profuseness

Example Sentences

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There it falls in full profuseness, reaching to the hips, and in the case of some mingling with the tails, of their horses.

From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by Tilney, F.C.

Neither owed aught to the adornment of art; but to both had nature been liberal, even to profuseness.

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne

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

In Little Dorrit we have the old profuseness of characters; in the first half nearly one hundred, and in the second half there are practically no new characters at all. 

From The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens by Nicoll, W. Robertson

There is profuseness in the promise, there is a niggardly stinginess in the performance.

From The Village Notary by E?tv?s, J?zsef