What is "profusely"

Usage examples of "profusely".

A few handfuls of blady grass supply a sheaf of missiles, and with such cheap ammunition the sportsman is justified in providing himself profusely when intent upon the destruction of shy birds.

Majja, who had thanked Minnum and Giyan profusely, had bathed his head and shoulders with water Minnum had brought from a nearby stream.

She wore her usual morning costume -- a breakfast sacque of black silk profusely trimmed with lace, and a black silk skirt.

Brother Francis snatched up the precious document and hiked along beside the robber, thanking him profusely and blessing him repeatedly while the robber guided the ass toward the shrouded archers.

It looked to Speckler as if a body, bleeding profusely, had been jammed against the wall with considerable force, then let go, sliding to the floor but getting hung up at intervals on the way down.

Vying for attention, they fawned over him, stroking their hands caressingly along his sleeves, patting his back, and complimenting him profusely on his horsemanship.

Now he set forth to reach the road, scuffling the sand like a stumblebum, resting many times on the way, sweating profusely.

The mother thanked Jinna profusely for a very long time before she tartly ordered her girls to stop tarrying and come along.

They knelt before him, a ragged but defiant looking crew, half naked, sweating profusely in the heat, but unbowed by his appraisal.

A crowd of temples and of votive altars, profusely scattered along its steep and woody banks, attested the unskilfulness, the terrors, and the devotion of the Grecian navigators, who, after the example of the Argonauts, explored the dangers of the inhospitable Euxine.

Not contented with the blood which was so profusely shed in the heat of action, they traversed the field after the battle, and massacred those miserable wretches who lay maimed and expiring: nay, some officers acted a part in this cruel scene of assassination, the triumph of low illiberal minds, uninspired by sentiment, untinctured by humanity.

A crowd of temples and of votive altars, profusely scattered along its steep and woody banks, attested the unskilfulness, the terrors, and the devotion of the Grecian navigators, who, after the example of the Argonauts, explored the dangers of the inhospitable Euxine.

The Culdees burned seal or whale oil and used wicks made of white-headed cotton grass, which grew profusely everywhere.

Caroline was talking very loudly about how the Sidwells had long been friends with the Dents, and James was agreeing profusely with everything she said.

He threw himself on the neck of the Genoese, and the old man wept in a manner that caused him to withdraw aside, in order to conceal the tears which had so suddenly and profusely broken from fountains that he had long thought nearly dried.