Literary notes about abundant (AI summary)
Writers often use "abundant" to evoke a sense of overflowing richness in both the physical and metaphorical realms. Whether describing the natural world—where water, timber, and game flourish in the landscape [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]—or abstract ideas, such as a profusion of thoughts, evidence, or even virtues [6, 7, 8, 9, 10], the word conveys an intensity that transcends mere quantity. It suggests not only the presence of plenty but also the dynamic and often unexpected surplus that characterizes nature, human experience, and the creative impulse [11, 12, 13].
- Water power being abundant, it is used for running all machinery.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - The soil is as rich as man could wish; climate as good as any in the world; water abundant, and situation extremely beautiful.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana - Deer and wild turkey were abundant, and as for fish there was no end to them.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman - the red and yellow courants are now ripe and abundant, they are reather ascid as yet.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis - side near a spring on a high bank the prickly pears are so abundant that we could scarcely find room to lye.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis - They, are, however, by far the most abundant.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - Yet there was abundant reason for the extraordinary interest which this coming fight was creating.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain - Our study of space-perception in Chapter XVIII will give abundant additional examples both of the truthful and illusory
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - [pg 284] If all her vertues must have growne, yet might 60 Abundant virtue'have bred a proud delight.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) by John Donne - Her hair, brown and abundant, was plainly done, her face was very pale, and her features were good without being distinguished.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham - I had abundant occupation for my thoughts, in every conspicuous landmark on the road.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - "Mistress of the woods, Mielikki, Forest-mother, formed in beauty, Let thy gold flow out abundant, Let thy silver onward wander,
— from Kalevala : the Epic Poem of Finland — Complete - One might find argument for optimism in the abundant flow of this saccharine element of pleasure in every suburb and extremity of the good world.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
