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a full supply- They did flow and plenteously, and one fell upon the stone bench beside her.Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
- It was now for the first time war appeared to me in its awful plenitude of horrors.David G. McCullough -- 1776
- The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Another element that distinguished this summer and autumn for the Divers was a plenitude of money.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
- 41:53 And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.The Bible -- Genesis
- Plenteous oaths heaved through the air.Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
- —Of so high and plenteous wit and invention!William Shakespeare -- Othello, the Moor of Venice
- 21:5 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.The Bible -- Proverbs
- 86:5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.The Bible -- Psalms
- Yesterday it was appetite, to-day it is plenitude, to-morrow it will be satiety.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- I basked in bliss and plenitude for several minutes.Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
- It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
- There was simply combined with the thought of Leslie's imminent appearance a stirring awareness—I confess without shame—of this plenitude of money.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- 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.William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
- He had visited Daisy several times, had eaten at Gant's plenteous board.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- My plenteous joys, Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.William Shakespeare -- Macbeth
- And since it is the source of all existence, it yields the world's plenitude of both good and evil.Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
- Its streams the whole creation reach, So plenteous is the store; Enough for all, enough for each, Enough for evermore.George Eliot -- Adam Bede
- The heart of his breakfast was a plenitude of sourdough biscuits, which he cooked in a Dutch oven out in the backyard.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
- The jolly crew, unmindful of the past, The quarry share, their plenteous dinner haste.Virgil -- The Aeneid
(Editor's note: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means state or degree of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.)
(Editor's note: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means state or degree of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.)