That vapour, mists, and humidity come forth from the earth, seems due to the reason that it contains burning heat, mighty currents of air, intense cold, and a great quantity of water.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Disappointed, however, and vexed as she was, and sometimes displeased with his uncertain behaviour to herself, she was very well disposed on the whole to regard his actions with all the candid allowances and generous qualifications, which had been rather more painfully extorted from her, for Willoughby's service, by her mother.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

In combining Scottish and English coats of arms into one scheme of quartering, it is usual if possible to treat the coat of arms as matriculated in Scotland as a grand quartering equivalent in value to any other of the English quarterings.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Purify yourselves and observe the rules of abstinence, and go quickly to Hsiang Shan to return thanks to the saint for this inestimable favour.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

If it is a foreign commodity of which the tax increases in this manner the price, the commodities of the same kind which are made at home may thereby, indeed, gain some advantage in the home market, and a greater quantity of domestic industry may thereby be turned toward preparing them.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

They found on the bank also a great quantity of dead branches in the midst of grass, among which the foot of man had probably never before trod.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

But those which concern the trade to America and the East Indies derange it, perhaps, more than any other; because the trade to those two great continents absorbs a greater quantity of stock than any two other branches of trade.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

I said, I supposed he would not deny that the appearance of the country was much mended; that the people lived better, had more trade, and a greater quantity of money circulating since the union, than before.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

He also made cups of gold, and of [precious] stones, for the entertainment of his guests, and had them adorned in the most artificial manner; and he contrived that all his other furniture of vessels should be of gold, for there was nothing then to be sold or bought for silver; for the king had many ships which lay upon the sea of Tarsus, these he commanded to carry out all sorts of merchandise unto the remotest nations, by the sale of which silver and gold were brought to the king, and a great quantity of ivory, and Ethiopians, and apes; and they finished their voyage, going and returning, in three years' time.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Do you understand? CHAEREPHON: I understand, and will ask him: Tell me, Gorgias, is our friend Callicles right in saying that you undertake to answer any questions which you are asked? GORGIAS: Quite right, Chaerephon: I was saying as much only just now; and I may add, that many years have elapsed since any one has asked me a new one.
— from Gorgias by Plato

Adventurous men, who always go armed, are generally quick to quarrel, and reckless in the use of weapons.
— from Under the Southern Cross Or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou

There were in that temple the golden table, the holy candlestick, and the pouring vessels, and a great quantity of spices; and besides these there were among the treasures two thousand talents of sacred money: yet did Pompey touch nothing of all this, 8 on account of his regard to religion; and in this point also he acted in a manner that was worthy of his virtue.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The illustrations are by native Japanese artists, and give queer pictures of a queer people, who have been seldom visited.
— from An American Girl Abroad by Adeline Trafton

She seated herself upon a stone bench a little off from the avenue, and gazed quietly around with that observing eye which never lost the most minute particular.
— from Sybil Chase; or, The Valley Ranche: A Tale of California Life by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

He was off upon the war-path once more, with fresh horses and renewed energy, on September 8th, and on the 9th, with the co-operation of General Douglas, he scattered a Boer force at Malopo, capturing thirty prisoners and a great quantity of stores.
— from The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle

Thousands of prisoners and a great quantity of cannon were taken.]
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

But if they are quiet and industrious, I give them as good allowances and as good quarters as anybody."
— from A Child's Anti-Slavery Book Containing a Few Words about American Slave Children and Stories of Slave-Life. by Various

In the spring of 1903 I had taken an Indian and his family with me on to this river to shoot duck and geese, and before a fortnight was out we had killed sixty-three geese and a great quantity of duck.
— from The Unexploited West A Compilation of all of the authentic information available at the present time as to the Natural Resources of the Unexploited Regions of Northern Canada by Ernest J. Chambers