How To Use Profusion In A Sentence
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As I pressed through the thick underwood, I startled a strange-looking apparition in one of the open spaces beside the gulf, where, as shown by the profusion of plants of _vaccinium_, the blaeberries had greatly abounded in their season.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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(I can't wait to see the profusion of bittorent trackers, new "copyfight" / Free culture efforts, and newer, better p2p technologies that would result from that.
P2pnet news
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Round the body of the trees, planted some at their root, and some upon the different parts of the trunk, crept the withy, the snakeweed, the ivy, and the hop, and intermingled with them the jessamine and the honeysuckle, in the most unbounded profusion.
Imogen A Pastoral Romance
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Instead of taking joy in the profusion of spring blooms, Jane struggles to take a breath.
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Whether clipped into shape or left natural, barberry is a formidable barrier thanks to its dense foliage and profusion of thorns.
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These sources give us valuable insights into her autodidacticism in all its profusion and chaos, as well as her modernity.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The main crops my bees feed themselves on are sycamore, but there is quite a profusion of different flowers in the area, along with clover and heather.
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A profusion of roses, old fashioned and modern, and herbaceous plants scent the air.
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The profusion of words on the quilts counterpoints the simple linear sewing on the sheets.
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Park Seed Co. sells a zinnia called Profusion Double White that is billed as heat-tolerant and resistant to powdery mildew.
New to planting flowers? Start simple, like zinnias
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This is serious business: history has shown that profusions of bloodsuckers will sink great nations.
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In the period since Tony Blair took office in May 1997, anatomies of Britain have been tumbling from the presses in dizzying profusion.
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The conventional view held that cultural impress on the New World was rudimentary, artless, too recent to have mellowed the garish profusion of nature.
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I realize that Flower Markets are a dime a dozen, all over France, but they are woefully rare here in the US – and never with such a profusion of ranunculi, mimosas, and anemones!
Que Faire a Aix-en-Provence? / What to do in Aix-en-Provence? - French Word-A-Day
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The stems are particularly full and smooth, and the heads of the best of them rustle back with a profusion of flaxen flowerage, remarkably agreeable to the touch.
Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy
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For those who are looking for something smaller from the Far North, there is a rich profusion of hand-woven articles and intricately carved boxes and keepsakes.
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Though we had been led to expect that the latter dish would be a profusion of different ingredients and flavours, John simply could not pick them out.
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Nothing survives of the original garden except the profusion of attractive plant life that engulfs Gordon Town.
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Apparently it's a book of ‘extraordinary power’ which Dr. Williams hopes will spread ‘in epidemic profusion through religious and irreligious alike’.
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As we walked on, beautiful Indian sunbirds, their iridescent green flanks flashing brightly in the sunlight, flew past in a profusion of colours.
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From a profusion of wild flowers I especially remark the moccasin-flower or stemless lady's-slipper.
Memories and Anecdotes
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The profusion reigning everywhere gave birth to luxury and pride.
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All about us billowed a profusion of wild beauty; and though for a long time there was nothing alive in sight except a flock of bright pink sheep, my stage-managing fancy called up knights of the round table, "pricking" o'er the downs on their panoplied steeds to the rescue of fair, distressed damsels.
Set in Silver
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Sadly, the profusion of animated logos seems unlikely to abate any time soon.
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It was everything that England wasn't: no censorious social critics, none of that upper-class British inhibition, a concept of time that made this habitual maunderer seem punctual and, best of all, a climate that allowed one to grow plants and animals in lush profusion.
Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico
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Inside, between layers of bubble wrap and a profusion of styrofoam peanuts, was a small object wrapped in terry cloth.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: MYRA THE WRITER
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Turkish blue and emerald green, and every jewel of every land, lie amassed in gorgeous profusion in the adjoining cases, and seemed to realize the fabled treasures of the preadamite Sultans.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829
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A profusion of mosses, liverworts, lichens and ferns cover the woodland floor and festoon tree trunks and branches.
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A stooping, dispirited Adam and a wistful Eve walk slowly through a lush garden with gravid fruit trees and a profusion of animals, as a flaming red cherub, his sword raised, glowers against a possible return.
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These trees yield a profusion of thick red gum (not unlike the ‘sanguis draconis’) which is found serviceable in medicine, particularly in dysenteric complaints, where it has sometimes succeeded, when all other preparations have failed.
The Expedition to Botany Bay
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Following the work of Rawls, however, there has been a profusion of important contributions to liberal political philosophy.
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She repeated these words to her husband and they waited till the appointed time, when the King bade his Marids bring out to them a great litter of red gold, set with pearls and jewels and covered with a canopy of green silk, purfled in a profusion of colours and embroidered with precious stones, dazzling with its goodliness the eyes of every beholder.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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We have just taken chocolate, and, amidst a profusion of bows and civilities from the landlord, are preparing to set off for Mexico.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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'Brecknel and Turner's' flamed and swealed in profusion on the table; while every now and then an expiring lamp on the sideboards or brackets proclaimed the unwonted splendour of the scene, and added a flavour to the repast not contemplated by the cook.
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
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The pomps of the religion, the pageantries of the court, and the munificence of the nobility, were never before characterised by so much grandeur and profusion.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
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And then there was a blinding flash of brightness before his eyes, like fireworks exploding in uncanny profusion, blue, yellow, green, red.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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No visible wounds blemished the surface of his skin; except for a profusion of scars, his yellow, slightly brown skin was flawless.
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A profusion of wild flowers grew by the wayside -- the crimson poppies standing out.
THE GOLDEN LION
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The first wore a white silk, called a polonaise, forming a flowing robe, open to the waist; the pink sash was six inches wide, and filled with spangles; the shoes and stockings were also spangled, and, above all, arose a towering head-dress, filled with a profusion of pearls and jewels; the veil was spangled, and edged with silver lace.
My Lady of Doubt
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Within spongy layers of sea ice, microscopic algae bloom in profusion as sunlight floods in from above.
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Archaeologists also found a profusion of cowries and roughly 800 large bronze relics.
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To acquire the friendship of their emirs, the two factions vied with each other in baseness and profusion: the dexterity of Cantacuzene obtained the preference: but the succor and victory were dearly purchased by the marriage of his daughter with an infidel, the captivity of many thousand Christians, and the passage of the Ottomans into Europe, the last and fatal stroke in the fall of the Roman empire.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The gardens have small topiarian trees, rose arbours, palm and lemon trees and a profusion of colourful flowers.
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A sterculia, the stem of which had served as one of the props of our mess tent, and to which we had nailed a sheet of copper, with an inscription, was considerably grown, and the gum had oozed out in such profusion where the nails had pierced the bark that it had forced one corner of the copper off.
The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888
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There was a profusion of roses in blow and there was a wildness about it that I thought was very delightful.
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Its impact is enhanced by incisive writing and compelling evidence in profusion.
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The Dart is a delightful river with a profusion of wild flowers along its banks.
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My neighbour has some elderflowers growing in profusion in the back garden.
Elderflower Cupcakes
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The central tower of the cathedral, that fine example of decorated work, covered with its profusion of ball-flower ornament, was built by, or at any rate during the episcopate of, Giles de Braose (1200-1215), an ardent opponent of King John.
Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
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Lord, but he was handsome in his profusion of blues—the dark blue coat of superfine, breeches of light blue silk, and his beaver hat dyed blue.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
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Your profusion makes me saving; and if you lament over him much longer,(Sentence dictionary) my heart will be as light as a feather.
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A latticed window of carved wood was set in one wall; there was a profusion of squabby pluffy cushions and fat carpets everywhere, and Lalun's silver
Indian Tales
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Incidentally, the village's name, Tupátaro, means "place of reeds or bulrushes", plants that still thrive in profusion today on the shores of nearby Lake Patzcuaro and are widely used in making modern handicrafts.
Did you know? The Sistine Chapel of Mexico
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It is also propagated by layering, divisions and by seed which it sets in profusion.
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Spectacular real furs and overworked multi-tone coiffures survive in profusion.
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The food was served in the house and the wake participants then adjourned ‘to a very large barn, in which spirituous liquors of every kind, and tobacco in profusion, with pipes, were distributed.’
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We see the packed profusion of exotic narratives give way to the barren emptiness of unpeopled landscapes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not so very far from here the smaller, traditional, wild daffodils, the kind that inspired Wordsworth and Housman, grow in profusion in woods and by roadsides.
On the Verge
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He stared unbelievingly through the windshield at the rocks bouncing madly on the hood and the growing profusion of small dents on the surface of the metal.
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But the latter occur in profusion, too: pirootin ': Messing around; from "pirouetting." tickler: A flat pocket flask. favorance: Resemblance. gumshot: Slingshot. throddy: Well rounded; plump; chuffy. in the room of: In place of.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3
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The house was overflowing with a profusion of strange ornaments.
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[T] he insults, the blows, the murders which flow in such awful profusion from the intemperance of husbands, fathers, sons, brothers, fall with heaviest, most crushing force upon woman.
'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S.
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A freak straight-line windstorm caused a massive blowdown of trees in the area in 1999, and the profusion of fallen timber raised fears of a catastrophic firestorm.
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Whitman loved adhesiveness so because it is a friendly profusion.
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His hair, mingled black and blond, fell in Italianate profusion, knotted ringlets to his shoulders.
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She made her way past the copper beech with its old swing, down the gravelled path amidst a profusion of flowerbeds.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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She there appears surrounded by the luxuriance of vegetable life: she pours forth her bounty with a profusion which the partizans of utility would call prodigality, and covers the earth with a splendour of beauty, which serves no other purpose than to minister to the delight of human existence.
Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.
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A piece of scarlet embroidered cloth, called the snood, confined her hair, which fell over it in a profusion of rich dark curls.
Waverley
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In the centre of the sward was a small artificial lake, long since dried up, and adorned then with a profusion of fountains, that seemed to scatter coolness around the glowing air.
The Last of the Barons — Volume 04
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Part way along there was an astonishing profusion of pinkish-white twinflowers alongside the trail.
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The warden and her volunteers had banished from the graveyard the regimental stripes of the lawn mower and the bleach lines of weed killers, encouraging instead a profusion of what nature writer Richard Mabey calls "the wild flowers of the English pastoral," such as primrose, lady's slipper and cowslip.
Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling
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In the courtyard behind, dining tables are spaced among a profusion of palm trees, mariposa lilies and rare orchids.
Times, Sunday Times
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The guard said, in profusion of the class-struggle snetiment.
Global Voices in English » China: A turmoil triggered by T-shirt
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Following the work of Rawls, however, there has been a profusion of important contributions to liberal political philosophy.
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Those who demand crystal water on every dive best stay at home, but on the positive side, it is this occasional green soup that draws in the mantas and the other vast profusion of life.
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Ivy climbed over the stones and other plants - toadflax, herb robert, wild strawberries, primroses - grew in a splendid profusion.
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An extensive accumulation of axons connecting various thalamic nuclei to practically all cortical areas is seen in fan-like array and this, in three dimensions, reflects the profusion of the thalamic radiations.
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Entities are being multiplied with incredible profusion.
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Where Dedham in Essex now has cars mounting pavements and each other in profusion, 1958 saw just one Fordson van in the street, probably delivering scrag end to the vicar's wife.
Fifty Not Out
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These poles she carried high into her tree and with them constructed a flooring across two stout branches binding the poles together and also to the branches with fibers from the tough arboraceous grasses that grew in profusion near the stream.
Tarzan the Terrible
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The unmanageable profusion of tags for people, places, and kinships, distinguishes scientific expertise from other modes of knowledge and authority.
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Jazz piano gets an overhaul in the studio with a profusion of electronic sounds.
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A profusion of mosses, liverworts, lichens and ferns cover the woodland floor and festoon tree trunks and branches.
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They calked the seams with the long moss which hung in profusion from the neighboring trees; the pines supplied them with pitch; the Indians made for them a kind of cordage; and for sails they sewed together their shirts and bedding.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
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Those who want to get up close with a shark or a profusion of large reef fish can prearrange to suit up and dive into the tanks themselves.
Finding Nemo
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Finished in red and white livery with a profusion of chrome plating, the Dodge was imported to Britain from an American collection before being subjected to a three-year restoration.
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I had forgotten about his magical place where the sun shines every day, the grass is still green, where rhododendrons, impatiens, and geraniums blossom in gleeful profusion.
Renewed
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The distorted features, the profusion of long, red hair, curling over a scared face, and the stalworth figure, shed some light upon the identity of the deceased.
An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
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They wore little robes of silver or gold lama, plumes of white feathers, and a profusion of fine diamonds, and pearls, in bandeaux, brooches, and necklaces, white gauze wings, and white satin shoes, embroidered in gold.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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The vegetation had again changed, and only the vegetable ivory tree remained, with a great profusion of wonderful orchids, among which I learned to recognize the rare Nuttonia Vexillaria and the glorious pink and scarlet blossoms of Cattleya and odontoglossum.
The Lost World
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Each springtime since, motorists and passers-by have enjoyed the profusion of colour when the trees bloom.
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The face of the hill on the south side of the entrance possesses some good soil; and at the time of our visit* was covered with a profusion of herbage, and studded with groups of banksia, which the colonists call the honeysuckle; the wood of which is useful in ship-building on account of the crooked growth of its stem.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
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The hand of Providence seems to be everywhere raising up for the human family in boundless profusion the corn wherewith to make the bread we eat, and the cotton wherewith to make the clothes we wear.
The Cotton of Various Climes
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There he began writing polemical articles “in profusion,” the biographer Richard Wightman Fox reports, in part to support his mother, who lived with him, and a spendthrift older brother.
A Man for All Reasons
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The Indians sometimes confer "brevets" on distinguished individuals as marks of favor, though they do not, or have not as yet, scattered them in like profusion, as in the army, so that the whole thing has become a farce.
Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870
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It was an undersea fairyland, with profusions of rainbow-laden fish so thick they blocked out the sun.
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Before leaving to collect Dai she had rented an apartment and prepared a room with white furniture and a profusion of toys.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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The small area of tropical rainforests has such a profusion of endemic species that most of them were placed on the World Heritage list in the 1980s.
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Among the profusion of flowers you can find scabious, the bedstraws, vetches, ragwort,
Lessons on Soil
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Just here I rise to remark: For effective purposes one must not be unduly sensitive or overmodest in writing autobiography -- for, being the events and memoirs of his life, written by himself, the ever-present pronoun "I" dances in such lively attendance and in such profusion on the pages that whatever pride he may have in the events they chronicle is somewhat abashed at its repetition.
Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century
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Here, the frost-free climate has to a profusion of sub-tropical plants and migratory birds.
Times, Sunday Times
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a profusion of thin circles, called sambo, made of the giraffe's tail-hairs bound round by the thinnest iron or copper wire; whilst the men at home wear loin-cloths, but in the field, or whilst travelling, simply hang a goat-skin over their shoulders, exposing at least three-fourths of their body in a rather indecorous manner.
The Discovery of the Source of the Nile
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One of their noticeable features is the profusion of hollowed-out window decorations.
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Whether clipped into shape or left natural, barberry is a formidable barrier thanks to its dense foliage and profusion of thorns.
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Cornflowers grow in profusion in the fields.
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Page 493 passion flower and the Turk's-cap lily, and on the mountain sides the poplar or tulip-tree, the hickory, ash, black and white walnut, the holly, the chincapin, the alder, and the chestnut, each in profusion.
The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
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The initiative aims to inspire more British people to take a short break in England and enjoy the profusion of high quality food and drink available.
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The stage turns round and there is a profusion of pink.
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Finger-rings and ear-studs, stone necklaces and ornamental chokers, brightly hued bracelets and innovatively shaped pendants are there in rich profusion.
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The work I am talking about is a surface dressing instantly recognisable by the light grey coloured gravel and the profusion of loose stone chippings left on the surface.
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On the whole, the collection was quite wearable with a profusion of cuts and colours, but the designer still has some miles to go before the buyers start placing their orders.
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With its profusion of midwives and naturalistic post-natal care, it is one of the few representations we have in western art that touches on the actual process of childbirth.
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A profusion of white fibers issuing from the ventral aspect of the dentate nucleus converge rostrally to form the main part of the superior cerebellar peduncle.
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From a profusion of wild flowers I especially remark the moccasin-flower or stemless lady's-slipper.
Memories and Anecdotes
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Both of his eyes were coated with a thin milky film, not unlike cataracts, and yet in the center, where the pupils would be certainly invisible, were twin red spots, from which blossomed a profusion of angered capillaries.
Archive 2004-09-01
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I was remarking on the recent profusion of books and articles on the matter.
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In the evening a walk was proposed; the path they took led to a rustic arbour, enclosed by bold rocky scenery, whose entrance was almost impeded by the profusion of woodbine which carelessly wantoned around it.
The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
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Happy ding, resound through Xue Ye , the day of profusion, belong to us.
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Seventy miles south of Neverness there is an island famous for the profusion and fecundity of its bird life.
THE BROKEN GOD
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The Wolf in the green growl, Spit it of poultry feast The colour profusion color primaries: And I also in empty wolves from consumption.
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There is a profusion of swagging, pillars, columns, chandeliers, candelabras, clocks.
Times, Sunday Times
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When I visited Windy Hall last week the gardens were looking wonderful, packed full of unusual and interesting trees and shrubs, underplanted with a profusion of herbaceous plants.
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Dr. Leyden, who exhausted on this subject, as upon most others, a profusion of learning, found the first idea of the elfin people in the Northern opinions concerning the duergar, or dwarfs.
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
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Pines, birches and juniper grow in luxuriant profusion on a valley floor lush in bilberry, cowberry and heather.
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While Stand offers a number of additional abilities to Safari, it is the fact that I can use Stand to force Safari to open all links in new tabs instead of new windows that allows me to use Safari without going bonkers from the profusion of windows that would occur otherwise.
My Favorite Things: Mac Attack | Living the Liminal
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Yet despite their profusion and evident popularity these figures have received little scholarly attention.
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Cape Town is a working port, but the waterfront area is one of the city's major attractions - evidenced by the profusion of shops, bars and restaurants there.
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In time, though, the emptiness should become rich profusion: Lobsters and octopodes will move into shadowy nooks, cleaning shrimp will set up work stations where sailors once did, extending an invitation of sorts to hungry garden eels and the eagle rays that eat the eels.
See-Worthy
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A ride over the hills brought us to a wood of oaks, with their branches fringed with the long grey Spanish moss, and a profusion of epiphytes clinging to their bark, some splendidly in flower, showing the fantastic shapes and brilliant colours one sees in English orchid-houses.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
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A profusion of mosses, liverworts, lichens and ferns cover the woodland floor and festoon tree trunks and branches.
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Despite the recent agricultural incursions, buriti palm groves still grew in profusion in some of the flat areas flanking the rivers.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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Caudwell throws up his hands in despair at the extravagant profusion of theories.
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the profusion of detail
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A bright & smiling ‘Profusion Orange’ zinnia (zinnia in both languages!) from the Bournemouth area in Dorset (UK)
Baba cool - French Word-A-Day
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Many experienced speakers mar their conversations as well as their orations with a profusion of ums and ers which distract attention.
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A profusion of lamps and sconces relieved the gloom, bathing in pink glow sofas, settees, armchairs, side tables, étagères, escritoires, bibelots, and curios the pair had collected.
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His preferences ran to luxe and volupte, but not calme; his designs teem with a mercantile profusion.
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Middlemas was excited by the simple kindness of his master, and poured forth his thanks with the greater profusion, that he was free from the terror of the emblematical collar and chain, which a moment before seemed to glisten in the hand of his guardian, and gape to enclose his neck.
The Surgeon's Daughter
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Her mother, a dingy old dowager, with bad teeth, dowdy gowns, a profusion of artificial flowers, and a strong addiction to tea and knitting, perfectly understood the duties of duennaship, and did propriety by her daughter's side at dinner-table and promenade.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
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These particles should appear in profusion only at the very high energies at which the unification takes place.
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Other stones, such as silex, for making glass, etc., are found in profusion in various parts of the country, but we have no space to enter into a detailed account of them at present.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882
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Again, this profusion of literary talent, and eloquency and vehemence and skill in moral teaching, is of itself, as human nature now exists,
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
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Early summer offers a profusion of wild flowers; the pinks, blues and whites of campions, bluebells and stitchworts are matched by the yellow expanses of meadow buttercups and dandelions.
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This part of Teesdale is famous for botanical rarities like the shrubby cinquefoil bushes, covered with egg-yolk-yellow blooms, that cling to rocky islands in the river, but the profusion of flowers maintained by skilled management of livestock in meadows and pastures has the greatest impact on most visitors.
Country diary: Forest-in-Teesdale
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The Corsican Vendetta has been taken as the basis of more than one romantic story, but, handled by M. M.rimée, it has acquired new and fascinating interest; and he has enriched his little romance with a profusion of those small traits and artistical touches which exhibit the character and peculiarities of a people better than folios of dry description.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
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Soon after noon we were in the _Wadi Nemela_, through which we travelled for nearly two hours, -- a scene of broken rocks on each side, and the intermediate space with a profusion of oleander, ret'm and 'arar, all in flower, some of the latter having trunks of ten feet in circumference.
Byeways in Palestine
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Triffid-like, they rear 6ft-7ft ft up, in a profusion of razor-sharp, spiky leaves that could take out an eye.
Times, Sunday Times
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After days of beech forest, the sudden profusion of mountain holly, Mt Cook lily, tree fuchsia, and dracophyllum, is striking.
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But the overwhelming impression, reinforced by the river's constant laughing and quarrelling beside you, is of nature's profusion, of its own abundance.
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Around them are landscape paintings and decorations with a profusion of colours.
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Their studies resulted in a profusion of new families, genera, and species.
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I presently reached a glade in a thicket, about eight yards across, that had a scent of lime and orange, where the just-sufficient twilight enabled me to see some old bones, three skulls, and the edge of a tam-tam peeping from a tuft of wild corn with corn-flowers, and here and there some golden champac, and all about a profusion of musk-roses.
The Purple Cloud
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Daffodils, scillas, snowdrops, hyacinths, and tiny tulips were all growing there in September in the most improbable profusion.
CHARMED LIFE
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Around the pond grows a profusion of luxuriant trees.
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They blossom in profusion by the creek near here a week or so before Mothers 'Day.
Paradis - French Word-A-Day
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The gentry, whose family pride would vie with these _nouveaux riches_, exhausted themselves in rival profusion; all crowded to "upstart London," deserting their country mansions, which were now left to the care of "a poor alms-woman, or a bed-rid beadsman.
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
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As for Edith, she rambled at will among the bushes of the nearest ravine, under the faithful guardianship of Chimo, and hurried back to the camp almost every hour, laden with cloudberries, cranberries, blaeberries, and crowberries, which grew in profusion everywhere.
Ungava
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But in every part gold was lavished with the utmost profusion; within and without, the floor, the walls, the ceiling, in short, the whole house is described as overlaid with gold.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
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It will pass to the subsequent _Figures of Earth_ and, after showing how the greater gravity of this volume is accompanied by a greater profusion of poetry _per se_ it will unravel the scheme of Cabell's fifteen essays in what might be called contrapuntal prose.
Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes
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The area was called Bloodroot Valley because of the profusion of bloodroot flowers that blanketed the valley in the early spring.
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The profusion of the greenery allows feeling comfortable even during July heat.
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Barely three months earlier, where now there was such a profusion of colour, there had been manicured ski slopes.
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Why do people yearn so desperately to believe that there is some kind of incredible profusion of words for such things among hunter-gatherer peoples, when they have never been shown a single scintilla of quantitative evidence?
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On the other hand, the televised games are damaged by the profusion of commercial plugs, logos and the like.
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This seems likely, to judge from the profusion and confusion of qualifications and subordinate clauses.
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Below the scree - girt heights, pines, larches, birches and juniper grow in luxuriant profusion on a valley floor lush in green bracken, bilberry, cowberry and heather.
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Beautifully constructed two years ago by the Dutch, it winds up from Kobo where it's sweaty-hot, to a pass where giant lobelia grow in profusion and an icy wind sweeps through the thin clothing of the shivering passengers on the truck.
Time travellers
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The exquisite feminine beauty of her countenance, now shaded only by a profusion of sunny tresses; the sylph-like form, disencumbered of her heavy riding-skirt and mantled in azure silk; the grace of her manner and of her smile, cleared, with a celerity which surprised the Master himself, all the gloomy and unfavourable thoughts which had for some time overclouded his fancy.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Cappella del Presepio (Chapel of the Manger) in S. Maria Maggiore, a powerful domical building over a Greek cross, a marvellously well-balanced structure, notwithstanding the profusion of detail and overloading of rich ornamentation, which in no way interferes with the main architecural scheme. lt is crowned by a dome in the early style of S. Mario at Montepulciano.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Despite the profusion of individual skills the composite performs considerably more poorly than the sum of its parts.
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The bush in this area grows in luxuriant profusion, even on the high rocks off the coast.
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Registrarships, canonries and livings fell upon them in rich profusion, and the great prize of all, the registrarship of the Prerogative Court of the archbishop of Canterbury, fell to the luckiest of the lot.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
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It bears a profusion of upright, bottlebrush-like flowers that are deep maroon.
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Bright red salvias, phlox, anthurium and balsam flower in profusion in neat rows, and no wonder Thangam won the first prize for her garden.
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The fruits peculiar to the torrid zone all grow in profusion and among them the native is fondest of the juicy mango, the guava, the aguacate or alligator pear, the anon or custard apple, the guanabana or soursop, the mamon or sweetsop, the mamey or marmalade fruit, the nispero or sapodilla and the tamarind.
Santo Domingo A Country with a Future
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Hotels, villas and restaurants ready to accommodate holidaymakers have sprouted in profusion on the mountainside.
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The Wolf in the green growl, Spit it of poultry feast The colour profusion color primaries: And I also in empty wolves from consumption.
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Bright red salvias, phlox, anthurium and balsam flower in profusion in neat rows, and no wonder Thangam won the first prize for her garden.
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Rainy weather would bring out these beautiful plants in profusion under the firs, birches and aspens in our park, especially in its older part, east of the carriage road that divided the park in two.
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The house was overflowing with a profusion of strange ornaments.
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One of their noticeable features is the profusion of hollowed-out window decorations.
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The exquisite feminine beauty of her countenance, now shaded only by a profusion of sunny tresses; the sylph-like form, disencumbered of her heavy riding-skirt and mantled in azure silk; the grace of her manner and of her smile, cleared, with a celerity which surprised the Master himself, all the gloomy and unfavourable thoughts which had for some time overclouded his fancy.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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On the sidewalks, tables had been laid, often miles and miles long, at the public expense; these were to be covered with every kind of eatables, exquisitely cooked, in the greatest profusion, and free to everyone for twelve hours before the arrival of the illustrious guests and also for twelve hours after their departure.
All Around the Moon
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There were raspberry bushes, too, and a profusion of that tall yellow flower we call Aaron's golden rod, a _solidago_, and the white love-everlasting, the same that the chaplets are made of by the
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
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Roses were growing in profusion against the old wall.
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The west front is indeed its chief beauty of exterior attraction; and it was once rendered doubly interesting by a profusion of alto-rilievo statues, which _disappeared_ during the commotions of the revolution.
A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One
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Nature's abundance and metamorphic energy stimulates a similar profusion in the poet.
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Goldenrod in such great profusion that it seemed the very sunshine of the skies was imprisoned in flower form, stag-horn sumac with its grape-like clusters of red adding brilliancy to the landscape -- everywhere was manifest the dawn of autumnal glory, the splendor that foreruns decay, the beauty that is but the first step in nature's transition from blossom and harvest to mystery and sleep.
Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'
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Above the sink, ivy had burrowed its way through the walls and was now spreading in profusion towards the ceiling.
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A profusion of beads was worn, the heaviness of the glass probably impressing upon the wearer the weight of symbolism contained in the beads.
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Those ominous vines grew in profusion, twisting in dense layers over the lean-to, as if defensively, and the entire platform was surrounded by beasties—iguanas, frogs, snakes, deer mice, and coatimundi made up a creeping moat.
Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
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Only that one word, with a sorrowful shake of the graceful head, covered with feathery ringlets in the dainty fashion of that day, so becoming in youth, so inappropriate to advancing years, when the rich profusion of curls came straight from Chedreux, or some of his imitators, and baldness was hidden by the spoils of the dead.
London Pride Or When the World Was Younger
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The screen was innovatory in its use of classical architectural forms, their realization in black marble and white alabaster, and in the profusion of Italianate figure sculpture and reliefs.
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A profusion of lamps and candles relieved the gloom, bathing in a pink glow sofas, settees, armchairs, side tables, escritoires, and curios the pair had collected.
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The arch over the tomb is crocketed, and is enriched with a profusion of ball-flower ornament in the moulding.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire
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He was not doing anything that he called wrong, and full purposing to do everything that was right; exalting Lady Charlotte in his imagination alike for the favours she granted, and those which she withheld; and taking credit to himself for the homage that he rendered to the excellencies of Isabella, he banished from his mind all thoughts of the future, except such as referred to the excellent conduct which he was then to withhold, and gave himself wholly to the display of that magnificent hospitality and festive profusion, which could only have been well placed in the days of unimpaired fortunes and an unreproving conscience.
Isabella. A Novel
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Moab abounded with flocks, particularly with sheep; * it abounded also with oil; and Balak supposed that the divine favor might be obtained by sacrifices of this kind -- by a profusion of them -- _thousands of ram, and ten thousands of rivers of oil_.
Sermons on Various Important Subjects
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The boom in airliner orders and new generation advanced aircraft, flight and control avionics, navigation, power distribution, engines and air traffic control systems as well as profusion of high speed rail facing similar fail-safe, redundancy, communications and safety requirements, not to mention rising global demand for efficient power generating equipment, are helping push electronics content to new highs.
Smartphones, Tablets Put A Bid Under Intel, T.I., Linear Tech, Analog Devices
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In every month the tourist will find some aesthetic pleasure peculiar to the season, such as the plum blossoms or the cherry flowers, growing wantonly in beautiful profusion.
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In this way Rothenberg moves from the outward. the iconic, the visual, the monolingual to filling the molds, the rejected forms, the questionable objects with an unexaggerated, denotative profusion taken carelessly from the daily.
CHOOSE, SELECTED POEMS by MICHAEL ROTHENBERG