Example Sentences

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A Chicago native, Miggins said that, growing up, she had no personal connections to the Navy, but her love for aviation was abounding.

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As for her, she was abounding in a tremulous satisfaction.

From Rose MacLeod by Brown, Alice

Wealth was abounding and superabounding; the house was large, the luxury of furnishing and fitting, of service and equipage, was on a scale she had never seen.

From Diana by Warner, Susan

Her confidence in Layson was abounding, and she assured herself till the thought became conviction that he never would permit her to subject herself to anything which properly could be humiliating.

From In Old Kentucky by Marshall, Edward

The people evidently were wealthy for that time and locality, many slaves were on the place, and it was abounding in live stock and poultry of all kinds.

From The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Stillwell, Leander