With the victories of Pompey (88 – 63 bce), pearls were brought back from the Orient in plenitude. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
What a plenitude of brilliant and powerful description!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
Their camping sites were marked by a plenitude of discarded and empty food tins. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
She enjoyed the plenitude of the hours she lived and the astonishment of profound joys. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This potent promise of prospective plenitude sustains us through the empty stomach months. From Wordnik.com. [Donna Henes: Autumn: Season of Ripe Maturity] Reference
Sometimes a single night is sufficient for the floral spring to burst forth in all its plenitude. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Emptiness resides in plenitude and solitude, the problematic path for Buddhists and. From Wordnik.com. [Enlightenment East and West: An Introduction to Romanticism and Buddhism] Reference
Emptiness resides in plenitude and solitude, the problematic path for Buddhists and Romanticists alike. From Wordnik.com. [About This Volume] Reference
To Complain's experienced hunter's eye, their plenitude was a sign that there were few wild animals in the area, the seeds being delicacies to dog and pig alike. From Wordnik.com. [Starship]
The gesture is demanded by some inner 'welling-up', a sense of 'plenitude' which transforms the grey landscape of dawn into spaciousness (216). From Wordnik.com. [Romanes Lecture, Oxford - 'Religious Lives'] Reference
Suns in plenitude are present there. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Martinson - Poetry] Reference
Rather, the essence is a kind of plenitude that displays itself in the endless play of appearances. From Wordnik.com. [One Cosmos] Reference
Softness and plenitude are no shields against the shafts of fate. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
"The plenitude and variety of Mr. Gladstone's intellectual powers," says. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Old Man] Reference
Of this he had an overwhelming plenitude and his eloquent face showed it. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
California might be called the "Hotel State," from the plenitude of its taverns, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
Our critic, in the plenitude of his familiarity with such matters, confidently asks. From Wordnik.com. [West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas] Reference
These are pleasurable instances, and convey a gentle hint that the greater plenitude of the. From Wordnik.com. [Bibliomania in the Middle Ages] Reference
He is the mad plenitude of power seeking for limits, but finding them not, neither in men nor facts. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
But the evil has attained its plenitude since the monstrous institution of the obligatory enlistment. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
One of the most charming things noticeable about a Boer town is the plenitude of trees in the streets. From Wordnik.com. [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference
He began to speak rapidly, with all his usual vehemence, and with even more than his usual plenitude of gesture. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
The end may appear fantastic, unless one remembers the plenitude of means which stood at the command of the mediaeval. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
My poor mother used to lament what she, in the plenitude of her ignorance, was pleased to denominate my disadvantages. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841] Reference
Out of this great number, in which there is a plenitude of "Rah! rah! rah!" the following are especially noteworthy. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
At her entrance in life, she despaired at once of finding elsewhere so rich a nature, such a plenitude of active and thinking forces. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Indeed, he who loves himself, not in idle vanity, but with a plenitude of knowledge, is the best equipped of all to love his neighbors. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
His exuberance of knowledge, and plenitude of ideas, sometimes obstruct the tendency of his reasoning, and the clearness of his decisions. From Wordnik.com. [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference
His own theory, with which it may be assumed that Wolsey, now in the plenitude of his power, was in accord, was more akin to his father's. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
The two main rivers formed thus are the North Branch, which collects a plenitude of troubles in its progress as we have seen, and the South. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior] Reference
Such was the eloquent and intrepid language in which Massillon addressed the Regent Orleans and Louis XV., in the plenitude of their power, in the chapel-royal at Versailles. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
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