luxuriance

Historical Examples

• The vegetation was extravagant in its luxuriance and splendor.

  The Rock of Chickamauga

  Joseph A. Altsheler

• Fruit trees, Turkey corn, vines, and flax flourished in luxuriance.

  Vivian Grey

  Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli

• There is a luxuriance of decoration in the many chapels of different epochs.

  The Cathedrals of Northern France

  Francis Miltoun

• They were lavish in their praises of its luxuriance, its fruits, its game, and its birds of brilliant plumage.

  The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago

  John S. C. Abbott

• First, his luxuriance of imagination, and at the same time his control over it.

  Spare Hours

  John Brown