profuseness

Example Sentences

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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 Ballou, Maturin Murray

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 Ballou, Maturin Murray

Lady L. You gentlemen have the cunningest ways of playing the fool, and are so industrious in your profuseness.

From The Constant Couple or, A Trip to the Jubilee by Farquhar, George

All these indicate an ease and profuseness of living which little accord with our notions of the word "peasant".

From German Culture Past and Present by Bax, Ernest Belfort

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 Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)