A woman with as much colour would have been accused of painting; in him it gave to some people the idea of superabundant health, to others it suggested a phthisical tendency. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Ore was plentiful, wood was superabundant, methods were crude. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Steel and Electricity] Reference
Then it rapidly fell in price, owing to the superabundant supply. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
With his superabundant physical, mental, and emotional energy, he was. From Wordnik.com. [Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction] Reference
In the manner of a rhetorician he sometimes gives superabundant details. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
If it has a superabundant supply of labor, it must be rendered available. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
An unsatisfied or superabundant sociability lies back of our love of fiction. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
And here again the same quality of superabundant vitality is equally prominent. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
The machinery of it cannot dispose, as heretofore, of the superabundant material. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
Then there is superabundant proof of the relish with which men enjoyed, in the Middle. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
But he had another and more inexhaustible resource for his superabundant irritability. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Water Works in the next fifty years will fail to yield a superabundant supply of water. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
Oh, if she had been alone, how she would have flown at Glass-Eye, to work off her superabundant joy!. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
The gradations by which the frugal tea passes into the superabundant supper are not easily classified. From Wordnik.com. [Etiquette] Reference
It was as varied, superabundant, and many-coloured as the other was grand, monotonous, and melancholy. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
She had carried into middle life her superabundant energy -- her love of being in the eye of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
Its superabundant energy seemed to create demands in order that it might expend itself in satisfying them. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873] Reference
Such unreserve, unfortunately, has too commonly been the transgression of writers of superabundant energy. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
General Harrison, these traits are somewhat softened by a superabundant vitality, but the traits are all there. From Wordnik.com. [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference
When this is the case, it deposits some of its superabundant moisture in the form known in rural districts -- as my Hon. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 14, 1891] Reference
Yet there is no store of vitality, no buoyancy, no superabundant vigor, to resist the strain and pressure to which life puts him. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of War] Reference
At the thought of her own humdrum existence Eleanor laughs again with a return of that superabundant vitality which is hers by nature. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
Joe attempted to escape, but, getting his feet entangled in the superabundant coat-skirts, fell, screaming as if he were about to be killed. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
The greatest treasure she has to draw from for that purpose is the more than abundant merits of Our Lord and the superabundant satisfaction of the. From Wordnik.com. [Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine] Reference
Let us even allow that the prodigality of certain rich men is a safety-valve for the escape of the superabundant: we shall not attempt to gainsay it. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
The superabundant powder is then removed by washing and the article is beautifully gilded with a heavy or light coat, according to the quantity of paste used. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
The father, swept to one side by the surges of his superabundant family, sat on a chair at the extreme corner of the hearthrug, with both the twins upon his knees. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
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