Engraved objects in great number for example, ring-bezels and gems ; and an immense quantity of clay impressions, taken from these.

When it is added, that the quantity of grain gained from the superior powers of the machine is fully equal to a twentieth part of the crop, and that, in some cases, the expense of thrashing and cleaning the grain is considerably less than what was formerly paid for cleaning it alone, the immense saving arising from the invention will at once be seen.

There is a naturally limited quantity of usable spectrum that exists, therefore the market demand is immense, especially as use of mobile technology, which uses the electromagnetic spectrum, expands.

It has a heavy body of timber on the north, with a rich soil of openings and prairie on the south, and has excellent facilities by water for obtaining pine logs from the immense pinery of Wolf river, a great quantity of which is here manufactured into lumber.

Here he was surprised at night by Hugh Dubh and Manus O ' Donnell, and routed with the loss of 900 men and an immense quantity of booty in the Battle of Knockavoe.

It is also described that the number of the Scrolls is unknown not because of their immense quantity, but because the number itself is unknowable, as the Scrolls " do not exist in countable form ".

The quantity of work achieved by Haller in the seventeen years during which he occupied his Göttingen professorship was immense.

Han Yu wrote a large quantity of verse, frequently playful, on an immense variety of subjects, and under his touch the commonplace was often transmuted into wit.

In the following month ( December 1864 ) he dispatched a force to invade Mato Grosso, which seized and sacked the town of Corumbá and took possession of the province and its diamond mines, together with an immense quantity of arms and ammunition, including gun powder enough to last the whole Paraguayan Army at least a year of active war.

I fought as long as a man stood beside me and until numbers overpowered me, losing also an immense quantity of blood from a dozen wounds which I received.

The ruins are situated on the lower terraces of the Aures Mountains, and consist of triumphal arches ( one to Septimius Severus, another to Commodus ), temples, aqueducts, vestiges of an amphitheatre, baths and an immense quantity of masonry belonging to private houses.

Accordingly, the camp commenced building houses, ploughing, planting, and fencing in farms, an immense quantity of labour was performed in a very few days.

It sets out Nimzowitsch's most important ideas, while his second most influential work, Chess Praxis, elaborates upon these ideas, adds a few new ones, and has immense value as a stimulating collection of Nimzowitsch's own games accompanied by his idiosyncratic, hyperbolic commentary which is often as entertaining as instructive.

The next big growth occurred with the advent of World War II, when large numbers of people moved to the Bay Area to work in the many war industries, such as the immense Kaiser Shipyards in nearby Richmond.

In 1754 to 1762 Hume published the History of England, a 6-volume work of immense sweep, which extends, says its subtitle, " From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 ".

At the last moment, when his immense work was drawing to an end, he encountered a crowning mortification: he discovered that the bookseller, fearing the government's displeasure, had struck out from the proof sheets, after they had left Diderot's hands, all passages that he considered too dangerous.

Mahfouz's central work in the 1950s was the Cairo Trilogy, an immense monumental work of 1, 500 pages, which the author completed before the July Revolution.

These are centred throughout the country and work under the umbrella of the mammoth Jamaat-e-Islami with headquarters in Lahore and has immense global influence, reach and regard among more traditional Muslims.

Brahms's First Piano Concerto in D minor ( pub 1861 ) was the result of an immense amount of work on a mass of material originally intended for a symphony.

Two migrant field workers in California during the Great Depression — George Milton ( Burgess Meredith ), an intelligent and quick-witted man, and Lennie Small ( Lon Chaney, Jr .), an ironically-named man of large stature and immense strength but limited mental abilities — come to a ranch near Soledad southeast of Salinas, California to " work up a stake.

" His research was distinguished by a fidelity to the demands of experimental method very rare in the realms which he was exploring and, although often overlooked, the work that Rivers did in this early period is of immense import as it formed the foundation of all that came later.

Having passed his law, Tiberius was lauded as a founding hero not just of a single city or race, but as the founding hero of all the Italians, who had come to endure immense poverty and deprivation, denied of their rightful land because of their military services and having lost work because of the influx of slaves, who were loyal to no man while citizens were loyal to the state.

" However, he donated much of the immense sum of £ 130, 000 the work cost.

By strict economy of time he accomplished an immense amount of work ; he exacted similar application from his dependents, and proved himself a hard husband, a strict father, a severe and cruel master.

In 1498 ( fifteen years after the death of Louis XI of France ), Commines's work was completed ( first published in 1524 in Paris ), and is considered a historical record of immense importance, largely because of its author's cynical and forthright attitude to the events and machinations he had witnessed.

The advent of the digital age has resulted in an immense collection of written work being catalogued exclusively or primarily in digital form.

* The son of the Marquis de Sade had all of de Sade's unpublished manuscripts burned after de Sade's death in 1814 ; this included the immense multi-volume work Les Journées de Florbelle.

The 84 surviving manuscripts of Parzival, both complete and fragmentary, indicate the immense popularity of Wolfram's major work in the following two centuries.

After Caeso was released on bail and escaped to the Etruscans, he was condemned to death in absentia and his father had to pay an immense fine, forcing him to sell most of his lands and retire to a small farm, where he and his family were able to subsist on the work of his hands.

The article on the Convention in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica concludes, " The work of the Convention was immense in all branches of public affairs.

He had an immense influence on the scientific classification of birds, and the work that Sibley initiated has substantially altered our understanding of the evolutionary history of modern birds.

He refused to stand for a seat, in the Liberal interest, in the Lower House of the Prussian diet, but continued to take an active interest in politics, and in 1855 published in two volumes a work, Die Zeichen der Zeit: Briefe, etc., which exercised an immense influence in reviving the Liberal movement which the failure of the revolution had crushed.

The Vienna Circle's influence on 20th century philosophy was immense, and much later work, such as that of Willard Van Orman Quine, was in response to the Circle's thought.

Like the Naval Air Ferry Command at NAS Terminal Island, the Army's ferrying work was an immense undertaking, thanks to Douglas Aircraft's wartime production.

Drake uses his immense charm in his undercover work, and women are often very attracted to him ( Deadline ), but the viewers are left to assume whatever they want about Drake's personal life.

They had watered their stock at immense profit, then had raised the price of coal fifty cents a ton, netting themselves another $20,000,000 in annual profit.

First of all, and this has been calculated by observation, the universe is expanding -- that is, the galaxies are receding from each other at immense speeds.

On his arrival at Ephesus a three months ' truce was concluded with Tissaphernes, the satrap of Lydia and Caria, but negotiations conducted during that time proved fruitless, and on its termination Agesilaus raided Phrygia, where he easily won immense booty from the satrap Pharnabazus ; Tissaphernes could offer no assistance, as he had concentrated his troops in Caria.

The help which he wanted from the West was simply mercenary forces and not the immense hosts which arrived, to his consternation and embarrassment, after the pope preached the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont later that same year.

The death of his children caused ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá immense grief – in particular the death of his son Husayn Effendi came at a difficult time following the death of his mother and uncle.

Rail freight transport has also suffered at the hands of the trucking industry and will continue to do so due to the immense leverage the truck driver's union can bring to bear if they were to feel threatened.

His building activity at Babylon was what turned it into the immense and beautiful city of legend.

The attack killed at least 243 people and caused immense damage to the town.

Capra's films in the 1930s enjoyed immense success at the Academy Awards.

One of the key economic challenges was Iraq's immense foreign debt, estimated at $ 125 billion.

The immense auditory of his sermon ( Redeeming the Time ) at the funeral of Lady Hoghton was long a living tradition all over the county.

I can at times feel strong the beauties, you describe, in themselves, & for themselves – but more frequently all things appear little – all the knowledge, that can be acquired, child's play – the universe itself – what but an immense heap of little things?

Although the oil discoveries of the 1960s have brought it immense petroleum wealth, at the time of its independence it was an extremely poor desert state whose only important physical asset appeared to be its strategic location at the midpoint of Africa's northern rim.

* Honoré Mirabeau, Des Lettres de Cachet et des prisons d ' état ( Hamburg, 1782 ), written in the dungeon at Vincennes into which his father had thrown him by a lettre de cachet, one of the ablest and most eloquent of his works, which had an immense circulation and was translated into English in 1788.

" In chronicles, poems, sermons, even in legal documents, an immense sadness, a note of despair and a fashionable sense of suffering and deliquescence at the approaching end of times, suffuses court poets and chroniclers alike: Huizinga quotes instances in the ballads of Eustache Deschamps, " monotonous and gloomy variations of the same dismal theme ", and in Georges Chastellain's prologue to his Burgundian chronicle, and in the late fifteenth-century poetry of Jean Meschinot.

From the beginning of the 17th century the Dutch cannibalized the Portuguese Empire in the East and, with the immense wealth gained, challenged Spanish hegemony at sea.

Since light cannot escape the super massive black holes that are at the centre of quasars, the escaping energy is actually generated outside the event horizon by gravitational stresses and immense friction on the incoming material.

The collapse unleashed an immense wave of molasses between 8 and 15 ft ( 2. 5 and 4. 5 m ) high, moving at 35 mph ( 56 km / h ), and exerting a pressure of 2 ton / ft² ( 200 kPa ).

Until the early 20th century, the chief ancient buildings at Sparta were the theatre, of which, however, little showed above ground except portions of the retaining walls ; the so-called Tomb of Leonidas, a quadrangular building, perhaps a temple, constructed of immense blocks of stone and containing two chambers ; the foundation of an ancient bridge over the Eurotas ; the ruins of a circular structure ; some remains of late Roman fortifications ; several brick buildings and mosaic pavements.

been going on upon a scale beyond all precedent: immense progress in man's knowledge and in his powers over nature, and at the same time a steady increase of rivalries, distrust, hatred and at last " the most horrible state of war ".

But Liebermann was generally less willing than Chadwick to see the witan's significance as buried under the weight of the royal prerogative: The influence of the king, or at least of kingship, on the constitution of the assembly seems, therefore, to have been immense.

James W. Valentine, while admitting that the classic monkey's task is impossible, finds that there is a worthwhile analogy between written English and the metazoan genome in this other sense: both have " combinatorial, hierarchical structures " that greatly constrain the immense number of combinations at the alphabet level.

Rocks can be metamorphosed simply by being at great depths below the Earth's surface, subjected to high temperatures and the great pressure caused by the immense weight of the rock layers above.