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I basked in bliss and plenitude for several minutes.† (source)
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Back at the Barbours', amidst the clamor and plenitude of a family that wasn't mine, I now felt even more alone than usual—especially since, as the end of the school year neared, it wasn't clear to me (or Andy either, for that matter) if I would be accompanying them to their summer house in Maine.† (source)
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It was now for the first time war appeared to me in its awful plenitude of horrors.† (source)
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The heart of his breakfast was a plenitude of sourdough biscuits, which he cooked in a Dutch oven out in the backyard.† (source)
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In the plenitude of their relationship, Florentino Ariza had asked himself which of the two was love: the turbulent bed or the peaceful Sunday afternoons, and Sara Noriega calmed him with the simple argument that love was everything they did naked.† (source)
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It seemed to me that Babette and I, in the mass and variety of our purchases, in the sheer plenitude those crowded bags suggested, the weight and size and number, the familiar package designs and vivid lettering, the giant sizes, the family bargain packs with Day-Glo sale stickers, in the sense of replenishment we felt, the sense of well-being, the security and contentment these products brought to some snug home in our souls—it seem ed we had achieved a fullness of being that is not known to people who need less, expect less, who plan their lives around lonely walks in the evening.† (source)
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Mine host Gil O'Hearn had as usual done himself proud and those assembled feasted on such an assemblage of plates as could be rivaled nowhere west of New York, if there, and washed down the plenteous feed with the cup which inspired but did not inebriate in the shape of cider from the farm of Chandler Mott, president of the board and who acted as witty and efficient chairman.† (source)
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But on second thought, he has no way of knowing that; and he has an uneasy sense that the very plenitude of her recollections may be a sort of distraction, a way of drawing the mind away from some hidden but essential fact, like the dainty flowers planted over a grave.† (source)
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They did flow and plenteously, and one fell upon the stone bench beside her.† (source)
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41:53 And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Plenteous oaths heaved through the air.† (source)
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There was simply combined with the thought of Leslie's imminent appearance a stirring awareness—I confess without shame—of this plenitude of money.† (source)
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There was no need of this caution, for the elder Sedley himself began immediately to speak of the event, and prattled about it, and wept over it plenteously.† (source)
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21:5 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.† (source)
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Thus the mind of Frick was exactly of the sort for Mr. Solomon Featherstone to work upon, he having more plenteous ideas of the same order, with a suspicion of heaven and earth which was better fed and more entirely at leisure.† (source)
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Fenced and patrolled, identified at the highway as a think tank called the Quartermass Institute, the property encompasses eighteen hundred acres in the Virginia countryside: meadowed hills where deer graze, hushed woods of birch and beeches where a plenitude of small game thrives beyond the rifle reach of hunters, ponds with ducks, and grassy fields with nesting plovers.† (source)
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