profuseness
Example Sentences
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And she commenced to experience, too, the greatest difficulty in restraining a dewy profuseness that would arise and cloud her sight.
From An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West by Alfred Ernest Rice
In Little Dorrit we have the old profuseness of characters; in the first half nearly one hundred, and in the second half there are practically no new characters at all.
From The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens by W. Robertson Nicoll
Such scenes were of frequent occurrence among the aborigines, surrounded by a climate which was nearly perfect, and by a profuseness and bounty of vegetation that made the support of life a mere holiday existence.
From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou
It may not seem credible, yet parsimony appears in the midst of their profuseness: but then it is very ill placed, for it is in crumbs, bones, and crusts.
From Ideal Commonwealths by Sir Saint Thomas More
Close by it was a morning-glory, which was in remarkable fullness and freshness of bloom, its gay profuseness of purple, pink, and variegated white making it indeed the glory of the morning.
From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Maturin Murray Ballou
