All 15 Uses of
abundant
in
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- So, until information becomes more abundant, I plump for a sea unicorn of colossal dimensions, no longer armed with a mere lance but with an actual spur, like ironclad frigates or those warships called 'rams,' whose mass and motor power it would possess simultaneously.†
Chpt 1abundant = present in great quantity
- Written in every language, books on science, ethics, and literature were there in abundance, but I didn't see a single work on economics—they seemed to be strictly banned on board.†
Chpt 1abundance = large amount or quantity
- It's the most tranquil of the seas; its currents are wide and slow-moving, its tides moderate, its rainfall abundant.†
Chpt 1abundant = present in great quantity
- I informed him that they were made from the smooth, silken filaments with which the fan mussel, a type of seashell quite abundant along Mediterranean beaches, attaches itself to rocks.†
Chpt 1
- But after all, as Conseil noted, we enjoyed complete freedom, we were daintily and abundantly fed.†
Chpt 1 *abundantly = with great quantity
- But I repeat: having no gunpowder, I've replaced it with air at high pressure, which is abundantly supplied me by the Nautilus's pumps.†
Chpt 1
- The surface of the water was crisscrossed by a floating arbor of marine plants belonging to that superabundant algae family that numbers more than 2,000 known species.†
Chpt 1
- Here the range of underwater flora seemed pretty comprehensive to me, as well as more abundant than it might have been in the arctic or tropical zones, where such exhibits are less common.†
Chpt 1abundant = present in great quantity
- More intense than on land, more abundant, more infinite, such life blooms in every part of this ocean, an element fatal to man, they say, but vital to myriads of animals—and to me!†
Chpt 1
- I mean the breadfruit tree, which is quite abundant on Gueboroa Island, and there I chiefly noted the seedless variety that in Malaysia is called "rima."†
Chpt 1
- shells exclusive to the Mediterranean, abalone whose shell produces a mother-of-pearl much in demand, pilgrim scallops, saddle shells that diners in the French province of Languedoc are said to like better than oysters, some of those cockleshells so dear to the citizens of Marseilles, fat white venus shells that are among the clams so abundant off the coasts of North America and eaten in such quantities by New Yorkers, variously colored comb shells with gill covers, burrowing date mussels with a peppery flavor I relish, furrowed heart cockles whose shells have riblike ridges on their arching summits, triton shells pocked with scarlet bumps, carniaira snails with backward-curving tip†
Chpt 2
- Air tanks, abundantly charged, were placed on our backs, but the electric lamps were not in readiness.†
Chpt 2abundantly = with great quantity
- But it was in the air that life was superabundant.†
Chpt 2
- No mammal except man has more abundant cerebral matter.†
Chpt 2abundant = present in great quantity
- Their hides were rough and heavy, a tan color leaning toward a reddish brown; their coats were short and less than abundant.†
Chpt 2