There was a large berceau, above which spread the shade of an acacia; there was a smaller, more sequestered bower, nestled in the vines which ran all along a high and grey wall, and gathered their tendrils in a knot of beauty, and hung their clusters in loving profusion about the favoured spot where jasmine and ivy met and married them.
In some places granite pillars, irregularly disposed, supported the vaulted roof, as those in the nave of a cathedral, here forming lateral piers, there elliptical arches, adorned with pointed moldings, losing themselves in dark bays, amid the fantastic arches of which glimpses could be caught in the shade, covered with a profusion of projections formed like so many pendants.
Ata's father had planted crotons round his property, and they grew in coloured profusion, gay and brilliant; they fenced the land with flame.
Her hair, thick and dark like her mother's, fell over her shoulders in fine profusion, and she had the same kindly expression and sedate, untroubled eyes.
The furniture was in all the profusion and elegance of modern taste.
Here indeed were both in profusion.
She had never been even in a venerable house; and such a thing as a profusion of flowers in her rooms was unattainable to her.
For the moment, just let me indulge in this profusion of moonlight and lotus fragrance.
Research suggests that chronic boredom is responsible for a profusion of negative outcomes such as overeating, gambling, truancy, antisocialbehaviour, drug use, accidents, risk taking and much more.
But as chief executive of Profusion, a data science consultancy, he had been urging his team of number crunchers to plan more ambitious internal projects — and this was the one they had come up with.
Sir David Attenborough, president of Butterfly Conservation, said: "Butterflies in profusion tell us that all is well with nature.
The red, sour rowan-berries grew in richest profusion about his house and garden.
At the back, large palm-trees were growing; and the sunlight made the leaves—look quite glossy; and beneath them what a profusion of luxuriant green, and of flowers red like flame, yellow as amber, or white as new-fallen snow!
Here on the heath were riches unknown to him until now; for flowers, blackberries, and bilberries were to be found in profusion, so large and sweet that when they were crushed beneath the tread of passers-by the heather was stained with their red juice.
"The blossoms are often plucked," said Anthony; "the fruit is stolen and the branches broken without a thankful thought of their profusion and beauty.
" Wild-flowers in profusion covered the hedges.
Then they went into Death's vast hothouse, where flowers and trees grew together in wonderful profusion.
