profuseness

Example Sentences

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Minuteness of finish and perfection of detail were lavished with Oriental profuseness.

From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Ballou, Maturin Murray

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

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

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

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 Eliot, George

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