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  • The throng of reporters, mostly Japanese, wanted a neatly scripted version of the calamity, replete with villains and heroes.†   (source)
  • Replete, they stretched out on their backs, faces to the sky.†   (source)
  • The look on his face was so honest, so replete, that I felt like I was intruding.†   (source)
  • At his side hung a black broadsword, and gauntlets covered hands that were once replete with rings.†   (source)
  • Adams's objections stemmed not so much from a Puritan background—as often said—but from the ideal of republican virtue, the classic Roman stoic emphasis on simplicity and the view that decadence inevitably followed luxury, age-old themes replete in the writings of his favorite Romans.†   (source)
  • After reaching Morgan Tanner's office, Dawson and Amanda sat in the small reception area replete with scuffed pine floors, end tables stacked with outdated magazines, and fraying upholstered chairs.†   (source)
  • The valet's tone was replete with grievance.†   (source)
  • In their hats adorned with eye-catching plumes, their long black gloves, and fashionable dresses replete with corsages of flowers, they are impossible to ignore.†   (source)
  • Cactus led the way through a wide archway toward a door at the rear of a worn out living room replete with ancient furniture and yellowed antimacassars.†   (source)
  • In her eyes he sees a happy future replete with marriage, children, and increased prosperity as he refocuses on his career.†   (source)
  • Their history is replete with examples of very fast technological advance mixed with periods of relative stasis.†   (source)
  • The corporal had perhaps a score of these, each featuring a different scene, replete with detailed settings and whatever scant costume, and he slowly shuffled through them with an unswerving awe and reverence that made me believe he was a Christian.†   (source)
  • The crowd, full of good feeling, replete with food and drunk with the music, vicariously excited, pressed round, eagerly thrusting over their heads garland after garland of flowers; the earth was spattered with petals.†   (source)
  • When I was eighteen I spent a summer doing field work in the company of another mammalogist, seventy years of age, who was replete with degrees and whose towering stature in the world of science had been earned largely by an exhaustive study of uterine scars in shrews.†   (source)
  • And then she bent down and glued upon my lips a wonderful moist rubbery kiss, replete with a surprising tongue which made a quick playful foray in my mouth, then vanished.†   (source)
  • Because the very silence between the men was-at last-replete and dreamlike, the hills were to Eugene increasingly like those stairs he climbed in dreams.†   (source)
  • The embellishments in the oblong room, though old and faded, were replete with familiar symbology.†   (source)
  • History is replete with great minds who have all proclaimed the same thing ....great minds who have all insisted that man possesses mystical abilities of which he is unaware.†   (source)
  • The latter was replete with uniformed guards who scrutinized everyone's working papers and searched all bags and bulging pockets when the employees left for the day.†   (source)
  • If we could travel in a time machine back toward this explosive moment, we would find ourselves in a universe replete with energies we do not understand and strangely behaving forces distorted beyond recognition.†   (source)
  • There was a silence—a comfortable replete silence.†   (source)
  • Our steamers have won an enviable reputation for their cabins replete with luxury.†   (source)
  • A tall black boy recited a long, funny piece of doggerel, replete with filth, describing the physiological relations between men and women, and I memorized it word for word after having heard it but once.†   (source)
  • So by dint of our united exertions we send ships to the remotest parts of the globe; replete with lavatories and gymnasiums.†   (source)
  • Gorged and replete, solid with middle-aged content, I, whom loneliness destroys, let silence fall, drop by drop.†   (source)
  • The baby had sunk back blissfully replete, and Mrs. Struther softly rose to lay the bottle aside.†   (source)
  • In order to set her up in a modern mansion, replete with every convenience and dominated by a quite respectable and eminently economical master of the house, it was necessary that Edward and Nancy Rufford should become, for me at least, no more than tragic shades.†   (source)
  • And all replete I'd sit me down beside some guy in derby brown upon a lobby chair of plush, and murmur to him in a rush, "Hello, Bill, tell me, good old scout, how is your stock a-holdin' out?"†   (source)
  • The learned conductor of these experiments was put in the happy situation of supplying a Greek name, replete with scientific decorum, to these feats.†   (source)
  • They were developing in him, and the camp-life, replete with misery as it was, was secretly endearing itself to him all the time.†   (source)
  • It looked full and replete.†   (source)
  • Doctor Mell, in a speech replete with feeling, then proposed "Our distinguished Guest, the ornament of our town.†   (source)
  • How grievous then was the thought that, of a situation so desirable in every respect, so replete with advantage, so promising for happiness, Jane had been deprived, by the folly and indecorum of her own family!†   (source)
  • He resumed this occupation when he was replete with beef, had sucked up all the gravy in the baking-dish with the flat of his knife, and had drawn liberally on a barrel of small beer in the scullery.†   (source)
  • Her selections from the Bible, therefore, were commonly distinguished by the simplicity of her own mind, and were oftener marked for containing images of known and palpable things than for any of the higher cast of moral truths with which the pages of that wonderful book abound—wonderful, and unequalled, even without referring to its divine origin, as a work replete with the profoundest philosophy, expressed in the noblest language.†   (source)
  • That Mr. and Mrs. Weston did think of it, she was very strongly persuaded; and though not meaning to be induced by him, or by any body else, to give up a situation which she believed more replete with good than any she could change it for, she had a great curiosity to see him, a decided intention of finding him pleasant, of being liked by him to a certain degree, and a sort of pleasure in the idea of their being coupled in their friends' imaginations.†   (source)
  • Walled in by houses; overrun by grass and weeds, the growth of vegetation's death, not life; choked up with too much burying; fat with repleted appetite.†   (source)
  • With every slender ornament, the occupation of her leisure hours, replete with that graceful charm which lingers in every little tasteful work of woman's hands, how much patient endurance and how many gentle affections were entwined!†   (source)
  • Is not life replete with more instruction than past observers have found it possible to write down in maxims?†   (source)
  • Comes Mr. Snagsby in his black coat; come the Chadbands; come (when the gorging vessel is replete) the 'prentices and Guster, to be edified; comes at last, with his slouching head, and his shuffle backward, and his shuffle forward, and his shuffle to the right, and his shuffle to the left, and his bit of fur cap in his muddy hand, which he picks as if it were some mangy bird he had caught and was plucking before eating raw, Jo, the very, very tough subject Mr. Chadband is to improve.†   (source)
  • The next day, however, being the Sabbath, he preached a discourse which was held to be the richest and most powerful, and the most replete with heavenly influences, that had ever proceeded from his lips.†   (source)
  • Thomas and you, to whom the circle of the sciences is open; Thomas and you, who may be said to be replete with facts; Thomas and you, who have been trained to mathematical exactness; Thomas and you, here!' cried Mr. Gradgrind.†   (source)
  • Madame Merle was a tall, fair, smooth woman; everything in her person was round and replete, though without those accumulations which suggest heaviness.†   (source)
  • The teeming brain of childhood requires no external world of incident to occupy or amuse it; and the apparently dismal monotony of a school was replete with more intense excitement than my riper youth has derived from luxury, or my full manhood from crime.†   (source)
  • There, in the centre of the earth, where the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmapootra rise to run their different courses; where mankind took up their first abode, and separated to replete the world, leaving Balk, the mother of cities, to attest the great fact; where Nature, gone back to its primeval condition, and secure in its immensities, invites the sage and the exile, with promise of safety to the one and solitude to the other—there I went to abide alone with God, praying, fasting, waiting for death.†   (source)
  • I was overcome by gloom and misery and often reflected I had better seek death than desire to remain in a world which to me was replete with wretchedness.†   (source)
  • Isabel came back to Florence, but only after several months; an interval sufficiently replete with incident.†   (source)
  • Has this mind, so replete with ideas, imaginations fanciful and magnificent, which formed a world, whose existence depended on the life of its creator;—has this mind perished?†   (source)
  • 'No,' said Mr Dorrit, 'no: I am not sensible of fatigue when it arises from an occasion so—hum—replete with gratification of the purest kind.'†   (source)
  • Impossible that any situation could be more replete with comfort; if we except, perhaps, Mrs. Suckling's own family, and Mrs. Bragge's; but Mrs. Smallridge is intimate with both, and in the very same neighbourhood:—lives only four miles from Maple Grove.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, seized with sudden agony, he could not continue his tale; at others, his voice broken, yet piercing, uttered with difficulty the words so replete with anguish.†   (source)
  • For this reason a prince ought to take care that he never lets anything slip from his lips that is not replete with the above-named five qualities, that he may appear to him who sees and hears him altogether merciful, faithful, humane, upright, and religious.†   (source)
  • Whose smile upon each feature plays with such and such replete.†   (source)
  • Oft have I heard of you, my Lord Berowne, Before I saw you; and the world's large tongue Proclaims you for a man replete with mocks; Full of comparisons and wounding flouts, Which you on all estates will execute That lie within the mercy of your wit: To weed this wormwood from your fruitful brain, And therewithal to win me, if you please,— Without the which I am not to be won,— You shall this twelvemonth term, from day to day, Visit the speechless sick, and still converse With groaning wretches; and your task shall be, With all the fierce endeavour of your wit To enforce the pained impotent to smile.†   (source)
  • So spake the Arch-Angel Michael; then paused,
    As at the world's great period; and our sire,
    Replete with joy and wonder, thus replied.†   (source)
  • The entire separation of the States into thirteen unconnected sovereignties is a project too extravagant and too replete with danger to have many advocates.†   (source)
  • Take her by the hand, And tell her she is thine: to whom I promise A counterpoise; if not to thy estate, A balance more replete.†   (source)
  • Herodes, who so well the stories sought, <10>
    When he of wine replete was at his feast,
    Right at his owen table gave his hest* *command
    To slay the Baptist John full guilteless.†   (source)
  • On the right hand I saw new sorrow, new torments, and new scourgers, with which the first pit [1] was replete.†   (source)
  • There are other consequences, not indeed so dreadful or replete with horror as this; and yet such, as, if attentively considered, must, one would think, deter all of your sex at least from the commission of this crime.†   (source)
  • He ended; and his words, replete with guile,
    Into her heart too easy entrance won:
    Fixed on the fruit she gazed, which to behold
    Might tempt alone; and in her ears the sound
    Yet rung of his persuasive words, impregned
    With reason, to her seeming, and with truth:
    Mean while the hour of noon drew on, and waked
    An eager appetite, raised by the smell
    So savoury of that fruit, which with desire,
    Inclinable now grown to touch or taste,
    Solicited her longing eye; yet first
    Pausing a while, thus to herself she mused.†   (source)
  • Sire, forget not this for Godde's love;
    Ye be full choleric of complexion;
    Ware that the sun, in his ascension,
    You finde not replete of humours hot;
    And if it do, I dare well lay a groat,
    That ye shall have a fever tertiane,
    Or else an ague, that may be your bane,
    A day or two ye shall have digestives
    Of wormes, ere ye take your laxatives,
    Of laurel, centaury, <9> and fumeterere, <10>
    Or else of elder-berry, that groweth there,
    Of catapuce, <11> or of the gaitre-berries, <12>
    Or herb ivy growing in our yard, that merry is:
    Pick them right as they grow, and eat them in,
    Be merry, husband, for your father's kin;
    Dreade no dream; I can say you no more.†   (source)
  • This practice in the course of the late war, was found replete with obstructions to a vigorous and to an economical system of defense.†   (source)
  • It was now the middle of May, and the morning was remarkably serene, when Mr Allworthy walked forth on the terrace, where the dawn opened every minute that lovely prospect we have before described to his eye; and now having sent forth streams of light, which ascended the blue firmament before him, as harbingers preceding his pomp, in the full blaze of his majesty rose the sun, than which one object alone in this lower creation could be more glorious, and that Mr Allworthy himself presented—a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator, by doing most good to his creatures.†   (source)
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