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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
- 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
abounded = were plentiful
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