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God's plenty

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noun

  1. an abundant or overabundant quantity.


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Here was God’s plenty, all right, he thought bitterly as he stared—liver, lungs, kidneys, ribs, stomach and bits of the stewed tomatoes Snowden had eaten that day for lunch.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Oh, yes; there is "God's plenty" of poetry in these sights and sounds, if only one looks deep enough to discover the beauty of homeliness.

From The Joyful Heart by Robert Haven Schauffler

The right comment upon it is Dryden's: "It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty."

From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by William Savage Johnson

We have so many vowel sounds indeed, and so few vowels to express them, that the foreigner, mistaking our modesty, complains against God's plenty.

From On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Here is, if not exactly "God's plenty," at any rate plenty of a kind—plenty whose horn is inexhaustible and the reverse of monotonous.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

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