Example Sentences

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Thus the East Germans are plenteously swaddled in curtain material but sadly lacking in fresh fruit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Zeus gave them a home in a fortunate country where the vineyards and cornlands, unplowed and unsown, bore fruits plenteously.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Cæsar, on this occasion, ate and drank plenteously and with pleasure.

From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony

Where shall I rest my hapless head,    Heavy with grief? how plenteously Must I the briny torrents shed—    Alack and woe is me!

From Little Engel a ballad with a series of epigrams from the Persian by Borrow, George Henry

That she did plenteously, and all lines of thought led to the same question, "How will it affect Dic?"

From A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties by Major, Charles