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1 Amrei looked in and saw a quantity of gold and silver coins.
2 When he untied it, McTee looked within and saw a quantity of pearls.
3 I saw a quantity of rose-leaves, and entire roses, scattered over the graves at Ferrara.
4 Thirty years ago I saw a quantity of Peruvian guano that contained more than 18 per cent of nitrogen.
5 A part of the side was split away and through the hole they saw a quantity of gold money!
6 Near Al Agoum we saw a quantity of very ancient stone monuments, situated on slightly elevated ground, above the sand.
7 When he had gone a little way into the bush, he saw a quantity of cut bark lying on the ground.
8 Here we saw a quantity of what I at first thought were white sea-shells, but we found they were the bleached shells of land snails.
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