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 Rice, Alfred Ernest

To a Northerner, accustomed to see so much enrichment expended upon the soil to force from it an annual return, this profuseness of unstimulated yield is a surprise.

From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Ballou, Maturin Murray

The profuseness and variety of beautiful ferns and orchidaceous plants will also be sure to attract the attention of the Northern visitor.

From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Ballou, Maturin Murray

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 More, Thomas, Sir, Saint

The culprit had a little log hut on the banks of the Guyandotte River, and was dealing it out with a profuseness entirely unwarranted.

From Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive by Burnett, Alf