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He had a Dutch love of abundance: again and again he described the great stored barns, the groaning plenty of the Pennsylvanians.†
Chpt 1 *

abundance = large amount or quantity
the rich vision of laden ships, masted above the sea-walls, the worldnostalgic ships, bearing about them the filtered and concentrated odors of the earth, sensual negroid rum and molasses, tar, ripening guavas, bananas, tangerines, pineapples in the warm holds of tropical boats, as cheap, as profuse, as abundant as the lazy equatorial earth and all its women;†
Chpt 1

abundant = present in great quantity
Yes, musty cotton, bated and piled under long sheds of railway sidings; and odorous pine woodlands of the level South, saturated with brown faery light, and broken by the tall straight leafless poles of trees; a woman's leg below an elegantly lifted skirt mounting to a carriage in Canal Street (French or Creole probably); a white arm curved reaching for a window shade, French-olive faces window-glimmering, the Georgia doctor's wife who slept above him going out, the unquenchable fish-filled abundance of the unfenced, blue, slow cat-slapping lazy Pacific; and the river, the alldrinking, yellow, slow-surging snake that drained the continent.†
Chpt 1

abundance = large amount or quantity
His life was like that river, rich with its own deposited and onward-borne agglutinations, fecund with its sedimental accretions, filled exhaustlessly by life in order to be more richly itself, and this life, with the great purpose of a river, he emptied now into the harbor of his house, the sufficient haven of himself, for whom the gnarled vines wove round him thrice, the earth burgeoned with abundant fruit and blossom, the fire burnt madly.†
Chpt 1

abundant = present in great quantity
She tried to meet his adoring eyes, but couldn't: a rich wave of rosy red mantled her cheek, he drew her rapturously to him and, for the second time, but this time with the prophecy of eternal and abundant life before them, their lips met in sweet oblivion......Ah, me!†
Chpt 1
But the powerful charm of Gant's house, of its tacked and added whimsy, its male smell, its girdling rich vines, its great gummed trees, its roaring internal seclusiveness, the blistered varnish, the hot calfskin, the comfort and abundance, seduced him easily away from the great chill tomb of Dixieland, particularly in winter, since Eliza was most sparing of coal.†
Chpt 1

abundance = large amount or quantity
Although Gant often cried out bitterly against his business and declared, when he was not attacking property, that he had never made even a bare living from his tombstones, he was rarely short of ready money: he usually had one or two small commissions from country people, and he always carried a well-filled purse, containing $150 or $200 in five— and ten-dollar bills, which he allowed Eugene to count out frequently, enjoying his son's delight, and the feel of abundance.†
Chpt 2
He had straight abundant hair, heavily grayed, which he kept smartly brushed and flattened at the sides.†
Chpt 2

abundant = present in great quantity
Thus, one street would seem to him to be a "good street"—to exist in the rich light of cheerful, abundant, and high-hearted living; another, inexplicably, a "bad street," touching him somehow with fear, hopelessness, depression.†
Chpt 2
He thought of them with excitement and pleasure—he liked the period of hard cramming, the long reviews, the delight of emptying out abundantly on paper his stored knowledge.†
Chpt 2

abundantly = with great quantity
Her hair was coarse and dull-brown, fairly abundant, tinged lightly with gray: it was combed evenly in the middle and bound tightly in a knot behind.†
Chpt 2

abundant = present in great quantity
She was excited and eager—she saw at once how abundantly she could feed this ravenous hunger for knowledge, experience, wisdom.†
Chpt 2

abundantly = with great quantity
In warm weather she perspired abundantly: her waists were stained below the armpits with big spreading blots of sweat; in the winter, as she warmed herself by the fire, she had about her the exciting odor of chalk, and the strong good smell of a healthy animal.†
Chpt 2
Her letters beat like great pulses; they were filled with the excitement of new cities, presentiments of abundant life.†
Chpt 2

abundant = present in great quantity
You've never seen such a table as she keeps in your life—a profusion of fruits piled up in pyramids, stewed prunes, peaches, and preserves, big roasts of pork, beef, lamb, cold cuts of ham and tongue, and a half dozen vegetables in an abundance that beggars description.†
Chpt 2

abundance = large amount or quantity
No one was permitted coffee or tea, but there was an abundance of fresh creamy milk.†
Chpt 2
White-vested, a trifle paunchy, with large broad feet, a shaven moon of red face, and abundant taffy-colored hair, the Reverend John Smallwood, pastor of the First Baptist Church, walked heavily up the street, greeting his parishioners warmly, and hoping to see his Pilot face to face.†
Chpt 2

abundant = present in great quantity
She had black hair, coarse and abundant.†
Chpt 3
The food was abundant, coarse, greasily and badly cooked.†
Chpt 3
Work there was in great abundance—but the princely wages of which he had been told were hard to find.†
Chpt 3

abundance = large amount or quantity
He went to the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, the Naval Base at Norfolk, the Bush Terminal—everywhere there was work, abundant work—hard labor that paid four dollars a day.†
Chpt 3

abundant = present in great quantity

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(1) (abundant)
present in great quantity
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