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Sentences ending with amount

He received thirty thousand dollars for the chapters; the house cost him nearly double that amount. [5]
Now as to the amount? [5]
He doesn't feel that, but he does feel it when you call upon him to contribute a large amount. [5]
It is singular that you should have forgotten a judgment against you; and it is more singular that the plaintiff should have let you forget it so long; particularly as I suppose you always had property enough to satisfy a judgment of that amount. [7]
But when the receipt for his taxes came it was nearly a yard square with due postage of considerable amount. [5]
Sellers took a like amount? [5]
I will say, however, do not trouble yourself if for a few weeks you are not able to send the usual amount. [5]

Short sentences using amount

What does it amount to? [7]
Behold what "travels" amount to! [4]

Sentences containing amount two or more times

What is its reader to do when his journal thrusts upon him every day the amount contained in a fair-sized duodecimo volume, and on Sundays the amount of two of them? [4]
The amount of difference between the several groups--that is the amount of modification which each has undergone--is expressed by such terms as genera, families, orders, and classes. [1]
Tonnage of a boat means the amount of displacement; displacement means the amount of water a vessel can shove in a day. [5]
Deduct from these amounts the amount of the principal of the public debt redeemed and the amount of issues in substitution therefor, and the actual cash operations of the Treasury were: receipts, $884,076,646.57; disbursements, $865,234,087.86; which leaves a cash balance in the Treasury of $18,842,558.71. [7]

More example sentences with the word amount in them

And just, because you or I would not be able to resist an invitation to go yachting with Eldon Parr, a man might be imagined who had that amount of moral courage. [9]
For the last year the amount has been reduced to $11,125,364.13, showing a decrease of about $2,481,000 in the expenditures as compared with the preceding year, and about $3,750,000 as compared with the fiscal year 1860. [7]
The amount of writing against it is no more test of its desuetude, than the number of religious tracts distributed in a given district is a criterion of its piety. [4]
Privileges like these would render the possession of such securities to the amount limited most desirable to every person of small means who might be able to save enough for the purpose. [7]
From these it would readily appear where a given amount of expenditure would do the most good. [7]
My Western course would easily amount to $10,000, but I would rather make 2 or 3 thousand in New England than submit again to so much wearing travel. [5]
There are minds with large ground floors, that can store an infinite amount of knowledge; some librarians, for instance, who know enough of books to help other people, without being able to make much other use of their knowledge, have intellects of this class. [6]
Our author wrote with great facility and rapidity when the inspiration was on him, and produced an astonishing amount of manuscript in a short period; but he often waited and fretted through barren weeks and months for the movement of his fitful genius. [4]
The amount of wine he had drunk to-day would generally have had no more effect upon him than water, and yet he had felt now and then as if he were drunken, and the whole festal hall turned round with him. [10]
Every varying circumstances will require frequent modifications as to the amount needed and the sources of supply. [7]
I am Peter Wilks' brother Harvey, and this is his brother William, which can't hear nor speak--and can't even make signs to amount to much, now't he's only got one hand to work them with. [5]
What usually happens when a poor fellow is put in the pillory for some little offense that didn't amount to anything in the world? [5]
You can charge what you please; I promise the public no amusement, but I do promise a reasonable amount of instruction. [5]
He figures up what all these taxes ought to amount to in a certain district. [5]
She was pretty well paid, to be sure, and in answer to Selene's enquiry, he had stated the amount she earned and mentioned the name of the rich manufacturer to whom she had sold her social standing for gold. [10]
My first purpose was to have the man make a collection of caves and afterwards of echoes; but perceived that the element of absurdity and impracticability was so nearly identical as to amount to a repetition of an idea..... [5]
She was Scotch, was reserved, had a certain amount of shrewdness, would obey instructions, and do her duty carefully. [11]
A Treasury clerk was ordered to go through those papers and report to Mr. Floyd what amount was still due the emaciated Fishers. [5]
And yet Philip was not allowed to be unduly elated by the attention of his fellow-craftsmen, for he soon found that a man's consequence in this circle, as well as with the great public, depended largely upon the amount of the sale of his book. [4]
The motive power was lacking, and no matter how hard I tried, I was only half-hearted, and he realized it instinctively--no amount of feigning could deceive him. [9]
Luigi's whole heart was in it, and even Angelo developed a surprising amount of interest-which was natural, because he was not merely representing Whigism, a matter of no consequence to him; but he was representing something immensely finer and greater--to wit, Reform. [5]
He said it warn't no use talking, heathens don't amount to shucks alongside of pirates to work a camp-meeting with. [5]
Probably, should the war continue for another year, that amount may be increased by not far from $500,000,000. [7]
He could not wait to turn the insult over in his mind, to weigh the exact amount of affront in each question, to take counsel, to sleep over it, and reply to it with diplomatic measure and suavity. [6]
It takes a very moderate amount of erudition to unearth a charlatan like the supposed father of the infinitesimal dosing system. [6]
Mr. Peckham gave very little personal attention to the department of instruction, but was always busy with contracts for flour and potatoes, beef and pork, and other nutritive staples, the amount of which required for such an establishment was enough to frighten a quartermaster. [6]
How comes this vast amount of property to be running about without owners? [7]
He got the usual amount of suspension. [5]
There was an unusual amount of talk. [5]
Inform yourself better, too, of the amount of your inheritance. [10]
At $10 per ton, or $100 per car, which would be a fair price for the distance by rail, the freight bill would amount to $180,000, or $162,000 more by rail than by river. [5]
She had been told the small amount of his inheritance long before, and on that account she would have been obliged to refuse him positively at once, yet the affectionate relations existing between them must not be clouded. [10]
They were roped together with a string, they had mimic alpenstocks and ice-axes, and were climbing a meek and lowly manure-pile with a most blood-curdling amount of care and caution. [5]
What Judge was to unravel them, and assign the exact amount of responsibility? [9]
Mr. Balch went to the table and seized a pen and filled out a check for an amount that shall be nameless. [9]
They levied taxes to the amount of thirty or forty thousand dollars and ordered expenditures to the extent of about a million. [5]
It don't amount to shucks, as we used to say in Missouri. [9]
He don't amount to shucks, as a magician; knows some of the old common tricks, but has never got beyond the rudiments, and never will. [5]
He had expected to find a certain amount of eagerness and subserviency--though veiled; here was a man of different calibre than he looked for in Ripton. [9]
Do you have to deposit the whole amount it calls for? [5]
They will amount to convictions, yet we cannot prove them. [9]
I was able to buy your daughter for you with less than the amount of your savings. [9]
The body was to be preserved in health by keeping each of these qualities in its natural proportion; heat, by the proper temperature; moisture, by the due amount of fluid; and so as to the rest. [3]
Confiscation don't amount to any thing. [5]
Truth compels me to admit that the sum total of all his mortgages did not amount to nine thousand "dollars"; but that was a large sum of money for Coniston in those days, and even now. [9]
Them don't amount to a hill of beans in politics. [9]
From time to time these ancestors had continued to buy desirable corners, which no amount of persuasion had availed to make them relinquish. [9]
Some bags of this they carried away, and also collected a good amount of furs of otters, bears, martens, and minks. [4]
What was all this for and what does it amount to after all? [5]
I persuaded myself this evening that I could fetch him around without any great amount of effort, but I've been getting more and more heavyhearted and doubtful straight along, ever since. [5]
He answered that there were several wires, but that they "didn't amount to nothin'. [11]
Mr. Napier thought there was no danger of that; and Mr. Lincoln said he had not examined to see what amount of scrip would probably be needed. [7]
A few of them have united for this object, and now request your acceptance of the amount which I have to-day deposited to your order at the Concord Bank, through the kindness of our friend, Judge Hoar. [6]
On the second, the total amount may be increasing or diminishing. [3]
The amount of the sums owed by the Eysvogel firm, as well as the names of its creditors in Nuremberg, Augsburg, Ulm, and Regensburg, Venice, Milan, Bruges, and other German and foreign cities, formed the most important portion of his speech. [10]
Ascertain from statistics the small proportion of the region which has yet been brought into cultivation, and also the large and rapidly increasing amount of products, and we shall be overwhelmed with the magnitude of the prospect presented. [7]
She was allowed the same amount of time that is granted to other applicants, and this was shortened in her case by the fact that the question papers had to be read to her. [5]
And this is the reason that we cannot with any certainty tell what any person will do or amount to, for, while we know his talents and abilities, we do not know the resulting whole, which is he himself. [4]
When man selects the offspring of two distinct species for the same object, he sometimes induces a considerable amount of convergence, as far as general appearance is concerned. [1]
The allotting of the measure of wealth would not be difficult to the socialists, because they would insist that every person should be born with an equal amount of property. [4]
I didn't mind the lickings, because they didn't amount to nothing; but I minded the trouble we had to lay in another lot. [5]
Finally, in 1887, the inland revenue office assessed him with income tax, which he very willingly paid, instructing his London publishers, Chatto & Windus, to pay on the full amount he had received from them. [5]
Mr. Henderson was the holder of a large amount of stock in the Northeastern, inherited from his father. [9]
We looked, and the Grinnage clock was so close to twelve the difference didn't amount to nothing. [5]
The amount of the fortune bequeathed had surprised even these wealthy men, for under the prudent management of Archias the property inherited by the modest young sculptor had trebled in value. [10]
As to conducting the draft by townships, I find it would require such a waste of labor already done, and such an additional amount of it, and such a loss of time, as to make it, I fear, inadmissible. [7]
The stamps on the deed, which is now on its way to Humboldt County, from New York, for record, amounted to $3,000, which is said to be the largest amount of stamps ever placed on one document. [5]
He especially befriended the correspondents of the newspapers of other cities, for, as he explained to March, those fellows could give him any amount of advertising simply as literary gossip. [8]
It requires, therefore, the cooperation of a large number of individuals to do the work, and a large amount of money to pay for making its results public through the press. [3]
The Indians robbed the coach of everything it contained, including quite an amount of treasure. [5]
This check for the amount will be honored at any respectable bank in America. [5]
It appeared that the amount of thought which was being lavished upon these measures was appalling. [9]
Plato tells us that, in his time, a law existed binding the Egyptian artists to execute their works with exactly the same amount of beauty or its reverse, as those which had been made more than a thousand years before. [10]
What does all that work of his on the East Side amount to? [8]
It happened, however, that when the blocks were knocked away the big ship refused to budge, and no amount of labor could move her an inch. [5]
I do confess that when I was here seven years ago I stole a hat, but that did not amount to anything. [5]
And I learned that the estate had not only been paying the taxes and its portion of Farrar's salary, but also a considerable amount into Mr. Cooke's pocket the while it was being improved. [9]
The truth is that the country cousins had come to town to attend the Yearly Meeting, and the amount of shopping that preceded that religious event was scarcely exceeded by the preparations for the opera in more worldly circles. [5]
It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises, that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. [5]
The rest was that one night he found himself in debt to the sharper eight thousand pieces of gold!--an amount so prodigious that it simply stupefied him to think of it. [5]
It is estimated that not less than 800 persons were killed by the Indians, and a large amount of property was destroyed. [7]
My fourth of that claim only cost me $50, (which isn't paid yet, though,) and I suppose I could sell it here in town for ten times that amount today, but I shall probably hold onto it till the cows come home. [5]
They can't bile that amount of water away off there at the sea. [5]
Finally, he was taken around the country lecturing, as a reformed drunkard, and he had great houses and did an immense amount of good. [5]
On the first supposition, there is a fixed amount of force always circulating in the universe. [3]
He ate his supper to-night with his usual appetite, which had always been sparing; and he would have eaten the same amount if the Northeastern Railroads had been going into the hands of a receiver the next day. [9]
I considered $100,000 sufficient to go home with decently, though it was but a small amount compared to what I had been expecting to return with. [5]
No amount of suffering can bring down the pride of a Moor or make him shame his dignity with a cry. [5]
He does this strange prospecting with an amount of gravity that can never be estimated or appreciated by a man who has not seen the operation. [5]
If I can't stand that amount of friction, I certainly need reconstruction. [5]
With some, Joan's speech had wrought an effect; others feared she might die under torture; others did not believe that any amount of suffering could make her put her mark to a lying confession. [5]
There was much speculation as to the amount of Henderson's fortune, and many wild estimates of it, but by common consent he was one of the three or four great capitalists. [4]
The amount is so slight that it counts for next to nothing in the equipment. [5]
Even with the small amount of information obtained by the search among his papers and effects, the gossips of the village had constructed several distinct histories for the mysterious stranger. [6]
The whole captures since the army started out will not amount to less than twelve thousand men, and probably fifty pieces of artillery. [7]
Persons who are shut up in that way, confined to their chambers, sometimes to their beds, have a very small amount of vital expenditure, and wear out very little of their living substance. [6]
It has been shown by some noted French experimenters, that the amount of combustion increases up to about the thirtieth year, remains stationary to about forty-five, and then diminishes. [6]
His complete surrender seemed now more certain to the public because the lady had a fortune of two hundred thousand dollars, and that amount of money would be useful to an ambitious man in the growing West. [11]
It does not seem to me a sufficient gain in this situation that we are immensely increasing the amount of steel in the world, or that twenty more people are enabled on account of this to indulge in an unexampled, unintellectual luxury. [4]
We can further see why a great amount of modification in some one character ought not to lead us to separate widely any two organisms. [1]

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