profuseness
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So of the bananas, one of the most delightful of all West India fruits, and which grow everywhere in Cuba with prodigal profuseness.
From History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time by Maturin Murray Ballou
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
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
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
With increased and increasing liabilities, there was more profuseness and greater recklessness.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
