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English citations of abounding
- 1831, The Spiritual magazine; or, Saint's treasury. [Continued as] The Spiritual magazine, and Zion's casket, page 227:
- Under the discovery of their destitution, and forebodings of eternal ruin, they are led to the cross, and read, in the sin-expiating death of Jesus, their everlasting remission and release. They renounce all fleshly confidences, and gladly embrace a Saviour crucified, in his sin-atoning merits, cleansing blood, and immaculate righteousness, as their everlasting salvation. The glorious gospel, in its all-abounding provision, is thrown open to satiate their enlarged desires, and the grace of a ...
- 1851, Herman Melville. Moby Dick:
- But, though the world scouts at us whale hunters, yet does it unwittingly pay us the profoundest homage; yea, an all-abounding adoration! for almost all the tapers, lamps, and candles that burn round the globe, burn, as before so many shrines, to our glory!
- 1851, Herman Melville. Moby Dick:
- But this august dignity I treat of, is not the dignity of kings and robes, but that abounding dignity which has no robed investiture.
- But, doubtless, this noble savage fed strong and drank deep of the abounding element of air; and through his dilated nostrils snuffed in the sublime life of the worlds.
- His jets are erect, full, and black like soot; so that from so abounding a smoke in the chimney, you would think there must be a brave supper cooking in the great bowels below.
- 1860, Anniversary and Sabbath School Hymns, Or the Child's Sunday School Music Book, page 20:
- Come, ye children, and adore him, Lord of all, he reigns above; Come, and worship now before him, He hath called you by his love. He will grant you every blessing Of his all-abounding grace: Come, with humble hearts ...
- 1885, Andrew Jackson Davis, Beyond the Valley: A Sequel to "The Magic Staff": an Autobiography of Andrew Jackson Davis, page 141:
- The all-abounding vicissitudes may, according to this rule, be eventually balanced by the all-abounding beatitudes.