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munificent
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  • I did not feel munificent, but thankful, each time he would let me in.†  (source)
  • When he saw me he made me a low bow, and assured me that I was a munificent patron of art.†  (source)
  • The former offered me munificent wages; the latter ordered me to pack up: he wanted no women in the house, he said, now that there was no mistress; and as to Hareton, the curate should take him in hand, by-and-by.†  (source)
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  • The die was cast one winter's day when I received a summons from the Dominion Wildlife Service informing me that I had been hired at the munificent salary of one hundred and twenty dollars a month, and that I "would" report to Ottawa at once.†  (source)
  • But despite this apparent munificence, the meat he'd been killing was very lean, and he was consuming fewer calories than he was burning.†  (source)
  • The seizure of the multi-billion dollar d'Anconia Copper was to come as a munificent surprise to the country.†  (source)
  • How she had organized for Velutha to be educated and given him a job ...Mammachi, though annoyed at his drunkenness, wasn't averse to listening to bardic stories about herself and her family's Christian munificence.†  (source)
  • The delighted recipients of these munificent gifts would gladly have poured out their thanks to their generous benefactor, but they had seen him, upon quitting the hut, merely give some orders to a sailor, and then springing lightly on horseback, leave Marseilles by the Porte d'Aix.†  (source)
  • At the time, Edgar had taken it as beer-fueled backwoods munificence, but now he heard it as a perverse taunt.†  (source)
  • Again: Tellson's was a munificent house, and extended great liberality to old customers who had fallen from their high estate.†  (source)
  • Nearly everything she possessed flowed from Nathan's munificence, including even (she said with a giggle) her diaphragm.†  (source)
  • Although Senators were paid the munificent sum of $6 per day, and their privileges included the use of great silver snuffboxes on the Senate floor, the aristocratic manners which had characterized the first Senate were strangely out of place when the struggling hamlet of Washington became the capital city in 1800, for its rugged surroundings contrasted sharply with those enjoyed at the temporary capitals in New York and Philadelphia.†  (source)
  • 'Oh, Peter!' cried Bobbie, quite overcome by this munificence, 'not your own dear little engine that you're so fond of?'†  (source)
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