Quintals

Some of these obstacleit will fall away of themselves as soon as the commerce of the country about the Danube grows more considerable; the largest ship which goes from this place to Vienna carries 2000 quintals, which is about the load of n two*m«sted vessel. ❋ Unknown (1812)

Last year, Rajput reaped 48 quintals of soybeans from his farm, a jump from the 20-odd quintals in the past. ❋ Udit Misra (2010)

In this connection, hundreds of quintals of polythene is being seized daily and destroyed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As always, quintals of gratitude go to my cousin and personal historian, Sandra Knight, who resides in Northwest Territories, but whose heart remains in Newfoundland. ❋ JOAN HIATT HARLOW (2009)

The meeting was informed that 7000 quintals of firewood would be stocked by the Forest department while 10,000 LPG cylinders besides rice and other essentials would be made available at all halting stations enroute holy Cave. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Quoth they, “We delivered him and slew the hermit, fearing for our lives; after which we made haste to fly for dread of death; but a trusty man told us that in this hermitage are quintals of gold and silver and stones of price.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Abu Sir to be brought before him, with his elbows pinioned, sent for his Sea-captain and said to him, Take this villain and set him in a sack with two quintals of lime unslacked and tie its mouth over his head. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In 1790, for example, Thomas Quinn, Pat Lundergan, and William Dullahunty were convicted of stealing six quintals of fish. ❋ Unknown (2005)

And private traders are believed to have picked up around 110 lakh quintals. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For all of them together, the figure has not crossed 70 lakh quintals. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Four quintals of gelatine sticks, six loaded claymore mines, eight empty claymore mines, two hand grenades, 100 electrical detonators and wires, 33 live SLR rounds and 19 live .303 rifle rounds were found in drums at three places in the forest. ❋ Abhay N (2006)

The statistics: 10 metres diameter, 30 cubic metres of wood, a ton of nails, 25 quintals of special putty [a quintal = 100 kg], 170 quintals in weight, room for 500 persons inside, and it's the result of six years of work by a single man: 75-year-old Orfeo Bartolucci. ❋ Ray Girvan (2004)

The quantity exported to other parts of the Regency, as well as to foreign countries, where their fine quality is well known, is in round numbers on an average from three to four thousand quintals per annum. ❋ Unknown (2003)

But for the cloues they bargaine at so much the barre, which barre is 3 quintals, 2 roues and 10 rotilos. ❋ Unknown (2003)

They were so well stored of biscuit, that for the space of halfe a yeere, they might allow eche person in the whole Fleete half a quintall euery moneth; whereof the whole summe amounteth vnto an hundred thousand quintals. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Note that there are bars of diuers weights, vt supra, of which they bargaine simply, according to the sort of commoditie, but if they bargaine of the great barre, the same is 7 quintals and 24 rotiloes, which is 958 li. 9 ounces of London weight, and of Aleppo ❋ Unknown (2003)