"Abound in" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... history like a Benedictine, and the antiquities of Rome as a botanist does his favourite flora. But architecture was the art which he esteemed most essential to a painter; and accordingly his landscapes abound in exquisite delineations ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 - Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852 • Various
... desperate pluck and dash abound in the records of the blockade. Both among the officers of the blockading-fleets, and the commanders of the runners, were found great courage and fine seamanship. One fact is particularly noticeable to the student of the blockade: an English captain running the blockade would never ...
— The Naval History of the United States - Volume 2 (of 2) • Willis J. Abbot
... were some Tories found, For Tories still there be; In fact, the species doth abound In spite of ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, January 18, 1890 • Various
... morsels of paper without hesitation or demur. Thus by a subtle and most miraculous kind of alchymy did this Catholic cavalier turn worthless paper into precious gold, and make his late impoverished garrison abound in money!" ...
— Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada • Washington Irving
... abound in descriptive passages, and his power of word-painting is very vivid, as well as frequently employed. But we have here another instance of a quality diffused throughout his work, yet scarcely ever asserting ...
— A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) • Mrs. Sutherland Orr
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