profuseness
Example Sentences
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To eyes unused to the profuseness of living that then prevailed on the best class of Western steamboats, the display on the dining-tables of the “New Lucy” was very grand indeed.
From The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas by W. A. (William Allen) Rogers
Such scenes were of frequent occurrence among the aborigines, surrounded by a climate which was nearly perfect, and by a profuseness and bounty of vegetation that made the support of life a mere holiday existence.
From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou
The culprit had a little log hut on the banks of the Guyandotte River, and was dealing it out with a profuseness entirely unwarranted.
From Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive by Alf Burnett
Arthur Young, "an agriculturist," as he has been rather contemptuously called, a century or more ago wrote of rural France after a manner, and with a profuseness, which few have since equalled.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
Neither owed aught to the adornment of art; but to both had nature been liberal, even to profuseness.
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
