Use "profusion" in a sentence

1. It can seldom happen, indeed, that the circumstances of a great nation can be much affected either by the prodigality or misconduct of individuals; the profusion or imprudence of some being always more than compensated by the frugality and good conduct of others

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2. In each of those periods, however, there was not only much private and public profusion, many expensive and unnecessary wars, great perversion of the annual produce from maintaining productive to maintain unproductive hands; but sometimes, in the confusion of civil discord, such absolute waste and destruction of stock, as might be supposed, not only to retard, as it certainly did, the natural accumulation of riches, but to have left the country, at the end of the period, poorer than at the beginning

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3. But though the profusion of government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England towards wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it

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4. No trace or vestige of the expense of the latter would remain, and the effects of ten or twenty years' profusion would be as completely annihilated as if they had never existed

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5. To reduce very much the number of his servants, to reform his table from great profusion to great frugality, to lay down his equipage after he has once set it up, are changes which cannot escape the observation of his neighbours, and which are supposed to imply some acknowledgment of preceding bad conduct

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6. No accumulation could have supported so great an annual profusion

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7. It is said, accordingly, to be very considerable, and that you frequently find there a profusion of plate in houses, where there is nothing else which would in other countries be thought suitable or correspondent to this sort of magnificence

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8. She realized in some measure the extravagant hopes of her votaries; and in the discovery and conquest of Mexico and Peru (of which the one happened about thirty, and the other about forty, years after the first expedition of Columbus), she presented them with something not very unlike that profusion of the precious metals which they sought for

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9. The profits of it only are spent in Spain and Portugal, where they help to support the sumptuous profusion of the merchants of Cadiz and Lisbon

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10. But in the system of laws which has been established for the management of our American and West Indian colonies, the interest of the home consumer has been sacrificed to that of the producer, with a more extravagant profusion than in all our other commercial regulations

11. Such nations are always strangers to every sort of luxury, and great wealth can scarce ever be dissipated among them by improvident profusion

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12. Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company

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13. It was naturally to be expected, therefore, that folly, negligence, and profusion, should prevail in the whole management of their affairs

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14. Their ill success was imputed, by their factors and agents, to the extortion and oppression of the Spanish government ; but was, perhaps, principally owing to the profusion and depredations of those very factors and agents; some of whom are said to have acquired great fortunes, even in one year

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15. But the loss occasioned by the negligence, profusion, and malversation of the servants of the company, had probably been a tax much heavier than all those duties

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16. Their capital, which never exceeded £744,000, and of which £50 was a share, was not so exorbitant, nor their dealings so extensive, as to afford either a pretext for gross negligence and profusion, or a cover to gross malversation

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17. The great increase of their fortune had, it seems, only served to furnish their servants with a pretext for greater profusion, and a cover for greater malversation, than in proportion even to that increase of fortune

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18. It is merely to enable the company to support the negligence, profusion, and malversation of their own servants, whose disorderly conduct seldom allows the dividend of the company to exceed the ordinary rate of profit in trades which are altogether free, and very frequently makes a fall even a good deal short of that rate

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19. But whether such a government us that of England, which, whatever may be its virtues, has never been famous for good economy; which, in time of peace, has generally conducted itself with the slothful and negligent profusion that is,

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20. The profusion with which the affairs of princes are always managed, renders it almost impossible that they should

21. Those agents frequently live with the profusion of princes ; and sometimes, too, in spite of that profusion, and by a proper method of making up their accounts, acquire the fortunes of princes

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22. The hills were a profusion of snowy dogwood and pink plum and cherry blossoms

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23. The descent into Phuket airport in the daytime is spectacular; suddenly below the clouds a profusion of tiny tropical islands appear, bursting with life in their photosynthetic quest, as though erupting from the sparkling waters of the Andaman Sea

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24. Rivers running free cut through the profusion of wild vegetation that gorges itself on an abundance of nature’s tears

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25. On the occasional mature plants, there was a huge towering column usually well over twenty feet high containing hundreds of spikes covered with a profusion of white trumpet-shaped flowers

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26. A result is that new “rights” are invented in profusion to favor the deviant, the unproductive, the anti-social, the subversive, and the criminal

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27. It seemed impenetrable, yet a more careful look revealed a dense profusion of wildlife moving through it; from squirrels to deer to great bison, from weasels to wolves to immense bears

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28. Meanwhile, whiskey bottles and beer cans in profusion joined the wine bottles littering the tables

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29. What bighead I felt, then! And what bighead I feel now! Americus and Leonardo! The guards and Batam-Al-Bur! Heap of friends ready to fight until the end against the dark forces in order to gain me the salvation! I wished God could provide me the right to correspond in opportune occasion for the profusion of such affections

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30. ” Then she opened the door fully, allowing a view of an entrance area where there was a profusion of shoes on the floor and coats and jackets hung on coat hooks on the wall

31. road among a profusion of two story apartment buildings

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32. She was large and short, about sixty, with a profusion of gray hair and a young voice

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33. Soon, propelled by his admiration for his son's persona, Gautam took Suresh into his arms, but finding his eyes welled up with tears still, he stroked his lad's head for mutual solace and as if to celebrate their reunion in unison, he too began shedding tears of joy in profusion

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34. Reeling up, blood streaming down his face from under his dented helmet, Conan glared dizzily at the profusion of destruction which spread before him

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35. Last, a strange little man with a foppish air did my hair, brushed it up high and smiled happily at the profusion of curls

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36. The appreciation they held for each other, gave most people the impression they would stay here amid the profusion of pink and red roses overlooking the bay at Port Hardy forever

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37. The profusion and meticulous vagueness of the information seemed to Aureliano Segundo so similar to the tales of spiritualists that he kept on with his enterprise in spite of the fact that they were in August and they would have to wait at least three years in order to satisfy the conditions of the prediction

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38. to the profusion of misleading information that we’re awash within

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39. rather than the profusion of ego based sub-personalities which

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40. In the profusion of talent available, I barely got a knock

41. elephant, rhino, buffalo and leopard are found in this profusion in no oth-

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42. As those poignant memories seemingly impinged upon his heart, his eyes began to swell with tears in profusion

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43. the profusion of proof

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44. Profusion is manifested in everything

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45. It seemed so strange for anyone to die in June; so strange to be lifeless in the midst of the wanton profusion of life, to grow cold in that quivering radiance of heat

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46. There they are, all over the mountain fields, flowering in greater profusion the further the month moves towards winter

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47. The fields geese feed in are so specially charming, so green and low-lying, with little clumps of trees and bushes, and a pond or boggy bit of ground somewhere near, and a profusion of those delicate field flowers that look so lovely growing and are so unsatisfactory and fade so quickly if you try to arrange them in your rooms

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48. For the lack of suitable depositories for the products of autopsies, these objects were plainly visible in rude profusion when a door was opened to draw out a body for inspection

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49. About and around the slabs whereon the human bodies lay, in bottles and in plates, this material which had no place except in the cabinets of a laboratory was inhumanly displayed in profusion, close to corpses for which a morgue is expected to provide some degree of reverential care

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50. One is in front of the impressive turreted Islamic mosque and adjacent to Kowloon Park with its profusion of trees and dusty open space

51. breathtaking profusion of trees around the road, with probably all the species of flora

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52. The soil is low in nutrients because of the profusion of pine-needles: if a forest doesn't have leaves to shed then fresh nutrients will not return to the earth

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53. Creating an abundance of life and a profusion of food

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54. The wide front porch hadn't been swept, and was littered with dried leaves from a profusion of hanging plants and potted ferns

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55. the window at the profusion of flowers heralding

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56. This is shown by the profusion of spirals

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57. Likewise, the profusion of lies, false doctrine, delusion, and ignorance within the collective thoughts of humanity hinders the ability to think

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58. observation is the profusion of immeasurably small “strings,” which vibrate at a wide range of

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59. He looked out over the profusion of flowers in the garden in search of Zarsha

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60. She ran to him with the grace of a young deer through the wild profusion of blooms, scattering butterflies to the wind, as she came bounding up to him

61. The buttons of this were hanging on for dear life, going far beyond the call of duty, and the material, moulded to the flesh as it strained to contain the trembling rolls of jelly, was stretched to tear-point and was decorated with an overlapping profusion of stains: huge patches of reeking sweat, shiny slides of grease and discrete blobs of some nameless matter, dried and cracked like desert mud

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62. His chosen hiding place was in the entrance of a gravelled driveway which curved expansively around the front of a neo-Tudor mansion: a jigsaw puzzle of herringbone brickwork, black timbers and white painted plaster, with a profusion of intricately bricked chimneys that towered into the sky like aerial monuments

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63. the darkness on the outside of the house in which the guests were; which must appear more abundantly gloomy, when compared with the profusion of light within the guest-chamber

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64. away in the profusion of mirth and music

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65. The one element of truth which was essential to their development has been present in small quantities even amidst the profusion of indigestible diet that accompanied it

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66. The plant produces a profusion of yellow flowers that are edible and eaten as fritters

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67. Jarvis, could one read them year in, year out--the unpublished works of women, written by the fireside in pale profusion, dried by the flame, for the blotting-paper's worn to holes and the nib cleft and clotted

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68. The pearls were in profusion and very fine, for the highest display and adornment of the Moorish women is decking themselves with rich pearls and seed-pearls; and of these there are therefore more among the Moors than among any other people

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69. Here Meg meant to have a fountain, shrubbery, and a profusion of lovely flowers, though just at present the fountain was represented by a weather-beaten urn, very like a dilapidated slop-bowl, the shrubbery consisted of several young larches, undecided whether to live or die, and the profusion of flowers was merely hinted by regiments of sticks to show where seeds were planted

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70. And now gay-plumaged birds of all sorts began to warble in the trees, and with their varied and gladsome notes seemed to welcome and salute the fresh morn that was beginning to show the beauty of her countenance at the gates and balconies of the east, shaking from her locks a profusion of liquid pearls; in which dulcet moisture bathed, the plants, too, seemed to shed and shower down a pearly spray, the willows distilled sweet manna, the fountains laughed, the brooks babbled, the woods rejoiced, and the meadows arrayed themselves in all their glory at her coming

71. length, which he covered with a profusion of kisses, sparing no part of

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72. covered all those naked parts with a fond profusion of kisses; and now,

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73. Then we crossed a prairie of algae, open–sea plants that the waters hadn't yet torn loose, whose vegetation grew in wild profusion

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74. There were mimosas, banyan trees, beefwood, teakwood, hibiscus, screw pines, palm trees, all mingling in wild profusion; and beneath the shade of their green canopies, at the feet of their gigantic trunks, there grew orchids, leguminous plants, and ferns

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75. Having nothing better to do, I decided to dredge these beautiful, clear waters, which exhibited a profusion of shells, zoophytes, and open–sea plants

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76. Divan, walls, ceiling, floor, were all covered with magnificent skins as soft and downy as the richest carpets; there were heavymaned lion-skins from Atlas, striped tiger-skins from Bengal; panther-skins from the Cape, spotted beautifully, like those that appeared to Dante; bear-skins from Siberia, fox-skins from Norway, and so on; and all these skins were strewn in profusion one on the other, so that it seemed like walking over the most mossy turf, or reclining on the most luxurious bed

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77. Rich plumes nodded above his head; wampum, gorgets, bracelets, and medals, adorned his person in profusion; though his dull eye and vacant lineaments too strongly contradicted the idle tale of pride they would convey

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78. "Is that she, mamma?" asked Eugenie; "almost opposite to us, with that profusion of

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79. She had cut it that very morning on account of the new moon and it nestled about her pretty head in a profusion of luxuriant clusters and pared her nails too, Thursday for wealth

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80. He wore a profusion of ribbons on his garment, and gold-lace on his hat, which was also encircled by a gold chain, and surmounted with a feather

81. The place was not decorated extravagantly, like Philemon’ s palace in Kingsbridge, where the profusion of rugs and jewels suggested a robber’ s cave

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82. Sheep-marks there were in profusion, and at one place, some miles down, cows had left their tracks

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83. Then, springing eagerly towards me, he covered all those naked parts with a fond profusion of kisses; and now, taking hold of the rod, rather wantoned with me, in gentle inflictions on those tender trembling masses of my flesh behind, than in any way hurt them, till by degrees, he began to tingle them with smarter lashes, so as to provoke a red colour into them, which I knew, as well by the flagrant glow I felt there, as by his telling me, they now emulated the native roses of my other cheeks

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84. You mustn't forget that he does not exercise his extraordinary power over the lower classes without a certain amount of personal risk and without a great profusion in spending his money

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85. At the top he paused, broad shouldered, narrow hipped and supple, looking at the large bed, like a white couch of state, with a profusion of snowy linen, amongst which the Padrona sat unpropped and bowed, her handsome, black-browed face bent over her chest

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86. Alone, I should have been ignorant of the names of these giant growths, but our men of science pointed out the cedars, the great silk cotton trees, and the redwood trees, with all that profusion of various plants which has made this continent the chief supplier to the human race of those gifts of Nature which depend upon the vegetable world, while it is the most backward in those products which come from animal life

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87. In the jungle which we traversed were numerous hard-trodden paths made by the wild beasts, and in the more marshy places we saw a profusion of strange footmarks, including many of the iguanodon

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88. She appeared seldom in the book; she was older than the eldest of them by nine years and had married and left home while they were schoolboys; between her and them stood two other sisters; after the birth of the third daughter there had been pilgrimages and pious benedictions in request for a son, for theirs was a wide property and an ancient name; male heirs had come late and, when they came, in a profusion which at the time seemed to promise continuity to the line which, in the tragic event, ended abruptly with them

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89. She went stealthily as a cat through this profusion of growth, gathering cuckoo-spittle on her skirts, cracking snails that

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90. "He" of course was their uncle in Harley Street; and we lived in much profusion of theory that he might at any moment arrive to mingle in our circle

91. In the Kennels which ran down the mucky Centres of the Streets, one saw Fish Heads, Orange Rinds, Human Wastes—e’en dead Cats! The Air above was as smoky here as it had been fresh and clear upon the River; and one hardly dar’d look up o’erhead at the Profusion of creaking Sign Boards, hung upon ornamental iron Brackets, which sway’d in the Wind like hang’d Men, and obstructed whate’er Light and Air there might be, especially upon the narrowest Streets

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92. How long had it been since I left Lymeworth? The Profusion of Events had been so num’rous and perplexing that ’twas very hard to recall the Dates

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