profuseness
Example Sentences
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Its flora is spontaneous and magnificent, repaying the least attention by a development and profuseness of yield that is surprising.
From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou
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
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
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
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
