Churches became more profuse in decoration, better lit and more lavish in their proportions. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
'How thoroughly am I converted to the love of Jean Paul, and wonder at the indolence or shallowness which could resist so long, and call his profuse riches want of system!. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I] Reference
32 The greater part of the nobles, who dissipated their fortunes in profuse luxury, found themselves poor in the midst of wealth, and idle in a constant round of dissipation. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Here they may produce an inflammation of the lining of the womb, causing severe pain and other symptoms, such as profuse discharge. From Wordnik.com. [Herself Talks with Women Concerning Themselves] Reference
A very profuse cold sweat that saturated her clothing and bed. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
The dining tables were profuse with solid silver table-service. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
Mary turned, and overwhelmed the astonished Arthur with her profuse thanks. From Wordnik.com. [Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma] Reference
Occasionally an old varicose vein may break open and give rise to profuse bleeding. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
They include a racing heart, trembling limbs, rapid breathing and profuse sweating. From Wordnik.com. [DROWNING ON DRY LAND] Reference
He was thickly covered with dust and profuse perspiration made his dark skin glisten. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
L45 a year, and his friends were profuse in their congratulations on his good fortune. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
The profuse variety of little critters now living in the tank's gravel ate it instead. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Their childhood was a cycle of cuts and bruises, then profuse bleeding, then transfusions. From Wordnik.com. [An American Tragedy In Iowa] Reference
The earth teems with beautiful and profuse vegetation -- for the most part in a wild state. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
She greeted them gratefully and was profuse in her thanks for all the care they had shown her. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves] Reference
The profuse and elaborate sculpture with which their temples are covered, does not mar their majesty. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Outdoor Girls and their four boy friends, but tonight the profuse beauty all about them passed unnoticed. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys] Reference
Obligingly, charmingly, Mademoiselle Annette responded to our profuse, overwhelming invitations to play first. From Wordnik.com. [The Greater Love] Reference
Production of the basics had become so profuse that poverty in the old sense of the word had become nonsensical. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenary] Reference
In the place of pay, they are supplied with a daily table and repasts; though grossly prepared, yet very profuse. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus on Germany] Reference
This disease is nearly confined to men, but the women in the same families often suffer from profuse menstruation. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
Vegetation was not profuse nor brilliant, but to my long famished eyes, its dingy hue was delightfully refreshing. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
If so, the following menstruation may be delayed for a week or so and is then a little more profuse than is customary. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
If you're not sandwiched between a guy with a profuse sweating problem and a screaming baby, strike up a conversation!. From Wordnik.com. [Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: Five Places to Meet Girls.] Reference
He had fallen into a deep sleep, his body was wet with profuse perspiration, and the swelling of the limb had greatly decreased. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference
He was affable and agreeable without that exaggeration of either quality which spends itself in profuse laudation of social comets. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
During his imprisonment by order of the National Guard, she sent him flowers, for which he was very profuse in expressing his thanks. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
Sometimes the eruption takes place with a profuse warm sweat, which prognosticates a mild course and a favorable issue of the disorder. From Wordnik.com. [Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms] Reference
He eyed her with interest, bowed affably when presented to her by the professor, and expressed somewhat profuse pleasure at meeting her. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
These bursts of soaring internal temperature can cause profuse sweating and frequently strike during the night, contributing to insomnia. From Wordnik.com. [Every Woman For Herself] Reference
The pulse is accelerated some 6 to 12 beats a minute, the respiration number rises, and the patient is thrown into a profuse perspiration. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The resulting hybrids make handsome trees of rapid growth and bear profuse crops of very attractive nuts, but are greatly injured by blight. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920] Reference
I have visited many of the hospitals, both on the field and those located in cities where every convenience obtainable for money was profuse. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
Colonel was profuse in his gratitude for the most unexpectedly generous treatment he himself and his fellow-prisoners had received at their hands. From Wordnik.com. [Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics] Reference
American women, especially, are profuse and lavish of money in dress, in equipage, in furniture, in houses, in entertainments, in every particular of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
And then, the profuse supper having been discussed with that honorable devotion which ever characterizes Virginians, the dancing recommenced, more madly than ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
The sleep seems to be irregular and unrefreshing -- restlessness during the early part of the night, and in the advanced stages of the disease, profuse sweats before morning. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
The veins fretted through his temples with frightful distinction; his forehead was moist with a profuse perspiration; his breath labored with intermittent entrance and egress. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
The petitioner was profuse in his acknowledgments, expatiated on the benefit of riches, when entrusted in such hands, and retired invoking a thousand blessings on his benefactor. From Wordnik.com. [The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale] Reference
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