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Example sentences for "great profusion"

  • In this climate they require the protection of a green-house, and are very striking for the great profusion of their corymbs of pure white or deep yellow flowers.

  • A few species flower well, and have small pink blossoms in great profusion, L.

  • When they are well grown, they flower in great profusion; the colours are brilliant, and through the genus are found of every shade; yellow and white are most prevalent.

  • When the plants are allowed to climb, they do not flower freely; but if closely cut in, they will flower every year in great profusion, after the plants are well established.

  • From the springing of the grass till September, butter is made in great profusion.

  • The gooseberry, strawberry, and blackberry, grow wild and in great profusion.

  • Poultry is raised in great profusion,--and large numbers of fowls taken to market.

  • Bituminous coal exists in great profusion in various parts of the Western Valley.

  • This species is perhaps one of the best known of the New Zealand Lepidoptera, occurring in great profusion in all parts of both North and South Islands.

  • In Nelson I have seen it in great profusion, hovering over various flowers in the evening, at which time it also occasionally endeavours to gain access to beehives.

  • It grows about a yard high, and bears a great profusion of bluish-white flowers, that are rendered very conspicuous by reason of the bright yellow stamens.

  • The flowers are strongly scented, and borne in great profusion late in the season.

  • This is a really handsome and distinct species, with twiggy, deciduous branches, from the undersides of the arching shoots of which the flowers hang in great profusion.

  • The fruit is produced in great profusion, in large bunches, or clusters; but is comparatively of little value, on account of its small size.

  • The leaves, which are put forth in great profusion, are used in the form of Spinach.

  • The Dwarf Sabre is one of the most productive of all varieties; yielding its long, broad pods in great profusion.

  • Grows anywhere, and produces its large white berries in great profusion.

  • The flowers are crowded in the leaf axils in great profusion, but are small and greenish white; the growth of the plant is somewhat straggling and uneven, but it has one merit--viz.

  • Mulberries, apricots, almonds, and cherries were here in great profusion.

  • Orange and lemon trees, and date-palms, are also met with in great profusion.

  • Melons, pumpkins, and gherkins are also found in great profusion.

  • Great quantities of flint chips are found on the rocks near by, and many arrowheads, some perfect, others broken; and fragments of pottery are strewn about in great profusion.

  • In the ruins of these cliff houses mortars and pestles are found in great profusion, and when first discovered many articles of pottery were found, and still many potsherds are seen.

  • Arrowheads are scattered about, many of them very beautiful; flint chips are strewn over the ground in great profusion, and the trails are well worn.

  • Around it, besides a great profusion of broken marbles, are the shafts of fourteen columns, once perhaps a colonnade, but now arranged in the square wall of mud which surrounds the whole remains.

  • On the right are the ruins of the ancient city of Rey, scattered in great profusion at the foot of the nearer mountains.

  • The tent itself rested on three poles; its sides were of open worked chintz, and its floor was strewed with carpets; on which were laid out fruits and sweetmeats in great profusion.

  • It is sometimes found used in great profusion in doorways, windows, and other ornamental details; but many churches of this style are entirely devoid of this ornament.

  • It is also common to find the tendrils, leaves, and fruit of the vine carved or sculptured in great profusion in the hollow of rich cornice mouldings, especially on screen-work in the interior of a church.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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