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abound with

vb. To have something in great numbers or quantity; to possess in such abundance as to be characterized by.

Usage examples of "abound with".

Merovan Sea Life The Merovan oceans cover a great portion of the globe and abound with life both bathic and free-swimming.

But the large rivers are full of vessels, and abound with excellent fish.

Among the other things are hardly the restaurants which abound with us, good, bad, and indifferent.

This neighborhood, at the time of which I am speaking, was one of those highly favored places which abound with chronicle and great men.

The plains abound with three kinds of partridge, [3] two of which are as large as hen pheasants.

The leaves of the Sea Bindweed abound with a milky juice which has been employed as a purge - in 1/2 oz.

The hills here, and indeed all the healthy grounds in general, abound with the sweet-smelling plant which the highlanders call gaul, and (I think) with dwarf juniper in many places.

Trees grow tall, and the woodlands abound with all manner of game for the table.

These forests abound with deer and bears, and sometimes the buffalo, when hotly pursued by the Indians in the prairies, will take refuge in its closest thickets.

And but that 'twere a deviation from the use and wont of discourse, I would call history to my aid, and shew it to abound with stories of noble men of old time, who in their ripest age studied above all things else to pleasure the ladies.

They will hardly succeed in that, for the rivers and channels swarm with fish, and now that winter is coming on they will abound with wildfowl.

Prisons abound with them, and so do the world's various halls of government.

The law books abound with similar instances of the care the judges take of the public integrity.

Their woods abound with the noblest and most valuable trees, such as the white and the red sandal, those which bear the Indian (coco) nuts, cloves, and sappan.

Myth and folklore abound with hazy memories of a Golden Age, mostly associated with the time when gods roamed Earth, followed by a Silver Age, and then the ages when gods and men shared Earth - the Age of Heroes, of Copper, Bronze, and Iron.