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Meanings of prodigious quantity in English

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Usage of prodigious quantity in English
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All the year round he ate at supper a prodigious quantity of salad.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 1...
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Lacqueys, liveries, footmen-theold society was encumbered with a prodigious quantity of these.
The Virginians
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He ate a prodigious quantity, even for a man of such large frame.
Irish Wit and Humor / Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Lea...
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After so many years of effort, the layout held a prodigious quantity of information.
Quest for honour
5
A prodigious quantity of cloth and linen was manufactured in all parts of the Netherlands.
Holland: The History of the Netherlands
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The natural grazing was very good, and hogs found abundant sustenance in the prodigious quantity of mast.
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete
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The Atlantic cable was a theme of inspiration for innumerable sermons and a prodigious quantity of doggerel.
Heroes of the Telegraph
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We entered on a zone where the whole sea was covered with a prodigious quantity of medusas.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
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He has a prodigious quantity of cunning!
Anna St. Ives
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A prodigious quantity of blood spewed forth-
Quicksilver
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The snow was so abundant that since that period there has never been seen such a prodigious quantity in France.
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volum...
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During the period of these inundations, which last two or three months, the Ottomacs swallow a prodigious quantity of earth.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
The Innocents Abroad
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The Elect made themselves sick by devouring the prodigious quantity of good cheer brought to them with a view to purification.
Saint Augustin
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More than half the Roman camp is assuredly destroyed; and they must have lost a prodigious quantity of stores, of all kinds.
For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem
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Mr. Balfour has explained to me that his father's estate was missing a prodigious quantity of money for which he cannot account.
A conspiracy of paper: a novel
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