Abundance

Usage examples of cornucopia.

By now somewhat numbed by the luxurious trappings that were the norm for the Neverland Hotel, Ray paid scant attention to the dazzling furnishings and the cornucopia of exquisitely rendered art pieces and readied himself to focus on his initial encounter with the great and powerful Harrison Webster.

May the Vesica Piscis symbol be a doorway filled with a cornucopia of gifts for each person who uses it.

Murray has the quixotic ability to disregard the banal surface of television and, with all the innocence of a formalist semiotician, to discover a cornucopia of aesthetic information in its organization.

As Tom watched, two Corsicans strung speaker wire for the two amplified subbass speakers that from above could create a cornucopia of wall-vibrating sounds running the gamut from the window-rattling noise of about-to-land military aircraft to the ominous rumble of close-by thunder.

It is as rich and fecund as the cornucopia, that fabulous horn of the goat Amalthea which suckled Zeus, perpetually overflowing with flowers, fruit, and who knows what.

The overhead light fixtures and wall sconces were shaped like gilded cherubs armed with cornucopias.

Jewish stars, Masonic seals, Templar crosses, cornucopias, pyramids, astrological signs, plants, vegetables, pentacles, and roses.

The cornucopia or "horn of plenty" was a tribute to Baphomet's fertility and dated back to Zeus being suckled by a goat whose horn broke off and magically filled with fruit.

The store was a multicolored cornucopia of dresses and sweaters, bras and stockings, high-heeled shoes and boleros.

From all directions poured mothers holding colored cornucopias and drawing screaming or model children after them.

Their mothers pressed against the wall opposite the window front, clutching in their arms the colored cornucopias covered with tissue paper that were traditional on the first day of school.

On the blackboard (I said) which provided the photographer with the traditional background for postcard-size pictures of six-year-old boys with knapsacks and cornucopias, these words were inscribed: My First School Day.

I have shaped pieces of string into Kashubian potato fields and Norman pastures, and peopled the resulting landscape, which I call Europe for short, with such figures as post office defenders, grocers, people on rostrums, people at the foot of the rostrums, schoolboys with cornucopias, expiring museum attendants, juvenile delinquents preparing for Christmas, Polish cavalrymen at sunset, ants that make history.

And the Eschaton had given them gifts: cornucopias, robot factories able to produce any designated goods to order, given enough time, energy, and raw materials.

Gallant, a dark-faced, cynical-looking man with clever, malicious eyes, and one of those large cornucopias of women with avid blue stares.