Abounded

Examples

• 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.
• But the age of wood has always existed, wherever forests abounded. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Scorpions abounded, and a number of early spiders, which, however, had no spinnerets for web making. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Red wood, a species of cedar, which on the Pacific coast takes the place filled by white pine in the East, then abounded on the banks of Humboldt Bay. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The country abounded in game, such as deer and antelope, with abundance of wild turkeys along the streams and where there were nut-bearing woods. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• If robbers abounded, tax-gatherers and creditors had disappeared. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Edith was impatient to get well, in order to fill Margaret's bed-room with all the soft comforts, and pretty nick-knacks, with which her own abounded. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

Typist: Montague