All 4 Uses of
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David Copperfield
- Although a mind like my friend Copperfield's' — to Uriah and Mrs. Heep — 'does not require that cultivation which, without his knowledge of men and things, it would require, still it is a rich soil teeming with latent vegetation — in short,' said Mr. Micawber, smiling, in another burst of confidence, 'it is an intellect capable of getting up the classics to any extent.'†
Chpt 16-18
- Yet his very elbows, when he had his back towards me, seemed to teem with the expression of his fixed opinion that I was extremely young.†
Chpt 28-30 *
- Compressing her lips, in sympathy with the snap, Miss Murdstone opened it — opening her mouth a little at the same time — and produced my last letter to Dora, teeming with expressions of devoted affection.†
Chpt 37-39
- Labour, I believe, is sometimes difficult to obtain in that portion of our colonial possessions where it will be our lot to combat with the teeming soil.'†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(teem) to have a large number of things -- especially things that are moving