Citations:aboundingly

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English citations of aboundingly

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  • 1851Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
    How it was that they so aboundingly responded to the old man's ire — by what evil magic their souls were possessed, that at times his hate seemed almost theirs; the White Whale as much their insufferable foe as his; how all this came to be — what the White Whale was to them, or how to their unconscious understandings, also, in some dim, unsuspected way, he might have seemed the gliding great demon of the seas of life, — all this to explain, would be to dive deeper than Ishmael can go.