profuseness
Example Sentences
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Neither owed aught to the adornment of art; but to both had nature been liberal, even to profuseness.
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
Lady L. You gentlemen have the cunningest ways of playing the fool, and are so industrious in your profuseness.
From The Constant Couple or, A Trip to the Jubilee by George Farquhar
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
Its illustrations, which are given with great profuseness, are engraved in the highest style of art, and, in most cases, from designs made expressly for "The Nursery," by the best American artists.
From The Nursery, January 1877, Volume XXI, No. 1 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers by Various
