The profusion of the growth is in fact equaled only by its accessibility, the whole country being so permeated by streams that it can be floated off with very little trouble.
The profusion with which the finny tribes propagate their species is a peculiarity said to be imparted to those who partake freely and regularly of them for food, a supposition which would seem to be strongly supported by facts.
She was bending over the head of a young girl with a profusion of fair hair down upon her shoulders, and she forgot.
By this ceremony the Christian is confirmed in the faith, and receives invisibly a profusion of graces from the Most High.
It is, however, in places that remained subject to the Roman pontiff, that the clergy have wallowed in the greatest profusion of riches and power.
They are paid with profusion for useless prayers which they make with negligence.
On the under side the wings are gray or pale wood-brown, with greenish-blue at their base and a profusion of small black spots margined with white.
With a profusion of compliments and hopes for my bon voyage, the commisaaire graciously bowed me out, and with all haste I sought the Hotel d'Hollande.
A) Produces a profusionof rose-purple pea-like flowers before the leaves appear; foliage also attractive.
Small undershrubs, producing bright yellow flowers in profusion in July and August; 2-4 ft.
It grows three feet tall, and bears a profusion of fine flowers in heavy trusses in mid-summer to fall.
A large and very showy shrub, producing a profusion of apple-like white flowers in early spring; 6-12 ft; allied to the spireas.
The ease of culture, great variety of kinds, profusion of bloom or richness of foliage, together with their adaptability to shade, make them very desirable.
Excepting the petunia, no plant will give the profusion of bloom with as little care as the annual phlox (Phlox Drummondii).
This protection may also be given to established plants, particularly to those which, like roses and herbaceous plants, are expected to give a profusion of bloom the following year.
The great profusion of bristles and spines gives it an individual and strong character.
A medium-sized tree of good character, producing a profusion of golden-yellow flowers in July; should be better known.
Never have I seen elsewhere such profusion and perfection of flowers.
Miss Dexter was very fair, with a profusion of light yellow hair, and suited in all respects the incoherent description that fell from the sick woman's lips.
They eke out lack of sincerity by profusion of commonplace.
Both the exterior and interior are studded over with a profusion of minute and singular ornaments of the most varied description.
They received us in a large, well furnished ante-room; a table was soon covered with a profusion of fruit, the most delicate sweetmeats, and a variety of cakes and jellies.
In proceeding to the governor's country-house, we were much delighted with the great profusion of vegetable productions that was every where observable.
After some time, boxes containing betel and tobacco sprouts were offered; and afterwards sweetmeats in profusion were introduced.
They are disposed with unsparing profusion on the altar, of all sizes, from one inch to thirty feet in height.
Profusion and indulgence claim a share of the produce of his toils.
A profusion of gilding, bits of looking glass, China basins of various colours, stuck into the plaster, are amongst the most common materials.
He is not one of your California boys, but more affable and domestic, with a shorter beard, and not so great a profusion of weapons.
Flagstaffs and banners abound in the greatest profusion in every village.
Tis they that be the sons of Aklis who sharpen the Sword of Events; yet live they in jollity, skimming from the profusion of abundance that which floateth!
Among my earliest recollections of Mr. Beecher's preaching was the profusion of his illustrations from nature.
The smoothly cut lawn around us was like a velvet carpet, with a profusion of surrounding flowers.
Seeing the great profusion of cheap corn and rye, Anderson, who was a good judge of whisky, engaged the General in a distillery, which stood near the grist mill.
As he spoke the door opened, and a couple of old and rather snaky-looking Hindus, folded up in a profusion of cloths, rather than garments, entered the apartment.
His lordship gave the chief juggler a handful of silver, and they left the hotel with a profusion of salaams; for they did not often make in a month what they got for an hour, the Hindu gentleman said.
The train moved off, with handkerchiefs waving at every window, and with a profusion of gestures on the part of the magnificent host.
Though the building is plain, as a whole, Captain Carlisle pointed out a highly ornamental window, with a profusion of handsome brackets.
The profusion in which they occasionally abound renders it often a simple matter to obtain a bushel of them in a few minutes.
This mushroom is held in great esteem, and frequently grows in such profusion that bushels may be gathered in a small area.
It loves to display its exquisite leafage on the rocks bordering the "sea-marge," and is found in profusion along almost the entire littoral of the Mediterranean.
In the Glarus Alps the odorous crimson tufts of the Kammblume are discovered in a profusion which rejoices and astonishes the traveller.
Their surfaces generally are covered with rocks of this description, or flinty fragments strewed in profusion upon them.
Knobs and drifts of sand, driven from the bed of the river by the violence of the wind, are piled in profusion along the margin of the river throughout the greater part of its length.
Whether any course of this kind operates to supply the unusual profusion of water with which this hilly tract is irrigated, must be for others to decide.
But the effect, as a whole, is marred by a profusion of almost all the worst faults of the drama of the whole period from Peele to Davenant.
Her ladyship's ear-rings were the largest diamonds at the fête, to which there was a corresponding necklace, and a profusionof diamond ornaments.
Spontaneously she begins the work of restoration, and as if by magic the scar is covered with as rich and riotous a profusion of vegetation as ever.
The utensil lies there at the entrance where he left it; the plants grow in profusion close by among the rocks; but of the artist there is no record, save the crude and grotesque figures in fading red on the grey granite.
As he uncovered his head, his clear-cut profile crowned with a profusionof light brown curls, such as ladies love to toy with, shone white and clear against the dark blue of the carriage upholstery.
The dusky tresses with the wave of a wind-swept banderol in them grew low and luxurious over the broad white forehead, and curled upwards in wealthy profusion over the graceful head.
There was an attempt to decorate with a profusion of flowers.
Borders of irises with violet fragrance dissolving among their stems, a profusion of spreading boughs, and near our bench a thicket from which at intervals darts the straight streak of a gray-bird's flight.
We occasionally crossed tracts of land covered with a plant bearing a profusion of red berries of the cranberry species.
Here nature revels in manifold creation, life multiplies itself a million fold, the soil bursts with exuberance of fertility, and the profusion of vegetable and animal life beggars description.
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