He drank inordinate quantities of springwine, and slept the sleep of the dead as if he hoped that he would never be resurrected.

Dalgliesh reflected that one of the minor hazards of a murder investigation was the inordinate quantity of caffeine he was expected to consume.

They were throwing an inordinate quantity of mildew about and a shaft of late morning sunlight, swording through the towering windows, was alive with dust motes.

Coughing, for an inordinate quantity of dust had been raised, I struggled to my feet.

His stomach had been calcined by the inordinate quantity of whisky he had drunk, and was a dry and raging furnace.

But Madeline still had kinsfolk, the nearest being a dissolute uncle who outraged his vitals with inordinate quantities of the white man's whisky.

He never used to swear, though, at his men, they said; but somehow he got an inordinate quantity of cruel, unmitigated hard work out of them.

The trouble with the stuff was that I had to take such inordinate quantities in order to feel the slightest effect.

Or else something of great importance had to come first (usually to do with cabbages or brussels sprouts of which he liked to grow inordinate quantities).

Roger bought an inordinate quantity of note-paper he didn't want in the least-out of sheer lightness of heart.