The profuseness of the illuminations outdid the brightness of the meridian sun.

Shakespeare has been sometimes taxed with the barbarism of profuseness and exaggeration.

The profuseness of quotation in Polycarp's Epistle arises from a want of originality.

He did not invariably scorn or even resent a certain profuseness of expenditure.

Another distinguishing feature is the profuseness of cotton embroidery on the front of the garment.

No fashion, no vanity, no profuseness, and yet no niggardliness, but is found among professors.

His profuseness may bribe the unthinking multitude to show him respect; but he must know that, though

I have little doubt our songsters excel in melody, while the European birds excel in profuseness and volubility.

Vitel'lius soon gave himself up to all kinds of luxury and profuseness; but gluttony was his favourite vice.

A successful, because a persevering and intelligent hunter, he was liberal to profuseness in the distribution of the spoils.

Shouting cabmen and police officers tried to rival the white blizzard in profuseness, but they did not hear them.

But whatever the pomp of machinery or profuseness of description could contribute to its decoration has not been spared.

Nay even those law-givers that chiefly opposed luxury and profuseness have particularly confined marriage feasts to a set number.

The profuseness of his expenditure was very offensive to the and injurious to the existing state of the public means.

Thus nature has made up for the deficiency of one tribe of animals by the profuseness with which she has distributed another.

There it falls in full profuseness, reaching to the hips, and in the case of some mingling with the tails, of their horses.