profuseness
Example Sentences
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The doctor, unable to refuse, seated himself in the shaving-chair, trembling, half with fear and half with rage, and by this time quite unconscious of the lather which Nello had laid on with such profuseness.
From Romola by George Eliot
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
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 Alf Burnett
My dear friends, girls—modest, rosy, bright-eyed school-girls, such as you are a-thinking of—are scarce as hen's teeth in this great city, and not to be found in profuseness anywhere.
From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
The vegetation is remarkable for its profuseness and almost tropical luxuriance.
From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou
