Abound

Examples

• They abound, therefore, in the rude produce of land; and instead of importing it from other countries, they have generally a large surplus to export. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The country does not abound in fresh water, and the length of the marches had to be regulated by the distance between water supplies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Sand should abound in the clay in a certain proportion, or be mixed therewith, otherwise the clay, whether burned or unburned, will crumble. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• His letters to these abound with true science, delivered in the most simple, unadorned manner. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• When it's fine, and we go out for a walk in the evening, the streets abound in enjoyment for us. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• All about that church wretchedness and poverty abound. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• My father had fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Never had Lefferts so abounded in the sentiments that adorn Christian manhood and exalt the sanctity of the home. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The whole country about them abounded in beautiful walks. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• All the streams abounded with fish. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Warehouses were lightened, ships were laden; work abounded, wages rose; the good time seemed come. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They abounded in China, in India, and in Egypt before the lyre of Apollo was invented, or the charming harp of Orpheus was conceived. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• There were also wild horses, and the sabre-toothed tiger still abounded. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This strip of land from ocean to ocean abounded in disease-breeding swamps and filthy habitations unfit for human beings. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Brick clay generally is coloured by the oxide of iron, and in proportion as this abounds the burned brick is of a lighter or a deeper red. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• There is no class of inventors where the mass of men are slaves; and when dense ignorance abounds, invention sleeps. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The Bible abounds in such personifications. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Its story abounds in instances of Indian help and kindness to British fugitives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Granite abounds in crystallized earthy materials, and these occur for the most part in veins traversing the mass of the rock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This young Crown Prince was but a sample of the abounding upper-class youth of Germany in the spring of 1914. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Let him seek here the mighty brawn, the muscle, the abounding blood, the full-fed flesh he worshipped: let all materialists draw nigh and look on. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It is a book to which all intelligent readers come sooner or later, abounding as it does in illuminating errors and Boswellian charm. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She had found a new world, abounding in gold and silver and wonderful possibilities of settlement. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The country is mountainous all the way to Atlanta, abounding in mountain streams, some of them of considerable volume. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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