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  • the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance.   (source)
    abundance = great quantities
  • Liesel would have given him some food from her place, but there wasn't an abundance of it there, either.†   (source)
  • As it turns out, Jack Will didn't need to learn any of these virtues—he already had them in abundance.†   (source)
  • Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.†   (source)
  • "The Song of the City" was long—there were verses about "streets of light and walls of stone," about "citizens with sturdy hearts," about "stored abundance never-ending."†   (source)
  • When it became abundantly clear that I hadn't inherited a shred of his athletic talents, he settled for trying to turn me into a passionate spectator.†   (source)
  • Those who fought it out at the Cornucopia will have food, an abundance of water from the lake, torches or flashlights, and weapons they're itching to use.†   (source)
  • The peril of their situation was abundantly clear.†   (source)
  • And that is what he found, in abundance.†   (source)
  • Abundant traces of an ancient and once highly developed civilization, though this region is now only sparsely inhabited by roaming bands of primitive nomads.†   (source)
  • My father's stories made one fact abundantly clear: I did not want to go to camp.†   (source)
  • "Abundantly," he said.†   (source)
  • No self-respecting hillbilly could stand idly by, so I made it abundantly clear that I meant to beat my new stepbrother to within an inch of his life.†   (source)
  • As the era of cheap, abundant energy drew to a close, poverty and unrest began to spread like a virus.†   (source)
  • It was the first place in their weeks of walking that had an abundance of food.†   (source)
  • And, of course, an abundance of cinquefoils—the five-petaled decorative flowers often found at the top of archways, directly over the keystone.†   (source)
  • Those had appeared suddenly and in abundance about two years ago.†   (source)
  • It was so abundantly clear that George was mentally ill that it came as no shock when we discovered that the doctor who had examined him at Bryce Hospital was a fraud with no medical training.†   (source)
  • No, the question is not whether you have the ability to be an Executive you have that in abundance — but whether you have the inclination.†   (source)
  • The desert flowers, so abundant in April, were dying now.†   (source)
  • The judge has made it abundantly clear, by heaving deep sighs and becoming increasingly cranky, that he is bored with this retrial.†   (source)
  • The glances our way are abundant.†   (source)
  • Animals like Dromaeosaurus, Oviraptor, Velociraptor, and Coelurus-predators three to six feet tall-must have been found here in abundance.†   (source)
  • A patient and generous man in his mid-fifties, Mr. Luftig loved to tell me stories about his son's life in New York City, a fantasyland of endless opportunities, an abundance of food, and few restrictions against Jews.†   (source)
  • I liked to imagine them because they were the soil, and the soil was the treasure, thicker, richer, more alive with a past and future abundance of life than any soil anywhere.†   (source)
  • Your father ordered that I was to be kept alive for as long as possible—to endure the misery that Endovier gives in abundance.†   (source)
  • Before things started, food was prepared in abundance with everyone's help.†   (source)
  • THE LUSCIOUS-LOOKING WHITE OR YELLOW FRUIT IS ABUNDANT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA.†   (source)
  • It was an abundant Vermont lunch, more like a dinner, and at first it had no more reality than a meal in the theater.†   (source)
  • The clarity of everything she saw or touched or heard was certainly not prompted by the fresh beginnings and abundance of early summer; it was an inflamed awareness of an approaching conclusion, of events converging on an end point.†   (source)
  • His yams grew abundantly, not only in his motherland but also in Umuofia, where his friend gave them out year by year to sharecroppers.†   (source)
  • One thing I have in abundance here are bags.†   (source)
  • "Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance and …. that's all I remember, Ma," I said.†   (source)
  • She takes the hardbound green volume, with gold lettering and a line drawing of a girl with abundant red hair in a chignon on the front, and opens it.†   (source)
  • We can be thankful among ourselves that we have an abundance to eat and the good health to enjoy it.†   (source)
  • And just because Michigan's minority students have lower scores on convergence tests doesn't mean they don't have that other critical trait in abundance.†   (source)
  • Four people stand before a giant hollow cube, and the abundance of stylish black clothing and deliberately mussed hair reveals Meredith belongs to the resident art clique.†   (source)
  • HATHORNE'S VOICE: Now, Martha Corey, there is abundant evidence in our hands to show that you have given yourself to the reading of fortunes.†   (source)
  • Next, I wound up in Brazil, where I read about Bahia tobacco, the abundance of coffee, the one and a half million inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco and Sao Paulo and, last but not least, the Amazon River.†   (source)
  • Other than the stings, there's nothing on him but the normal bruises and scabs that any kid has in abundance.†   (source)
  • In cities they'll have access to abundant resources and willing servants.†   (source)
  • Before sailors took to the air, there'd been an abundance of stories about the bad luck that would befall any who harmed an albatross.†   (source)
  • We watched Earth develop, watched it through the times of growth and abundance when everything moved, and through the times of ice and snow when nothing did.†   (source)
  • But it was special to him: And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in His good works.†   (source)
  • "I think more than ever of the value of the island," he wrote to Harry Codman, "and of the importance of using all possible, original means of securing impervious screening, dense massive piles of foliage on its borders; with abundant variety of small detail in abject subordination to general effect….†   (source)
  • Frost's crop is abundant, suggesting he has done something right, but the effort has worn him out.†   (source)
  • He was close to her, far too close if he was a normal person with everyday ideas of personal space, but it was abundantly clear he was not this kind of person, a normal kind of person.†   (source)
  • Nothing was out there that this sister-girl did not provide in abundance: a racing heart, dreaminess, society, danger, beauty.†   (source)
  • The fields produce abundant crops and so on.†   (source)
  • Harrison is where you will find an abundance of fast food workers.†   (source)
  • The glass men and women settled into Elinor's attic, and the trolls dug caves among the big old trees that grew in abundance in Elinor's garden.†   (source)
  • My job is to assess your courage—and you have that in abundance.†   (source)
  • For although I am sure he never had the chance to encounter a tiger beneath the dining table, when I think over all that I know or have heard concerning him, I can think of at least several instances of his displaying in abundance that very quality he so admired in the butler of his story.†   (source)
  • ") A former student emailed to say I had helped inspire him to create a new personal-development Web site titled "Stop Sucking and Live a Life of Abundance," designed to help people who are living far below their potential.†   (source)
  • This area is home to an abundance of flora and wildlife including elk, bear, deer, and mountain goat.†   (source)
  • The demonstration should make everything abundantly clear.†   (source)
  • You have an abundance of a particular kind of neuron, called, quite simply, a mirror neuron.†   (source)
  • Her abundant sexuality was withering without glory, her lovemaking was slowed by her sobbing, and her eyelids were beginning to darken with old bitterness.†   (source)
  • Halleck murmured: " 'For they shall suck of the abundance of the seas and of the treasure hid in the sand.'†   (source)
  • But the returned fisherman usually has a peculiar abundance of gumption, usually for the very same things he was sick to death of a few weeks before.†   (source)
  • In 1662, a native of St. John's, Newfoundland, named W. E. Cormack journeyed on foot across the island and noted the abundance of the local water dogs, which he found to be "admirably trained as retrievers in fowling and …. otherwise useful."†   (source)
  • His gloved hands were still clean, they had touched nothing except the chilled skin of the deceased's chest, and so he took from beside his instrument tray a pad and pencil and noted for himself the color and texture of this extruded foam that was abundant enough to cover the deceased's bearded chin and his mustache almost entirely.†   (source)
  • I see the house as I saw it once or twice as a child: the roof with its fairytale peak, the verandah running along three sides, the windows lighted up, glowing with lived life, a place of abundance, a magic place of memory and desire.†   (source)
  • Judging by the garish purple background and abundance of animated gifs on the page, it was a "homemade" website, to put it nicely.†   (source)
  • The botanist wrote in her report that it was related to the tea tree and that it was sometimes confused with its more common cousin Leptospermum scoparium, which grew in abundance in New Zealand.†   (source)
  • Dinners were always noisy, and they were always abundant with great pots of boiled rice, platters of home-grown vegetables, fish Papa caught.†   (source)
  • Honestly speaking, however, the information regarding Eri Asai that we can glean from the appearance of this room is far from abundant.†   (source)
  • Everything-the cocky tilt of his ginger-haired head, the squint in his left eye (as though he were sighting a target), the tiny cowboy scarf knotted round his throat-was abundantly attractive.†   (source)
  • They brought the platters of rice into the hall and added them to the abundance of dishes already in place.†   (source)
  • The creek where the fish were so abundant that we had to build many caches to dry them?†   (source)
  • Africa had leopards in abundance, but no tigers.†   (source)
  • The land is divided between bare, bouldered mountain slopes and fertile, rain-fed bottomlands that supported both grazing and abundant agricultural production.†   (source)
  • An ocean breeze flowed in; she felt abundantly alive, somehow connected to the sand and the sea by this wind.†   (source)
  • But when she returned softly to the interior, after laving face and hands out at the wash-basin, and ordering her abundant hair, she found the little woman up and clad, slicing bacon and making coffee of generous strength from their scanty store.†   (source)
  • Though he couldn't understand how she could have forgotten her jacket since she'd brought only a couple of things with her, one thing had just made itself abundantly clear: he was definitely glad it had happened.†   (source)
  • Abundance creates the ability to give; giving creates more abundance.†   (source)
  • Now only two things were needed to turn crack into a phenomenon: an abundant supply of raw cocaine and a way to get the new product to a mass market.†   (source)
  • You could worship loudly and still act pretty lousy, abundant evidence of which was running around the Dorms.†   (source)
  • There was none, but passing with my lamp where I had been only in the dark, I realized the abundance of the Hephestial glass.†   (source)
  • Pea had just sense enough to fear Comanches--that didn't require an abundance of sense.†   (source)
  • He had the plodding force of a fleshy ex-boxer who still has reserves of deep endurance, oil reserves, fossil fuel—he had calories to burn, sweat to yield in abundance.†   (source)
  • What you're really doing is scrubbing out plutonium-240, which is abundant in reactor-grade plutonium but which can cause a fizzle when using it as a nuclear weapon."†   (source)
  • A local guide showed us some pictures of the abundant wheat and corn at harvest time and told us we'd come in the off-season, but I wasn't convinced.†   (source)
  • Nothing was left of the farmhouse or the outbuildings or the silo that in every other year had held the abundant harvest.†   (source)
  • There's an abundance of pasta.†   (source)
  • Again and again, despite abundant opportunity, the three boys refused to pick up the theme of press and speechmakers and portray themselves as valiant warriors who hoisted the colors against sheets of enemy fire.†   (source)
  • The younger one also lacked her mother's abundant hair; instead she had thin curls stuck tight to her scalp as though glued there.†   (source)
  • The guests were not disappointed: they had a very pleasant feast, in fact an engrossing entertainment: rich, abundant, varied, and prolonged.†   (source)
  • And so it was as she liked, stunning wallpaper of rose and gold, an abundance of damask and velvet furniture, embroidered pillows and silk trappings for the fourposter bed.†   (source)
  • It was incredible how she could sense from the half-open door the quality of their trembling, the abundance of juices, the words whispered in the ear, the most secret smells—a veritable miracle.†   (source)
  • General Dreedle devoured fresh eggs for breakfast, lunch and dinner — between meals he devoured more fresh eggs — until Milo located abundant sources of fresh veal, beef, duck, baby lamb chops, mushroom caps, broccoli, South African rock lobster tails, shrimp, hams, puddings, grapes, ice cream, strawberries and artichokes.†   (source)
  • Air, sun, water, and firewood are free, if not always abundant.†   (source)
  • I take something you Mortals have in abundance, something you don't even need."†   (source)
  • Well, Huh-Horace, you seem like someone with abundant common sense.†   (source)
  • Every kind of fruit and vegetable I knew seemed to grow in the garden, and there was even more abundance here than on my uncles' farms.†   (source)
  • Then, at the edge of the city, she saw corrugated-tin-roofed houses, abundant and closer together.†   (source)
  • Hand-to-hand combat was far more about the mind than muscle, and Tanis had both in abundance.†   (source)
  • He didn't have any frankincense, so sage, which grew in abundance in the surrounding mountains, would have to do.†   (source)
  • Fresh produce in abundance and at low prices rolled into the camps all through summer and early fall.†   (source)
  • It was meticulously neat, despite the abundance of knickknacks and memorabilia.†   (source)
  • So I drove her inside and fitted it up as her boose, fattening her through the cold months with their oats—abundant food of which the dead had no need.†   (source)
  • They multiplied prodigiously, hung abundantly from the trees, crowded the skies until they were redolent of yeast.†   (source)
  • Now, for example, I would be reassuring the Pharaoh that the flood was a gift from the gods, that once it receded, the rich black earth of the delta would bring forth abundant grain.†   (source)
  • As I tell my story, I hope that you will see that its true focus is on God and on those eternal values that He holds before us as beacons and benchmarks, to help us live lives of abundance that will ultimately glorify Him, while also lifting and bettering the lives of His children everywhere.†   (source)
  • When death was near in Prusias's Arena, his heart had made things abundantly clear.†   (source)
  • The supply was abundant even on the Upper East Side.†   (source)
  • They name their home Bird Island because of the abundance of guano coating the tree leaves.†   (source)
  • They spread for miles, from grass to brush to trees, with the motion and all the colors of fire; they seemed to celebrate an accomplished purpose, burning in unchecked, untouched abundance.†   (source)
  • Brains and ambition she had in abundance, money she didn't have at all.†   (source)
  • Some believe that Midland speech acquired its prestige as a reaction to two factors: the large increase in European immigration early in the twentieth century, just as the hitherto limitless abundance of free land in the West came to an end.†   (source)
  • Ah, but I must not forget my evening Courier from the abundant palm, whose groan Became Not I, as he constipated down A wayside bush.†   (source)
  • Will McLean," I said, trying to invest abundant dignity in that modest but comfortable monicker.†   (source)
  • So anyway, Jenny picks me up and we drive over to Brian Whittier's house (that's Heather's boyfriend and a fantastic basketball player by the way) where it turns out, Brian's parents are gone for the entire weekend—and I guess it should come as no surprise that, with no parents around, the alcohol is flowing in abundance.†   (source)
  • Then came harvest, one of the best times of the year, when the big full moon lit the fields and the slaves worked late, singing songs that had a lilt in them, songs that were like a thanksgiving for the abundance of the crop.†   (source)
  • His nephew had that in abundance.†   (source)
  • Copacetic--the word seemed to fit, bringing to my mind cornucopia and harvest, an abundance of life and color.†   (source)
  • Pa and Granny canned them from wild fruits that grew in abundance in the Arklatex area.†   (source)
  • "Yes, I know," said the Iraqi impatiently, making it abundantly clear he was familiar with her biography.†   (source)
  • These ground squirrels are abundant throughout most of the arctic, although Wolf House Bay lies just south of their range.†   (source)
  • Already they were beginning to discern what would be abundantly clear in another decade — that at the end of every project, they would all get laid off, and have to find new work at another firm, where, just as they were beginning to rise in the ranks, they'd be laid off again.†   (source)
  • But in your case, these biles are …. well, they're overabundant.†   (source)
  • My army did not rape, only taking food where there was an abundance.†   (source)
  • In mid-afternoon one of the men shot a gray timber wolf that weighed at least a hundred and thirty pounds, its big mouth full of what seemed to Mark an over-abundance of very large teeth, and he and Jim took leave of the others and walked through the woods back to the shake cabins to start supper and prepare the bough beds upon which the blankets would be spread.†   (source)
  • Her abundant vitality she somehow communicated to others, so that when Helen was present everyone's blood flowed a little faster, as Randy's did now.†   (source)
  • Because the world is so abundant.†   (source)
  • This hardly meant any abundance, however.†   (source)
  • Where there was want, today there's abundance--food, clothing, automobiles--the wonderful goods of the Ku'damm.†   (source)
  • We needed the abundance of instructors.†   (source)
  • He closed his eyes and prayed, "Dear Heavenly Father, fount of all wisdom and abundant mercy, we pray Thee that Thou wilt shed Thy light on this Thy humble servant in his hour of dilemma, and that Thou wilt guide him and minister unto him and lead his steps aright in the name of Thy beloved Son, Our Saviour, Jesus Christ.†   (source)
  • Point four: I'm asking Congress to mandate, to require as a matter of law, that our Nation's utility companies cut their massive use of oil by 50 percent within the next decade and switch to other fuels, especially coal, our most abundant energy source.†   (source)
  • She grieved with an abundance of speech, as peasants do, neither distracted nor embarrassed by strangers.†   (source)
  • Harsh talk from one in whom the springs of tenderness gushed abundant, as I knew.†   (source)
  • She, for very terror on hearing this, had wept; yet she could not deny that for such an abundance of bitterness there was a positive fountain of grief.†   (source)
  • Rarely are we met with a challenge, not to our growth or abundance, or our welfare or our security, but rather to the values and the purposes and the meaning of our beloved nation.†   (source)
  • As he set to work preparing his notes, he received abundant warning of the attacks his message would provoke.†   (source)
  • He walked across the stage without a glance at the audience— an enormous man in an abundant dress suit with long, heavy tails.†   (source)
  • She used to walk round the fields with Dick just for the pleasure of looking at its sturdy abundance, and thinking of those flat green leaves transformed into a check of several figures.†   (source)
  • I hesitated, and then, as I looked round me, I saw that the dust was less abundant and its surface less even.   (source)
    abundant = present in great quantity
  • The raisins here were even more abundant.†   (source)
  • He was bleeding slowly to death in the midst of abundance, for his life's blood was poverty.†   (source)
  • In terms of other food sources, we've got an abundance of marine life.†   (source)
  • If I wrote "abundance," he wrote "abundance."†   (source)
  • The Japanese were abundantly clear about one thing.†   (source)
  • But in a period of abundance any half-wit with a spoon can please a palate.†   (source)
  • Aches and pains were the only part of our diet that was abundant.†   (source)
  • Instead of abundance it was a holiday of waste.†   (source)
  • If Captain Westfall insisted on protocol, then she'd give it to him in abundance.†   (source)
  • Nitrogen, the most abundant element in the atmosphere, is necessary for life.†   (source)
  • Surprisingly often, given the abundance of public housing in Memphis, they had no shelter.†   (source)
  • There will always be conflict where riches gather in such abundance.†   (source)
  • E. coli 0157:H7 is a mutated version of a bacterium found abundantly in the human digestive system.†   (source)
  • It seems you two have an abundant supply.†   (source)
  • A jungle yields no abundance to feed the multitudes, and supports no leisure class.†   (source)
  • If Brahman is to have only one son, He must be as abundant as Krishna with the milkmaids, no?†   (source)
  • It all came down to what was so abundant around us but marred by salt.†   (source)
  • It was so free, so abundant, it had lost its fervor.†   (source)
  • He pressed his face to the water and saw immediately that the sea was clear and the coral abundant.†   (source)
  • The colors and shapes and words and pictures are so garish, so abundant, that they are mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • Game was abundant, and Max found a choice target within the hour.†   (source)
  • Their abundance actually frightened Eragon.†   (source)
  • Love, true love, provides an abundance of good.†   (source)
  • The same DNA was found in abundant quantities on the remains of Svavelsjö MC's Göransson.†   (source)
  • He was the god of wealth, abundance, and fertility.†   (source)
  • When boxing was illegal in California, you could find an abundance of the sweet science in Tijuana.†   (source)
  • From here their predicament became abundantly clear.†   (source)
  • Its abundance of potato bugs and gossip, perhaps.†   (source)
  • But she was not in tolerable health at Quincy, and her spirits were far from abundant.†   (source)
  • Vegetables became more abundant and chunks of meat began to appear in our soups and stews.†   (source)
  • Frey is the god of abundance and fertility, growth and vitality—I guess that explains it.†   (source)
  • Left standing, it would guarantee them abundant housing, wharves, and a market for their every need.†   (source)
  • Gold and silver had been used with abundance, and Eragon glimpsed the sparkle of many jewels.†   (source)
  • His seed, too, is cold and abundant as a river running between our thighs.†   (source)
  • Booth has left behind an abundance of clues—among them a business card bearing the name "J.†   (source)
  • But that was a normal hazard, the horses being unreliable and the prickly pear abundant.†   (source)
  • She had a Moorish, languid, and abundant air about her, which induced repose and trust.†   (source)
  • Yes, prosperity is here in fine abundance and here it will stay," said the mayor.†   (source)
  • No, they were not able to deal with matter, to produce abundance, to control this earth.†   (source)
  • All had their hair freshly coiffed and they wore makeup in abundance.†   (source)
  • We have an abundance here of every vivid hue, except green.†   (source)
  • -was the brotherhood, the security, the abundance that the plan was supposed to achieve for us!†   (source)
  • At the very top: How could a homeless kid have a dad who was the god of abundance and wealth?†   (source)
  • Their abundant correspondence salvaged events from the mists of improbable facts.†   (source)
  • "My crops are more abundant than I expected," he would write one September.†   (source)
  • Even her father noticed, attributing it to the peace of abundance.†   (source)
  • Even when "in only tolerable health," Thomas said, "her spirits arc abundant."†   (source)
  • He looked with care; great abundance had ceased to startle him, and he could see things one by one.†   (source)
  • Abundant comfort in long restoring waves warmed my mother.†   (source)
  • Such an abundance of lies I have given you, Stingo!†   (source)
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