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  • “Pon my word,” replied the valet, “I do tink dat dere be great occasion for your honour losing a small quantite of blodt; and the young man ave quelque chose of de bonne mine.”

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

  • "And I'll have it with, shall we say, a depravite of potatoes, hand cut and fried till golden in a medley of vegetable oils from the Imperial Valley, accompanied by a quantite de blere, flash-chilled in your own coolers and conveyed to my table in a cylinder of glass."

    I'm A Stranger Here Myself Bryson, Bill 1999

  • Dans quelques endroits on observoit des excavations plus ou moins profondes; les eaux des parties voisines s'y etoient reunies, et formoient des especes de fontaines, dans chacune desquelles nos gens trouverent une tres-petite quantite d'excellente eau ferrugineuse.

    Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King

  • What is considered by one as the ruling factor in the evolution of organisms is regarded by another as a "quantite negligeable" or even as the greatest mistake of the century.

    At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers Eberhard Dennert

  • Germany had a right to be heard in any new settlement of Moroccan conditions; she could not allow herself to be treated as a quantite negligeable, nor be left out of account when a country lying on two of the world's greatest commercial highways was being disposed of.

    William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913

  • One of these was a determination to promote the moral and material prosperity of his people so as to make them a model and thoroughly modern commonwealth; the other, the resolve that as Emperor he would not allow Germany to be overlooked, to be treated as a quantite negligeable, in the discussion or decision of international affairs.

    William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913

  • The Emperor has a high opinion of his country, and, in small things as in great, will not have it treated as a quantite negligeable: consequently a millionaire was not too good for Berlin.

    William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913

  • Azara says, “Je crois que la quantite annuelle des pluies est, dans toutes ces contrees, plus considerable qu’en Espagne.

    Chapter III 1909

  • "La Conscience, c'est la quantite de science innee que nous avons en nous."

    A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • "La conscience, c'est la quantite de science innee que nous avons en nous."

    A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

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