Sentence examples for destitute of large from inspiring English sources

Roggeveen, who discovered Easter Island in 1722, described the island as "destitute of large trees" and in 1770 González de Ahedo wrote, "Not a single tree is to be found capable of furnishing a plank so much as six inches [15 cm] in width".

Welfare state institutions can take on different forms, and can be organized in different ways, from a minimum of care for the destitute to a large array of social services, such as public education and a public health service.

It further appears that physicians may not leave countries too destitute to educate large numbers of doctors with the financial capital or connections abroad that facilitate emigration – such as Congo-Kinshasa, Niger, and pre-pipeline Chad.

Willis wrote about the pineal gland that "we can scarce believe this to be the seat of the Soul, or its chief Faculties to arise from it; because Animals, which seem to be almost quite destitute of Imagination, Memory, and other superior Powers of the Soul, have this Glandula or Kernel large and fair enough" (Willis 1664, ch. 14, as translated in Willis 1681).

All things are destitute of power, force, or energy.

As George Washington wrote to Congress, the Continental Army was "exceedingly destitute" of the material.

Destitute, Poussin executed a large number of biblical and mythological paintings in the hope of finding buyers.

The orphanages of William Quarrier and Thomas Barnardo were large suppliers of destitute children to the colonies, where they might enjoy "the reward of hard work".

It is nevertheless an area of destitute families, many of them immigrants.

Castellanos donated the land she inherited to the destitute Indians of Chiapas.

And there, soaring alongside, was Martin, the quiet, perpetually destitute product of the American West.