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to be abundant or plentiful

Once more it was pouring, and my irregular lawn, well-shaved by Gatsby's gardener, abounded in small, muddy swamps and prehistoric marshes.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

abounded = was abundant or plentiful

Patches on faded pants and dresses abounded on boys and girls come so recently from the heat of the cotton fields.
Mildred D. Taylor -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

abounded = were plentiful

Ahead lay the scalloped ocean and the abounding blessed isles.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
"He said in the last days evil would abound," said Sister Price.
James Baldwin -- Go Tell It on the Mountain
Never had Lefferts so abounded in the sentiments that adorn Christian manhood and exalt the sanctity of the home.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
Theories abounded on how, if, and why Ryan Evans, who some still speculated was BoneMan, did what he did.
Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters
No one knows why this limitation should exist, though theories abound.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
Moscow, abounding in provisions, arms, munitions, and incalculable wealth, is in Napoleon's hands.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
My willingness to do so was hampered by an abounding ignorance of how it should be done and a fumbling awkwardness with small objects.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The town abounded in saloons, of course, but at first the boys were too spooked to go in one.
Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
At least nobody noticed this time, because hoots and hollers abounded as dozens of people stormed the stage.
Sharon M. Draper -- Out of My Mind
In the soft touch market, scams abound.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
Tales abounded of knights performing strange, secretive rituals within the Temple Church's unusual sanctuary.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
The official ideology abounds with contradictions even when there is no practical reason for them.
George Orwell -- 1984
Rumors abounded about the girl and Chang Sunto's miraculous recovery, and while some had talked of an antidote, no one was coming clean.
Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
Phoenix legends abound throughout the Universes: the creature that dies but is immortal, rising ever young from its own ashes.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road
Such quasi-muscles abounded in the crablike handling-machine which, on my first peeping out of the slit, I watched unpacking the cylinder.
H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
The Lu family's standing and wealth abounded.
Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
In almost every article of defense we abound.
Thomas Paine -- Common Sense
A man abounding in questions; but he was a friend of thine, chela.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim

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