Citations:abounding

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.