profuseness

Example Sentences

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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

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

When these have wealth their hospitality is too apt to take the place of a spendthrift profuseness, ending in pecuniary embarrassment.

From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Reid, Mayne

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

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

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