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  • Rumors abounded about the girl and Chang Sunto's miraculous recovery, and while some had talked of an antidote, no one was coming clean.†   (source)
  • But on the other hand: 'Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.'†   (source)
  • Suspicion abounds.†   (source)
  • Disastrous possibilities abounded: Rembrandt's Storm on the Sea of Galilee, the only seascape he'd ever painted, according to rumor all but ruined from being stored improperly.†   (source)
  • Tales abound of one or another climber who decided to remain in his or her sleeping bag after detecting some inauspicious vibe in the ether and thereby survived a catastrophe that wiped out others who failed to heed the portents.†   (source)
  • Anecdotes abound: one of the famous oil painters whom King Billy supports finds His Majesty walking head down, hands clasped behind him, one foot on the garden path and one in the mud, obviously lost in thought.†   (source)
  • Skunks abound, and foxes and coyotes and wolves and weasels—all predators.†   (source)
  • IN THE FIRST TWO WEEKS of April 1893 the weather was gorgeous, but other cruelties abounded.†   (source)
  • Henry VI, Part II gives us the Shakespearean formula for the same thing, although a bit more mixed, "Sometimes bath the brightest day a cloud, / And after summer evermore succeeds / Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold; / So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet."†   (source)
  • Most cases of sabotage were not reported in our controlled press, but rumors abounded.†   (source)
  • A man and a woman were housed one cage away from Zeitoun, and soon a rumor abounded that the man was a sniper, that it had been he who had been shooting at the helicopters that had tried to land on the roof of a hospital.†   (source)
  • The usual rumors abound of sexual freedom, sexual slavery, drugs, nudity, mind control, poor hygiene, tax evasion, monkey-worship, torture, prolonged and hideous death.†   (source)
  • He glanced abound the room, noting that Hawat's men already had been over it, checking, making it safe for a duke's heir.†   (source)
  • Vendettas abounded.†   (source)
  • So, they are not underground, But as nerves and veins abound In the growths of upper air, And they feel the sun and rain, And the energy again That made them what they were!†   (source)
  • My willingness to do so was hampered by an abounding ignorance of how it should be done and a fumbling awkwardness with small objects.†   (source)
  • What pih ought to do next in its adopted piece of Haiti, where amc's abounded.†   (source)
  • The first worry lines appeared within a fortnight; the first wrinkles within a month, and before the year was out, creases abounded.†   (source)
  • Beyond the reach of the lanterns, shadows abounded.†   (source)
  • Though mud abounded underfoot, the sun, so long shrouded by snow and cloud, seemed an object freshly made, and the trees-Mr. Clutter's orchard of pear and apple trees, the elms shading the lane-were lightly veiled in a haze of virginal green.†   (source)
  • Plots and counterplots abound not only in their official dealings with the government but within families.†   (source)
  • It was wonderful place to hunt as it abounded with game.†   (source)
  • RUMORS ABOUND IN THE COOKHOUSE.†   (source)
  • The message repeats, and groans and eye-rolling abound.†   (source)
  • Plainly put, Sophie had her work cut out for her, and their relationship quickly became defined by a recognizable cycle: Will interacts in any way with some girl, rumors abound, Sophie goes after said girl, then after Will, they argue, break up, get back together.†   (source)
  • The town abounded in saloons, of course, but at first the boys were too spooked to go in one.†   (source)
  • The Athenians were brilliant philosophers and abounded in empathy that made them wonderful writers and philosophers, yet they did not even debate their reliance on slavery.†   (source)
  • But there were alternatives: rats abounded in the streets, and somewhere very near a dog was howling hopelessly.†   (source)
  • The women, who were never asked to do more than stay at home, cook food, and make clothing, now must take the place of the men and face the dangers which abound beyond the village.†   (source)
  • The Lu family's standing and wealth abounded.†   (source)
  • A wooden bench on iron legs, the kind Prague's parks abound in.†   (source)
  • The leper child who staked out this territory where foreigners abounded had blossomed into a teen seemingly overnight.†   (source)
  • But-and you must trust me on this-your kind abound in love.†   (source)
  • Theories abound, each one less likely than the one before.†   (source)
  • "Suppose the colonies do abound in men, what does that signify?" he asked.†   (source)
  • I move among the elite of Paris, where gossip abounds, and that's often helpful.†   (source)
  • Such stories abound at all the best parties.†   (source)
  • No one knows why this limitation should exist, though theories abound.†   (source)
  • Clams and cockles abounded hereabouts; mussels and muskfish, frogs and turtles, mud crabs and leopard crabs and climber crabs, red eels, black eels, striped eels, lampreys, and oysters; all made frequent appearances on the carved wooden table where the servants of the ManyFaced God took their meals.†   (source)
  • Nightingales chirped from within gilded cages and flowers abounded: purple orchids, stargazer lilies, brilliant red tulips, and others so exotic and lush that they suggested an underlying magic or technology at work.†   (source)
  • Caesurae abounding.†   (source)
  • Confederate soldiers' letters and diaries continued in 1864 and even into 1865 to abound with such expressions as this "gigantic struggle for liberty," for "the great Democratic principles of States' Rights and States' Sovereignty," for "the dear rights of freemen" against "tyranny and oppression," a cause "made a thousand times dearer by the sacrifice it has cost and is costing us."†   (source)
  • Game birds —wild duck and snipe—abounded in all of the coves and marshes.†   (source)
  • But the "Whitechapel" edition, besides being a fragment, abounds in such corrupt and probably spurious lines, as we have mentioned elsewhere, and is hardly to be trusted.†   (source)
  • Flowers abounded beside the casket, carefully tended by the two undertakers, who seemed to encourage the atmosphere of sorrow and hysteria by their dramatic presentation of each new part of the ceremony.†   (source)
  • Phoenix legends abound throughout the Universes: the creature that dies but is immortal, rising ever young from its own ashes.†   (source)
  • The priest came frequently to see the Guizacs and he would always stop in and visit Mrs. McIntyre too and they would walk abound the place and she would point out her improvements and listen to his rattling talk.†   (source)
  • "He said in the last days evil would abound," said Sister Price.†   (source)
  • Ahead lay the scalloped ocean and the abounding blessed isles.   (source)
    abounding = abundant or plentiful
  • Countless rumors of treachery abounded, although with no autopsy, none was ever confirmed.†   (source)
  • Questions abounded, and yet the answers seemed only to bring deeper questions.†   (source)
  • There, he strung and cooked his latest catch of the cod, which abounded in these waters.†   (source)
  • Avenues of wondrous possibilities abound where once there was a single alley through the darkness.†   (source)
  • "But alas, swearing abounds, all classes swear," he noted sadly.†   (source)
  • Pickpockets so abound in Paris one should always carry a backup.†   (source)
  • False passports abound over here, as we happen to know.†   (source)
  • Despite the reforming tendencies of the country's present government, the town abounds both in disgruntled Tories, and also in petty provincial snobberies; and I anticipate that your bearish and carelessly dressed, and what is more to the purpose, your Yankee democrat friend, will be viewed with some suspicion by its more partisan inhabitants.†   (source)
  • We pray to a moon: she is round— Luck with us will then abound, What we seek for shall be found In the land of solid ground.†   (source)
  • History abounds with sobering examples: After decades of wandering the seas and overcoming all manner of deadly hazards, Odysseus finally returned to Ithaca, only to leave it again a few years later.†   (source)
  • Horror stories abound about the Sound.†   (source)
  • It was clear that the fields abounded with plenty of poisons, too, and not only jimsonweed and bittersweet and common nightshade, deadly amanita and green death caps and common locoweed, with which I had a passing familiarity.†   (source)
  • Over the rattle of coffee cups, to the shuffle and click of the slide projector, the experts read their prepared remarks, technical terms and acronyms abounding, now and then old saws—"Don't let perfect be the enemy of good."†   (source)
  • Rumors of coups abounded.†   (source)
  • A putrid dampness abounds; all is decay and rot, but there is the strength of time having hardened this decomposition, petrifying it.†   (source)
  • In the soft touch market, scams abound.†   (source)
  • Ten million bobbing heads that ride above the tideline of taxi stripes, all brain-waved differently, and yes the street abounds in idiosyncrasy, in the human veer, but you have to go to roof level to see the thing distinct, preserved in masonry and brass.†   (source)
  • But this is an ugly situation for me who does not abound in philosophy and who cannot and will not trim.†   (source)
  • He opened the glass case to retrieve abound, delicate-looking manuscript entitled De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium.†   (source)
  • Theories abounded on how, if, and why Ryan Evans, who some still speculated was BoneMan, did what he did.†   (source)
  • And that was how it was throughout Transylvania and Hungary and Bulgaria, and through all those countries where the peasants know that the living dead walk, and the legends of the vampires abound.†   (source)
  • ") Oil the cover of the second notebook, the handwriting of which he was so proud, a script abounding in curly, feminine flourishes, proclaimed the contents to be "The Private Diary of Perry Edward Smith"-an inaccurate description, for it was not in the least a diary but, rather, a form of anthology consisting of obscure facts ("Every fifteen years Mars gets closer.†   (source)
  • They won't get homemade popcorn balls any more, though, or apples: rumors of razor blades abound, and the possibility of poison.†   (source)
  • She missed her boys more than she could express, and worried more than ever once shelearned of the move to Holland, "a country so damp, abounding in stagnant water, the air of which is said to be very unfriendly to foreigners."†   (source)
  • Virgin Marys abound.†   (source)
  • I led you to Rodchenko, fed you names in ministries where rumors abounded, rumors Rodchenko himself investigated for you.†   (source)
  • 5 The literature of psychoanalysis abounds in examples of such desperate fixations.†   (source)
  • Running water abounds within a Washingtonian stone's throw and in all the pipes.†   (source)
  • The official ideology abounds with contradictions even when there is no practical reason for them.†   (source)
  • Images of virgin birth abound in the popular tales as well as in myth.†   (source)
  • The infancies abound in anecdotes of precocious strength, cleverness, and wisdom.†   (source)
  • And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.†   (source)
  • They were a kindly people, courteous, generous, filled with abounding good nature, but sturdy, virile, easy to anger.†   (source)
  • But her biographers have erred in one direction as greatly as the Franciscan did in another; they have tried to invest her with a host of graces, to read back into her life and person some of the beauties that abound in her letters, whereas all real knowledge of this wonderful woman must proceed from the act of humiliating her and of divesting her of all beauties save one.†   (source)
  • In fact, the only habit he was known to have was that of cultivating the society of the Spanish dancers and musicians who abound in our town.†   (source)
  • Volumes in English, French, German, and Russian abounded, and there were vast quantities of Chinese and other Eastern scripts.†   (source)
  • His conversation abounded in long pauses during which his mind seemed to remain motionless; he always brought one back with a start to the exact point where he had stopped.†   (source)
  • In such buildings England abounded, and, in the last decade of their grandeur, Englishmen seemed for the first time to become conscious of what before was taken for granted, and to salute their achievement at the moment of extinction.†   (source)
  • …from the way in which, I dimly apprehend, particles of energy group and regroup themselves in separate magnetic systems; a metaphor ready to hand for the man who can speak of these things with assurance; not for me, who can only say that England abounded in these small companies of intimate friends, so that, as in this case of Julia and myself, we could live in the same street in London, see at times, a few miles distant, the rural horizon, could have a liking one for the other, a mild…†   (source)
  • They abound also in the legends of the Christian saints, as in the following charming French tale of Saint Martha.†   (source)
  • Modern literature is devoted, in great measure, to a courageous, open-eyed observation of the sickeningly broken figurations that abound before us, around us, and within.†   (source)
  • The transcending of this pair of opposites is not encouraged (indeed. is rejected as "pantheism" and has sometimes been rewarded with the stake); nevertheless, the prayers and diaries of the Christian mystics abound in ecstatic descriptions of the unitive, soul-shattering experience (see above, p. 31), while Dante's vision at the conclusion of the Divine Comedy (see above, p. 164) certainly goes beyond the orthodox, dualistic, son, retistic dogma of the finality of the personalities of…†   (source)
  • Throughout the ancient world such myths and rites abounded: the deaths and resurrections of Tammuz, Adonis, Mithra, Virbius, Attis, and Osiris, and of their various animal representatives (goats and sheep, bulls, pigs, horses, fish, and birds) are known to every student of comparative religion; the popular carnival games of the Whitsuntide Louts, Green Georges, John Barleycorns, and Kostrubonkos, Carrying-out-Winter, Bringing-in-Summer, and Killing of the Christmas Wren have continued…†   (source)
  • He would put his arms abound her and kiss her as before.†   (source)
  • DE GUICHE (to whom Cuigy has spoken in a low voice): In feats of arms, already your career Abounded.†   (source)
  • She had perfect health, abounding spirits.†   (source)
  • In His abounding strength and mercy, is peace and forgiveness.†   (source)
  • Game of all kinds abounded in these fastnesses and fled before the approach of the hunters.†   (source)
  • Two hours after he again landed at Pianosa, where he was assured that red partridges abounded.†   (source)
  • 'And, sure enough, they were catching the little green crabs with which the water abounded.†   (source)
  • *t The Code of 1650 abounds in preventive measures.†   (source)
  • They abound in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana.†   (source)
  • "Does game abound!" suddenly demanded the other, who paid but little attention to March's raillery.†   (source)
  • The rents are high, and day-laborers and "contract" hands abound.†   (source)
  • Moscow, abounding in provisions, arms, munitions, and incalculable wealth, is in Napoleon's hands.†   (source)
  • In my outward lot, which you ask about, I have all things and abound.†   (source)
  • A man abounding in questions; but he was a friend of thine, chela.†   (source)
  • The abounding good cheer of these English whalers is matter for historical research.†   (source)
  • Does the land abound with such a race to this hour?†   (source)
  • Lobsters, crabs and mussels also abounded on the shore.†   (source)
  • Then everything rises, the pavements begin to seethe, popular redoubts abound.†   (source)
  • When it's fine, and we go out for a walk in the evening, the streets abound in enjoyment for us.†   (source)
  • I have all things and abound at Snowfield.†   (source)
  • There opportunities of losing oneself abound.†   (source)
  • [6] The skeletons of dead trees abound in this orchard.†   (source)
  • However, manufactories of chemical products abound in the Faubourg Saint-Marceau.†   (source)
  • The chase abounds in grimaces and in comical postures.†   (source)
  • The "drawing-rooms" particularly abounded in remarks of this nature.†   (source)
  • The epoch, surnamed "of the riots," abounds in details of this nature.†   (source)
  • "He abounded in pleasantries, which were more peculiar than witty," says Benjamin.†   (source)
  • Weeds abounded, which was a great piece of luck for a poor corner of land.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Peniston was Mr. Bart's widowed sister, and if she was by no means the richest of the family group, its other members nevertheless abounded in reasons why she was clearly destined by Providence to assume the charge of Lily.†   (source)
  • My father had fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull.†   (source)
  • Such quasi-muscles abounded in the crablike handling-machine which, on my first peeping out of the slit, I watched unpacking the cylinder.†   (source)
  • Accordingly they drifted through a series of those grey-brown streets, neither commodious nor picturesque, in which the eastern quarter of the city abounds.†   (source)
  • …early Swann in whom I can distinguish the charming mistakes of my childhood, and who, incidentally, is less like his successor than he is like the other people I knew at that time, as though one's life were a series of galleries in which all the portraits of any one period had a marked family likeness, the same (so to speak) tonality—this early Swann abounding in leisure, fragrant with the scent of the great chestnut-tree, of baskets of raspberries and of a sprig of tarragon.†   (source)
  • His pity was moved, but nevertheless he felt an abounding sense of relief and security, now, which revealed to him in a degree which he had not fully appreciated before how vast a weight of dread had been lying upon him since the day he lifted his voice against this bloody-minded outcast.†   (source)
  • Never had Lefferts so abounded in the sentiments that adorn Christian manhood and exalt the sanctity of the home.†   (source)
  • Further away still, vegetable gardens abounded, with frequent small plantations of orange or lemon trees intervening.†   (source)
  • By daylight, Jurgis was able to observe that the color on her cheeks was not the old natural one of abounding health; her complexion was in reality a parchment yellow, and there were black rings under her eyes.†   (source)
  • With an instinct as to possibilities, he did not now, as he had intended, make for the first station beyond the town, but plunged still farther under the firs, which here abounded for miles.†   (source)
  • It was situated on a beautifully wooded bench above the wild brakes of a tributary to the larger river near by, and game abounded there.†   (source)
  • But what especially struck him was the way in which she detached herself, by a hundred undefinable shades, from the persons who most abounded in her own style.†   (source)
  • And this lad, who was regarded, and quite rightly, in the town as a 'bad character,' was so abounding in that spirit which had served to decorate the porch of Saint-Andre-des-Champs, and particularly in the feelings of respect due, in Franchise's eyes, to all 'poor invalids,' and, above all, to her own 'poor mistress,' that he had, when he bent down to raise my aunt's head from her pillow, the same air of preraphaelite simplicity and zeal which the little angels in the has-reliefs…†   (source)
  • There were wax candles, in massive brass candelabra, burning softly under yellow silk shades; full, fragrant roses, yellow and red, abounded.†   (source)
  • To enjoy the sensation as often as possible, he subscribed to all the reviews dealing with book-collecting in general, and American history in particular, and as allusions to his library abounded in the pages of these journals, which formed his only reading, he came to regard himself as figuring prominently in the public eye, and to enjoy the thought of the interest which would be excited if the persons he met in the street, or sat among in travelling, were suddenly to be told that he…†   (source)
  • Brakes of the tributary consisted of groves of pecan trees and cottonwoods, where cold springs abounded, and the deep pools contained fish.†   (source)
  • "There are so many inquisitive people and institutions abounding," said Arobin, "that one is really forced as a matter of convenience these days to assume the virtue of an occupation if he has it not."†   (source)
  • There she had been sorely tempted to linger on in a society which asked of her only to amuse and charm it, without enquiring too curiously how she had acquired her gift for doing so; but Selden, before they parted, had pressed on her the urgent need of returning at once to her aunt, and Lord Hubert, when he presently reappeared in London, abounded in the same counsel.†   (source)
  • I sincerely hope your Christmas in Hertfordshire may abound in the gaieties which that season generally brings, and that your beaux will be so numerous as to prevent your feeling the loss of the three of whom we shall deprive you.†   (source)
  • "The material world," continued Dupin, "abounds with very strict analogies to the immaterial; and thus some color of truth has been given to the rhetorical dogma, that metaphor, or simile, may be made to strengthen an argument, as well as to embellish a description.†   (source)
  • But this august dignity I treat of, is not the dignity of kings and robes, but that abounding dignity which has no robed investiture.†   (source)
  • Chopper knew nothing further; he described Mr. Osborne's appearance, it is true, and his interview with his lawyer, wondered how the governor had sworn at nobody, and—especially as the wine circled round—abounded in speculations and conjectures.†   (source)
  • Neither Asiatics nor Africans abound in Paris; but, without denying the inference, I will now merely call your attention to three points.†   (source)
  • To walk in a winter morning in a wood where these birds abounded, their native woods, and hear the wild cockerels crow on the trees, clear and shrill for miles over the resounding earth, drowning the feebler notes of other birds—think of it!†   (source)
  • And here, since he had so valiantly forborne all other wickedness, poor Mr. Dimmesdale longed at least to shake hands with the tarry black-guard, and recreate himself with a few improper jests, such as dissolute sailors so abound with, and a volley of good, round, solid, satisfactory, and heaven-defying oaths!†   (source)
  • …it even to Mary; while uncertain of the issue, he could not have borne any participation of his feelings, but this had been his business; and he spoke with such a glow of what his solicitude had been, and used such strong expressions, was so abounding in the deepest interest, in twofold motives, in views and wishes more than could be told, that Fanny could not have remained insensible of his drift, had she been able to attend; but her heart was so full and…†   (source)
  • But she nevertheless made no scruple of abounding in her cousin's sense and pretending to sigh for the charms of her native land.†   (source)
  • If enemies have reached the portage at all, a thing by no means probable, as our scouts are abroad, they will surely be found skirting the column, where scalps abound the most.†   (source)
  • Fish of various sorts abounded in its river, and the sportsman had only to cast his line to haul in a bass or some other member of the finny tribe, which then peopled the waters, as the air above the swamps of this fruitful latitude are known to be filled with insects.†   (source)
  • I only hope,' said my aunt, shaking her head, 'that her husband is one of those Poker husbands who abound in the newspapers, and will beat her well with one.'†   (source)
  • Half-length portraits in crayons abounded all through the house, but were so dispersed that I found the brother of a youthful officer of mine in the china-closet and the grey old age of my pretty young bride, with a flower in her bodice, in the breakfast-room.†   (source)
  • One exception there was, however, in a very antique elbow-chair, with a high back, carved elaborately in oak, and a roomy depth within its arms, that made up, by its spacious comprehensiveness, for the lack of any of those artistic curves which abound in a modern chair.†   (source)
  • Newman was, according to the French phrase, only abounding in her own sense, but his temperate raptures exerted a singular effect upon the ardor which she herself had so freely manifested a few months before.†   (source)
  • The boy waited, played near her, caught several of the little brown butterflies which abounded, and then said as he waited again, "I like going on better than biding still.†   (source)
  • Polyps and echinoderms abounded on the seafloor: various isis coral, cornularian coral living in isolation, tufts of virginal genus Oculina formerly known by the name "white coral," prickly fungus coral in the shape of mushrooms, sea anemone holding on by their muscular disks, providing a literal flowerbed adorned by jellyfish from the genus Porpita wearing collars of azure tentacles, and starfish that spangled the sand, including veinlike feather stars from the genus Asterophyton that…†   (source)
  • Academies and minor edifices of learning meet the eye of the stranger at every few miles as be winds his way through this uneven territory, and places for the worship of God abound with that frequency which characterize a moral and reflecting people, and with that variety of exterior and canonical government which flows from unfettered liberty of conscience.†   (source)
  • …said, for the popular revulsion had even travelled that length of self-destruction from years of priestly impostors, plunderers, and profligates; in the distant burial-places, reserved, as they wrote upon the gates, for Eternal Sleep; in the abounding gaols; and in the streets along which the sixties rolled to a death which had become so common and material, that no sorrowful story of a haunting Spirit ever arose among the people out of all the working of the Guillotine; with a solemn…†   (source)
  • Down a path between the piles he walked slowly, wondering if the man of whose genius there were here such abounding proofs could have been his father's slave?†   (source)
  • He kept on his course, through many winding and narrow ways, until he reached Bethnal Green; then, turning suddenly off to the left, he soon became involved in a maze of the mean and dirty streets which abound in that close and densely-populated quarter.†   (source)
  • The period of the narrative adopted was the reign of Richard I., not only as abounding with characters whose very names were sure to attract general attention, but as affording a striking contrast betwixt the Saxons, by whom the soil was cultivated, and the Normans, who still reigned in it as conquerors, reluctant to mix with the vanquished, or acknowledge themselves of the same stock.†   (source)
  • The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country, and the nightmare, with her whole ninefold, seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols.†   (source)
  • This history was so sad a one (in so far as it concerned the late M. Merle, a positive adventurer, she might say, though originally so plausible, who had taken advantage, years before, of her youth and of an inexperience in which doubtless those who knew her only now would find it difficult to believe); it abounded so in startling and lamentable incidents that her companion wondered a person so eprouvee could have kept so much of her freshness, her interest in life.†   (source)
  • The weather being fine and dry, and any English road abounding in interest for him who had been so long away, he sent his valise on by the coach, and set out to walk.†   (source)
  • Hence three entirely distinct aspects: churches abounded in the City; palaces, in the Town; and colleges, in the University.†   (source)
  • His weary face now began to be painted over with a rich orange glow, and the whole front of his smock-frock and gaiters was covered with a dancing shadow pattern of thorn-twigs—the light reaching him through a leafless intervening hedge—and the metallic curve of his sheep-crook shone silver-bright in the same abounding rays.†   (source)
  • Ancient literature, which is so rich in fine historical compositions, does not contain a single great historical system, whilst the poorest of modern literatures abound with them.†   (source)
  • He was all the more firmly set on this severity, since M. sur M., being a garrison town, opportunities for corruption abounded.†   (source)
  • It abounded in fruits of almost every description, from the hardy apple of the north to the delicate orange of the south.†   (source)
  • In a few minutes he emerged, wearing, to her surprise, a brilliant rosette, while more surprising still, in his hand he carried a flag of somewhat homely construction, formed by tacking one of the small Union Jacks, which abounded in the town to-day, to the end of a deal wand—probably the roller from a piece of calico.†   (source)
  • Seated around her were various members of that rising race with which a Southern household abounds, engaged in shelling peas, peeling potatoes, picking pin-feathers out of fowls, and other preparatory arrangements,—Dinah every once in a while interrupting her meditations to give a poke, or a rap on the head, to some of the young operators, with the pudding-stick that lay by her side.†   (source)
  • A town where such monsters abounded was hardly more than a sort of low comedy, which could not be taken account of in a well-bred scheme of the universe.†   (source)
  • Nothing, however, could exceed Henrietta's amiability on this point; she used to abound in the sense of Isabel's irony and to enumerate with elation the hours she had spent with this perfect man of the world—a term that had ceased to make with her, as previously, for opprobrium.†   (source)
  • There were as yet no tidings of Gurth and his charge, which should long since have been driven home from the forest and such was the insecurity of the period, as to render it probable that the delay might be explained by some depreciation of the outlaws, with whom the adjacent forest abounded, or by the violence of some neighbouring baron, whose consciousness of strength made him equally negligent of the laws of property.†   (source)
  • Yet further, these people were Jews of Bethlehem, with whom the idea was especially commonplace; for their locality abounded with caves great and small, some of which had been dwelling-places from the time of the Emim and Horites.†   (source)
  • In France contributions in kind take place on very few roads; in America upon almost all the thoroughfares: in the former country the roads are free to all travellers; in the latter turnpikes abound.†   (source)
  • But as we are to see a great deal of Amelia, there is no harm in saying, at the outset of our acquaintance, that she was a dear little creature; and a great mercy it is, both in life and in novels, which (and the latter especially) abound in villains of the most sombre sort, that we are to have for a constant companion so guileless and good-natured a person.†   (source)
  • As auxiliary to this scarcity of fuel, one of the large springs which abound in that country gushed out of the side of the ascent above, and, after creeping sluggishly along the level land, saturating the mossy covering of the rock with moisture, it swept around the base of the little cone that formed the pinnacle of the mountain, and, entering the canopy of smoke near one of the terminations of the terrace, found its way to the lake, not by dashing from rock to rock, but by the secret…†   (source)
  • …in temporary huts, of bowers of branches, as easily constructed as a bird's-nest, and which they built,—if it should be called building, when such sweet homes of a summer solstice rather grew than were made with hands,—which Nature, we will say, assisted them to rear where fruit abounded, where fish and game were plentiful, or, most especially, where the sense of beauty was to be gratified by a lovelier shade than elsewhere, and a more exquisite arrangement of lake, wood, and hill.†   (source)
  • Democratic communities abound in men of this kind; and in proportion as the equality of conditions becomes greater, their multitude increases.†   (source)
  • Now, farther north and farther west these bits of water abound; and you're young, and may yet live to see 'em.†   (source)
  • This neighborhood, at the time of which I am speaking, was one of those highly favored places which abound with chronicle and great men.†   (source)
  • There, as in every spot where Monte Cristo stopped, if but for two days, luxury abounded and life went on with the utmost ease.†   (source)
  • "I cannot deny your words," he said, "for I am little skilled in horses, though born where they abound.†   (source)
  • For by some curious fatality, as it is often noted of your metropolitan freebooters that they ever encamp around the halls of justice, so sinners, gentlemen, most abound in holiest vicinities.†   (source)
  • The more numerous local powers are, the greater is the number of men in whom they are vested by law; and as this want is hourly felt, the more profusely do newspapers abound.†   (source)
  • A vessel on Lake Superior, in North America, was wrecked on a small island abounding in rattlesnakes, and for that reason uninhabited.†   (source)
  • The ingenuous Alice gazed at his free air and proud carriage, as she would have looked upon some precious relic of the Grecian chisel, to which life had been imparted by the intervention of a miracle; while Heyward, though accustomed to see the perfection of form which abounds among the uncorrupted natives, openly expressed his admiration at such an unblemished specimen of the noblest proportions of man.†   (source)
  • It was for him the painted eyelids drooped lowest over the lustrous almond eyes; for him the love-stories caught from the professionals abounding in the streets of Alexandria were repeated with emphasis and lavishment of poetry; for him endless exclamations of sympathy, and smiles, and little privileges with hand and hair and cheek and lips, and songs of the Nile, and displays of jewelry, and subtleties of lace in veils and scarfs, and other subtleties not less exquisite in flosses of…†   (source)
  • Rivers abound, it is true; but this region is nearly destitute of brooks and the smaller water courses, which tend so much to comfort and fertility.†   (source)
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