profuseness
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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 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
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
His profuseness, however, had been mingled with a continuous astonishment, a brutish wonder which was quite inexplicable to Elizabeth.
From House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
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
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