more independent of the configurations of the underlying land in the interior, where its thickness is so enormous, than near the margin where it is thinner.

    366

    The movie itself is a enormous amount of fun that benefits from the company of an absolutely stellar cast.

    367

    The mullahs, who fix the burial fees, derive an enormous revenue from the faithful.

    368

    The Museum's enormous collections are ranked 4th in America in size, and include protists, plants, invertebrates and vertebrates.

    369

    The nails of the fingers, or the hair of the scalp may grow to an enormous length if not trimmed.

    370

    The necropolis of the old Lydian city, a vast series of mounds, some of enormous size, lies on the north side of the Hermus, 4 or 5 m.

    371

    The Newfoundland is simply an enormous spaniel, and shows its origin by the facility with which it takes to water and the readiness with which it mates with spaniels and setters.

    372

    The nucleus of the invading horde was a small pastoral tribe in Mongolia, the chief of which, known subsequently to Europe as Jenghiz Khan, became a mighty conqueror and created a vast empire stretching from China, across northern and central Asia, to the shores of the Baltic and the valley of the Danube - a heterogeneous state containing many nationalities held together by purely administrative ties and by an enormous military force.

    373

    The old count had always kept up an enormous hunting establishment.

    374

    The old sacrificial hymns were probably obscene and certainly nonsensical, and the substitution for them of the psalms, and of lections of the prophets and New Testament, was an enormous gain.

    375

    The old system of locating immigrants in colonies, or colonial nuclei, which involved an enormous outlay of money with but slight benefit to the country, has been superseded by a system of locating the immigrants on the large plantations under formal contracts.

    376

    The one exception was the relatively enormous open diapason which swamped everything in the organ.

    377

    The operculum of the normal zooecium has become the mandible, while the occlusor muscles have become enormous.

    378

    The people see money passing through their hands at an enormous rate only to find its way to enriching the financial elite.

    379

    The performance, directed by Hans Richter, excited extraordinary attention; but the expenses were enormous, and burdened the management with a debt of £7500.

    380

    The placental mammals are a very diverse group with an enormous range of body forms and complex social interactions.

    381

    The practical effects of this distinction have been, and still are, of enormous importance.

    382

    The president's ability to take advantage of the people's suffering proved enormous.

    383

    The principal part of the garden lands in villages round Kandahar is vineyard, and the produce must be enormous.

    384

    The printing of the Istoria delle guerre civili di Francia was, however, completed, and the success and sale of the work were immediate and enormous.

    385

    The proceedings were necessarily of enormous length, and the commissioners did not report until the 13th of February 1890, but the question of the letters was decided just twelve months earlier, Richard Pigott, who shot himself at Madrid, having confessed to the forgeries.

    386

    The proportionately enormous chelae (chelicerae) of the first pair of appendages are not provided with poison glands; their bite is not venomous.

    387

    The quantitative estimate of the amount of this flora has revealed its enormous aggregate amount and therefore its great importance in the economy of oceanic and lacustrine animal life.

    388

    The quantity taken by the country is very large, but when spread over the enormous population the rate of consumption per person is not great.

    389

    The quarry mines on the top of the hill near Tawmaw produce enormous quantities, but the quality is not so good.

    390

    The rapid erosion of the soft limestone bed at one time threatened the destruction of the power, but this has been prevented by an enormous apron and an artificial concrete floor (completed in 1879).

    391

    The reason is the enormous proportion of the retail selling price which is exacted by the government by way of duty.

    392

    The result is, on the one hand, a clearing away of much fantastic phylogeny, on the other, an enormous reduction of the supposed gaps between groups.

    393

    The result was an enormous influx of pilgrims to Rome, which stirred the pope's attention.

    394

    The rise of the Ghazal river in flood time is barely 3 ft., a depth sufficient, however, to place an enormous area of country under water.

    395

    The rivers and lakes yield enormous quantities of fish, and leeches also are plentiful.

    396

    The royal palace, begun in 1600 by the Count de Lemos, from designs by Domenico Fontana, partly burned in 1837, and since repaired and enlarged by Ferdinand II., is an enormous building with a sea frontage of Boo ft.

    397

    The sarcophagi are of immense size, and the burial must have entailed enormous expense.

    398

    The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.

    399

    The site of Samaria is an enormous mound of accumulation, one of the largest in Palestine.

    400

    The small sinuous segmented body is enclosed, except for one small opening, in an enormous sac-like carapace, between the lamellae of which are protruded from the body the ovary and " liver," both large, bifurcate and ramified.

    401

    The sovereign direction of this enormous monarchy belonged to the pope alone, who was assisted in important affairs by the advice and collaboration of the College of Cardinals, who had become the sole electors to the papacy.

    402

    The spread of genes linked to this promoter by ordinary cross-pollination or by horizontal gene transfer will have enormous impacts on health and biodiversity.

    403

    The stars are known to be continually losing enormous quantities of energy by radiating their heat into space.

    404

    The stem of the agave seems enormous in size when one considers that it is the growth of a few weeks.

    405

    The thorough saturation of the narrow space with aqueous vapour, and the presence of drain water in the cutting, were probably their chief preservatives - assisted by the high even temperature always found in the deeper headings of coal mines, and by the enormous compression of the confined air.

    406

    The United States (California) after 1848, and Australia after 1851, were responsible for enormous increases in the total production, which has been subsequently enhanced by discoveries in Canada, South Africa, India, China and other countries.

    407

    The US still has many busy and expanding commuter rail networks around major cities, and enormous amounts of long-distance bulk rail freight.

    408

    The volume of his letters and his writings in books, articles for the press and speeches and official messages, is enormous, and yet this work was done in the midst of the executive labours of a long political career.

    409

    The wars in the first decade of the 19th century were not on the whole unfavourable to the commerce of Leipzig, but in 1813 and 1814, owing to the presence of enormous armies in the neighbourhood, it suffered greatly.

    410

    The way we currently produce our energy is leading to enormous and possibly irreversible environmental damage.

    411

    The white border by the Garden Room has the enormous Crambe cordifolia like huge umbrellas, white potentilla and Philadelphus scenting the air.

    412

    The whole surrounding country is seamed with miles of tunnels in granite, and the hillsides are dotted everywhere with enormous dumps.

    413

    The wings are well developed for flight, and there is a tendency in the group, especially among the males, towards an excessive development of the mandibles or the presence of enormous, horn-like processes on the head or pronotum.

    414

    The World Wide Web will play an enormous role in ending war, on several levels.

    415

    Their faces are remarkable for the long upper lip and the depressed broad nose with enormous alae.

    416

    Their influence is enormous and hardly has a parallel in the history of religions.

    417

    Their salaries should be deducted from the enormous police precepts raised in the council tax.

    418

    Then there is the enormous belt driven blower sticking out the side.

    419

    There are still enormous glaciers about the head of the Brahmaputra, but the glacial epoch of the Chang-t'ang highlands has passed away, though comparatively recently.

    420

    There is also a fungus named Xylaria vaporaria, which sometimes fixes itself on mushroombeds and produces such an enormous quantity of string-like spawn that the entire destruction of the bed results.

    421

    There is lack of unity in plan and grouping, and an enormous waste of material as compared with available room.

    422

    There is no doubt that the leaders of the world's eight largest economies still wield enormous power.

    423

    There is this enormous gulf between them, which is amplified by Haynes's use of distanced camera takes.

    424

    There may seem to be a great abundance of Egyptian monuments, but they have to cover an enormous space of time, and even in the periods which are best represented, gravestones recording the names of private persons with a prayer or two are scarcely material for history.

    425

    There occur also quartz-porphyry (Sierra Morena, Pyrenees, &c), diorite, porphyrite, diabase (well developed in the north of Andalusia, where it plays a great part in the structure of the Sierra Morena), ophite (Pyrenees, Cadiz), serpentine (forming an enormous mass in the Serrania de Ronda), trachyte, liparite, andesite, basalt.

    426

    There was also a sales table with, on display, an abundance of African memorabilia including an enormous wooden giraffe.

    427

    There was always a loud hum audible from the enormous transformer.

    428

    There was great expressivity, enormous power and much grace and elegance.

    429

    Thereupon President Kruger arbitrarily closed the drifts (fords) on the Vaal river, and thus prevented through waggon traffic, causing an enormous block of waggons on the banks of the Vaal.

    430

    These birds were of enormous size, and reminded Zeb of the rocs he had read about in the Arabian Nights.

    431

    These early schools, which consist chiefly of one-year and two-year-old fishes, yield sometimes enormous catches, whilst in other years they escape the drift-nets altogether, passing them, for some hitherto Unexplained reason, at a greater depth than that to which the nets reach, 1 The term "Spanish mackerel" is applied in America to Cybium maculatum.

    432

    These enormous, mouthwatering steaks are complemented perfectly with delicious side dishes like garlic mashed potatoes, creamed spinach, or sauteed mushrooms.

    433

    These illustrations of the enormous variability of discharge serve to explain what is popularly so little understood, namely, the advantage which riparian owners, or other persons Comperei nterested in a given stream, may derive from works cation water.

    434

    These methods have enormous potential for providing modern, caring, locally-based nurse-led abortion services for women.

    435

    These vines are less satisfactory than trees as rubber producers, owing to the readiness with which they are injured and destroyed by careless tapping, and to the difficulty of regulating these methods in the case of vines distributed over enormous areas of forest.

    436

    These were due to an enormous amount of exceedingly fine dust blown to a great height by that terrific explosion, and then universally diffused by the high atmospheric currents.

    437

    They appreciated the enormous effort you put into the photos of the day.

    438

    They are clever cooks, and for their feasts preparations are sometimes made months in advance, and enormous waste results from them.

    439

    They include oysters, crabs of great size, and a small mussel, found in enormous numbers.

    440

    They make good or bad seasons, and control the vast animals who, among ancient Persians and Aryans of India, as among Zulus and Iroquois, are supposed to grant or withhold the rain, and to thunder with their enormous wings in the region of the clouds.

    441

    They released themselves by paying the enormous sum of 240,000 dinars and 16,000,000 dirhems, which constituted nearly their whole fortune, and were then sent to Bagdad, where father and son died three years later.

    442

    They were often of enormous size; that at St Sophia in Constantinople was large enough for the ceremonial of coronation.

    443

    They will hold their arms over their heads until the muscles atrophy, will keep their fists clenched till the nails grow through the palms, will lie on beds of nails, cut and stab themselves, drag, week after week, enormous chains loaded with masses of iron, or hang themselves before a fire near enough to scorch.

    444

    This again reflects the enormous preclinical research effort dedicated to oncology, and the relatively restricted number of marketed anticancer drugs.

    445

    This backwater, where it meets and checks the current of the Arkansas, occasions the precipitation of enormous alluvial deposits, and vast quantities of snags.

    446

    This can give graduates an enormous boost if they wish to set up their own company.

    447

    This continental area has been described as " Gondwana Land," a tract of enormous extent occupying an area, part of which has since given place to a southern ocean, while detached masses persist as portions of more modern continents, which have enabled us to read in their fossil plants and ice-scratched boulders the records of a lost continent in which the Mesozoic vegetation of the northern hemisphere had its birth.

    448

    This enormous capacity for expansion and contraction is astonishing if we believe matter to be continuous, but if we imagine air to be made up of little particles separated by relatively large empty spaces the changes in volume are more easily conceivable.

    449

    This enormous edifice, founded on the cathedral rock, is an extraordinary mixture of castle and convent, palace and fortress.

    450

    This has enormous implications for the infrastructure in this area of continuous permafrost.

    451

    This illustration gives some idea of the enormous increase of yield of such a well, if, by any means, we can get rid of the frictional sand, even from Artificial within the 16 in.

    452

    This means that an enormous number of normal adenovirus must be used for each clinical treatment, to overcome neutralization.

    453

    This palm will grow to a height of 100 ft., and shows enormous fern-like leaves.

    454

    This position, which gave him enormous power, he retained until the revolution of the 9th Thermidor (July 2 7, 1 794).

    455

    This question has given rise to an enormous amount of discussion among learned men, and some of the disputants have not yet laid down their arms; but for impartial outsiders who have carefully studied the evidence there can be little doubt that 1 See Researches into the State of Fisheries in Russia (9 vols.), edited by Minister of Finance (1896, Russian); Kusnetzow's Fischerei and Thiererbeutung in den Gewassern Russlands (1898).

    456

    This solution, we believe, will provide enormous leverage for a more efficient and responsive infrastructure and opportunities for a smaller stockpile.

    457

    This spawn is sometimes so profuse that it is pulled out of the beds in enormous masses and carted away in barrows.

    458

    This speech, which, according to reports, was extremely radical and denied the right of the king to disallow acts of the colonial legislature, made Henry the idol of the common people of Virginia and procured for him an enormous practice.

    459

    This was the case with most of the products of agriculture and with live stock, so Canovas and his finance minister made, by royal decree, an enormous increase in the duties on these classes of imports, and particularly on breadstuffs.

    460

    This work shows enormous dedication to the recreation of the original sound!

    461

    This would, of course, have enormous social ramifications, at every level.

    462

    This, undoubtedly, was the part of his task that Innocent preferred, and it was to this, as well as to his much overrated moral and theological treatises, that he owed his enormous contemporary prestige.

    463

    Tho he idealizes the rural petty bourgeoisie, Tolkien treats them with enormous condescension.

    464

    Those of the redshank, of the golden plover (to a small extent), and enormous numbers of those of the black-headed gull, and in certain places of some of the terns, are, however, sold as lapwings', having a certain similarity of shell to the latter, and a difference of flavour only to be detected by a fine palate.

    465

    Though the geographical extent of Russian territory and influence is enormous, she has always moved along the line of least resistance.

    466

    Though there is no direct evidence of this connexion, enormous numbers of tumuli, probably of Phoenician origin, exist on the Bahrein Is., which also contain tumuli of Babylonian age.

    467

    Though this process is now largely supplemented, and even displaced, by various rivals, at the time it was brought out it was of enormous industrial importance, since it effected a great cheapening in the price of steel, and led to that material being widely substituted for others which were inferior in almost every respect but that of cost.

    468

    Throwing off the blanket of communist uniformity, Russia today is a nation of enormous diversity and tremendous vitality.

    469

    Thus all his strenuous efforts, all his enormous sacrifices, came to nothing.

    470

    Thus it has come to pass that the muscles of the hind limbs are, like their framework, more easily compared with those of reptiles and mammals than are the wings, whilst within the class of birds they show an enormous amount of variation in direct correlation with their manifold requirements.

    471

    Thus the anti-slavery clause of the ordinance of 1784 was not adopted; and it was preceded by unofficial proposals to the same end; yet to it belongs rightly some special honour as blazoning the way for federal control of slavery in the territories, which later proved of such enormous consequence.

    472

    Until 1811 the Calvinistic Methodists had no ministers ordained by themselves; their enormous growth in numbers and the scarcity of ministers to administer the Sacrament - only three in North Wales, two of whom had joined only at the dawn of the century - made the question of ordination a matter of urgency.

    473

    Vases of all kinds, carved in marble or other stones, cast or beaten in metals or fashioned in clay, the latter in enormous number and variety, richly ornamented with coloured schemes, and sometimes bearing moulded decoration.

    474

    We also use enormous slingshots to hurl rocks at our enemies.

    475

    We arrived outside an enormous underwater cavern, the silver ripples reflecting on the stone walls.

    476

    We asked Mr Portillo for a comment but his office told us he was busy cooking an enormous paella.

    477

    We believe that a fund is needed to attract scientists and catch up with the enormous backlog of need.

    478

    We believe that the Black country conurbation is a site of creative tension, with enormous cultural potential.

    479

    We may form some idea of its enormous dimensions from the fact recorded, that when, A.D.

    480

    We need mention only the chief of them - the Collectio Anselmo dedicata, by an unknown author of the end of the 9th century; the Libri duo de synodalibus causis et disciplinis ecclesiasticis, 3 compiled about 906 by Regino, abbot of Pram, and dedicated to Hatto of Mainz, relatively a very original treatise; the enormous compilation surchard.

    481

    We rushed out of the shop in time to see four diesel locomotives hauling an enormous line of wagons to the East.

    482

    We will visit enormous penguin rookeries, land on beaches ruled by Antarctic fur seals and observe southern elephant seals wallowing in mud pools.

    483

    We will visit enormous penguin rookeries, land on beaches ruled by antarctic fur seals and observe southern elephant seals wallowing in mud pools.

    484

    What if tomorrow morning, you walked out of your door and saw an enormous spaceship hovering over your entire city?

    485

    When a river partakes of the nature of a torrent, dwindling to a paltry stream at one season and swelling into an enormous flood at another, it is impossible to construct a system of irrigation canals without very costly engineering works, sluices, dams, waste-weirs, &c., so as to give the engineer entire control of the water.

    486

    When adjacent burial areas belonged to members of the same Christian confraternity, or by gift or purchase fell into the same hands, communications were opened between the respective cemeteries, which thus spread laterally, and gradually acquired that enormous extent which, " even when their fabulous dimensions are reduced to their right measure, form an immense work."' This could only be executed by a large and powerful Christian community unimpeded by legal enactments or police regulations, " a living witness of its immense development corresponding to the importance of the capital."

    487

    When disturbed, they start off with enormous bounds of eight or ten feet in length, which soon diminish to three or four; and in leaping the feet scarcely seem to touch the ground.

    488

    When more than 1.25 billion people become well-off, the demand on everything will be enormous.

    489

    When the World War broke out he secured an enormous share in the war profits which flowed into the coffers of the great industrialists.

    490

    Wherever there is any pretence at irrigation, along the banks of the two great rivers and by the few canals which are still in existence, the yield is enormous, and the shores of the Tigris and Euphrates in the neighbourhood of Bagdad and Hilla seem to be one great palm garden.

    491

    Whilst this was happening the main wall of the dam collapsed revealing an enormous breach through which poured millions of gallons of water.

    492

    Why do text-based games still retain the enormous appeal they have?

    493

    With a capacity for the production of cotton almost boundless, the crop which was so insignificant when the century began had in 1860 reached the enormous extent of 4,824,000 bales.

    494

    With an enormous repertoire of skills, David is one of the world's leading escapologists and circus sideshow performers.

    495

    With such an enormous geographical range the species must of necessity present itself under a considerable number of local phases, differing from one another to a greater or less degree in the matters of size and colouring.

    496

    With the enormous extension of Greek territory a great shifting took place in the old centres of gravity.

    497

    Without resorting to this exaggeration, Mommsen can speak with perfect truth of the " enormous space occupied by the burial vaults of Christian Rome, not surpassed even by the cloacae or sewers of Republican Rome," but the data are too vague to warrant any attempt to define their dimensions.

    498

    Yet notwithstanding this enormous effect in iron, the action of a current upon nickel and cobalt turned out to be almost inappreciable.

    499

    Youâll find the Great Lakes of Africa in the truly enormous Great Rift Valley of East Africa.

    500

    Your architect will spend an enormous amount of time producing reams of drawings; they could be working with you for years.