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1. He handed over the car keys to profuse thanks from Oliver
2. It wasn’t just because he was too profuse in telling her how good they were
3. It consists in those useful plants and animals, which, in uncultivated countries, nature produces with such profuse abundance, that they are of little or no value, and which, as cultivation advances, are therefore forced to give place to some more profitable produce
4. A man of fortune, for example, may either spend his revenue in a profuse and sumptuous table, and in maintaining a great number of menial servants, and a multitude of dogs and horses; or, contenting himself with a frugal table, and few attendants, he may lay out the greater part of it in adorning his house or his country villa, in useful or ornamental buildings, in useful or ornamental furniture, in collecting books, statues, pictures ; or in things more frivolous, jewels, baubles, ingenious trinkets of different kinds; or, what is most trifling of all, in amassing a great wardrobe of fine clothes, like the favourite and minister of a great prince who died a few years ago
5. The expense, besides, that is laid out in durable commodities, gives maintenance, commonly, to a greater number of people than that which is employed in the most profuse hospitality
6. A frugal man, or a man eager to be rich, is said to love money ; and a careless, a generous, or a profuse man, is said to be indifferent about it
7. Nobody affects the character of liberality and good fellowship, by being profuse of a liquor which is as cheap as small beer
8. The clergy could derive advantage from this immense surplus in no other way than by employing it, as the great barons employed the like surplus of their revenues, in the most profuse hospitality, and in the most extensive charity
9. Their charity became gradually less extensive, their hospitality less liberal, or less profuse
10. As every man's humour regulates the degree of his consumption, every man contributes rather according to his humour, than proportion to his revenue: the profuse contribute more, the parsimonious less, than their proper proportion
11. It occasions a general and most pernicious subversion of the fortunes of private people; enriching, in most cases, the idle and profuse debtor, at the expense of the industrious and frugal creditor ; and transporting a great part of the national capital from the hands which were likely to increase and improve it, to those who are likely to dissipate and destroy it
12. The heroic sailors received a profuse welcome from the army as they crossed the lines, and at night they were all back on the flagship
13. He believed he could intervene, somehow mediate, so that balance could be restored and things would not deteriorate into profuse madness at the speed of a rushing waterfall, as it seemed it definitely would
14. “botillo” (Roger thinks that she did it only to please him), and poor Héctor was overcome with profuse perspiration, just seeing them both sweating…
15. Of course I grieve for the accidental deaths of war, but the pain is more acute and the tears more profuse when thousands of innocents close to us are targets of international mortal attacks
16. Now, the floors were all plush and shiny granites, clubhouse and tennis courts added, profuse greenery as lawns and creepers on well-laid walls, and shrubs and plants trimmed as landscaped gardens
17. Celia cut short Lorna’s profuse thanks and told her that Rick would be in contact with her on Wednesday, two weeks later, to make final arrangements
18. Profuse cues are registered early on that food is a source of comfort and reward
19. The tall Khitan lifted his head and gazed at Publio, so that the merchant broke into a profuse sweat
20. Everything was intermingled and profuse, in amounts that one family might use
21. Dave told her about his horrifying adventure, followed by her profuse apology for leaving him alone
22. Siri was given his gun back with profuse apologies, and the two young men insisted that they could guide them to where Siri’s people would be
23. She came running up to him to the laboratory with profuse tears in her eyes
24. Mei Li ran back to the house to get the ancient Chinese medicine which was a hemostatic, something that would stop the profuse bleeding
25. She had developed a severe cough and was in and out of consciousness, her body vacillating between freezing and quivering, and profuse bouts of sweating
26. too started to profuse with her sweet sweat as well
27. The bleeding coming from her shoulder was profuse, but she knew it was not a lethal wound
28. She was, I gathered, ample over Siegfried, but when it came to Juchs she was profuse
29. • In certain cases, profuse salivary flow and “frothing” can affect the quality of
30. I have to send profuse apologies to my hero Jeremy Clarkson, but I just couldn't help this one
31. We were just about to go to the office of the local representative, when the inefficient woman suddenly found it, and with profuse apologies, handed it over to me
32. The growth here is as profuse as it is in the Amazon Basin, only here on Arton
33. I gave Salah two thousand rials and received profuse blessings
34. the profuse detail of his explanations, and more often than, I understood him
35. adorned with the profuse colour schemes of blooming shrubs, flowerbeds and creepers
36. exaltations of the psychic functions resulting in loud and profuse speech, and vivacious acts,
37. This being accomplished, he felt anxious to make trial himself, on the spot, of the virtue of this precious balsam, as he considered it, and so he drank near a quart of what could not be put into the flask and remained in the pigskin in which it had been boiled; but scarcely had he done drinking when he began to vomit in such a way that nothing was left in his stomach, and with the pangs and spasms of vomiting he broke into a profuse sweat, on account of which he bade them cover him up and leave him alone
38. Whether we gain or not by this habit of profuse communication it is not for us to say
39. There are very few good books after all, for we can't count profuse histories, travels in mule carts to discover the sources of the Nile, or the volubility of fiction
40. Lothario, terrified and breathless, ran in haste to pluck out the dagger; but when he saw how slight the wound was he was relieved of his fears and once more admired the subtlety, coolness, and ready wit of the fair Camilla; and the better to support the part he had to play he began to utter profuse and doleful lamentations over her body as if she were dead, invoking maledictions not only on himself but also on him who had been the means of placing him in such a position: and knowing that his friend Anselmo heard him he spoke in such a way as to make a listener feel much more pity for him than for Camilla, even though he supposed her dead
41. On her back she carried a bundle of rushes for rush-bottoming chairs, Her hair, straight, shiny, coarse, black, profuse, half-envelop'd
42. This tendency of his to be liberal and profuse he had acquired from having been a soldier in his youth, for the soldier's life is a school in which the niggard becomes free-handed and the free-handed prodigal; and if any soldiers are to be found who are misers, they are monsters of rare occurrence
43. The aspiring lilac bushes with profuse purple or white flowers
44. Give me something to wipe myself with, if thou hast it, for this profuse sweat is blinding me
45. Don Quixote dressed himself, put on his baldric with his sword, threw the scarlet mantle over his shoulders, placed on his head a montera of green satin that the damsels had given him, and thus arrayed passed out into the large room, where he found the damsels drawn up in double file, the same number on each side, all with the appliances for washing the hands, which they presented to him with profuse obeisances and ceremonies
46. Then, to conceal his disappointment, he was profuse in apologies and proffers of service, all of which Emma declined; then she remained a few moments fingering in the pocket of her apron the two five-franc pieces that he had given her in change
47. He felt himself all over and held his breath to try whether he was quite sound or had a hole made in him anywhere, and finding himself all right and whole and in perfect health he was profuse in his thanks to God our Lord for the mercy that had been shown him, for he made sure he had been broken into a thousand pieces
48. Profuse and hearty were the expressions of gratitude with which the captains thanked Roque for his courtesy and generosity; for such they regarded his leaving them their own money
49. in a profuse shower of tears
50. luxury; now too it was, by means of a profuse illumination, enlivened by