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Its flora is spontaneous and magnificent, repaying the least attention by a development and profuseness of yield that is surprising.

From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Ballou, Maturin Murray

With increased and increasing liabilities, there was more profuseness and greater recklessness.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various

And the profuseness with which he has illustrated his narrative with military plans, with portraits of statesmen and commanders, and with sketches of celebrated localities, gives great interest and value to these pages.”

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by

The profuseness must be measured by the condition of the individual.

From What a Young Woman Ought to Know by Wood-Allen, Mary

Hopeful, but solitary; thou art made to bless generations by the profuseness of thy wealth.

From The Village Notary by E?tv?s, J?zsef