In Brooke, I feel the superabundance of joy in the attractiveness of the world, but I do not feel the language of him commensurate or distinguished in the qualities of poetic or literary art.
The heart of the buffalo or other animal may perhaps be substituted, if the bridegroom has not a superabundance of horses.
A little further on, however, we very unexpectedly encountered, this time, quite a superabundance of this necessary element.
Illustration: THE TOWN HALL] I believe we went to see three churches in this little town, but I have seen such a superabundance of churches lately, that I cannot remember the characteristic features of any of the three.
There were three in the great dining-saloon, whose superabundance of empty chairs and tables gave even greater dreariness to the house than its long, empty corridors.
This superabundanceseems to us the chief defect in "Sir Rohan's Ghost.
The superabundanceis all very fine, of the costliest kind; but was Clarence any the better for being done to death in Malmsey instead of water?
They were wont to possess, for example, a superabundance of bone, were badly built, and were notably backward in development.
In a country of oxen the superabundance of meat was made only too evident.
That is, we want the body to be quickly responsive, to be flexible, to be so that we can use it for the things we want to do without wasting strength, and yet without being weighed down by a superabundance of muscular tissue.
Is your system oppressed with a superabundanceof sweets?
The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.
A superabundance or congestion of blood in an organ or part of the body.
Corpulent has reference simply to a superabundance or excess of flesh.
In every country where I have travelled I have observed a human weakness among the population on the question of "game;" there is a universal tendency to exaggeration; but the locality of superabundance is always distant from the narrator.
And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up the superabundance of the fragments, twelve baskets full.
And they did all eat, and were filled: and took up a superabundance of fragments seven baskets full.
In this beautiful land there is ample space and a superabundance of pure air for every individual.
We left a very meagre dessert of cherries beginning to ripen at Naples; the very next day, a superabundance of very fine and mature ones were to be had on all the stalls of Palermo.
Who can take his own superabundance and therewith serve all under heaven?
There is an absence of civility, with a superabundance of officials, and a porter is not to be met with.
The chief cause is without doubt the superabundance of earthy matter in the drinking water.
Many people dedicate their lives to the act of turning a superabundance of food into waste, and as a result they overwork their bodies so that they are never well physically and seldom efficient mentally.
Billy’s superabundance of energy and love of fun was well exercised out of school hours; he stuck pretty well to his books in the classroom.
He was the son of a widowed lady who seemed to have a superabundance of cash and who was very proud and haughty.
We couldn’t afford such a superabundanceof beauty.
The worst of Italy is the superabundance of the riches it offers ear and eye and nose--offers every sense--ending in a glut of pleasure.
Our table was now always well covered, as we had a superabundance of the finest vegetables.
The scarcity of hands in one parish, therefore, cannot always be relieved by their superabundance in another, as it is constantly in Scotland, and I believe, in all other countries where there is no difficulty of settlement.
In the one state, therefore, there is always a superabundance of these materials, which are frequently, upon that account, of little or no value.
The pretence of this order was the scarcity of corn and pasture, and the superabundance of wine.
In them, too, the rich, having a greater superabundance of food to dispose of beyond what they themselves can consume, have the means of purchasing a much greater quantity of the labour of other people.
Our tobacco planters, accordingly, have shewn the same fear of the superabundance of tobacco, which the proprietors of the old vineyards in France have of the superabundance of wine.
The one is in an advancing state, and has therefore a continual demand for new hands; the other is in a declining state, and the superabundance of hands is continually increasing.
