His thick bulk in repose suggested the idea of repletion, but as a matter of fact he had eaten very little. From Wordnik.com. ['Twixt Land and Sea] Reference
"But yes -- and I am already filled to repletion.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-18] Reference
We are both full, and reflect each other's repletion. From Wordnik.com. [Dawn] Reference
"That's not a sigh of repletion, Penny," she explained. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
Such a repletion of visitors had never been known there. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
Since Sulla's sword drank to repletion and earth's bristling harvest. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
My glass of vodka demands repeat repletion and the whole world reeks of guilt. From Wordnik.com. [Rot] Reference
It would accommodate two hundred thousand people, and was filled to repletion. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
The Englishman, at table, drinks to repletion; the Frenchman never exceeds intoxication. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
Americans want the borders secure so we don't have the repletion of what we did in 1986. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2008] Reference
The lyrics of the Ur song are much simpler and not mournful, speak of repletion, not loss. From Wordnik.com. [Born Sidestepper] Reference
But Mr. DUKE'S emphatic denial shattered their dream of repletion at the taxpayers 'expense. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917] Reference
All were asleep after their mid-day meal, upon which they had gorged themselves to repletion. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century] Reference
And generally the body is preserved by repletion and evacuation, and the soul by rest and work. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Then a feeling of satisfied repletion stole gently over us, and we felt pleased with everything. From Wordnik.com. [The Man-Wolf and Other Tales] Reference
It is full to repletion with objects of interest, especially to the ethnologist and to the archæologist. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
I have known Tupper's "Proverbial Philosophy" to fill one of them to repletion, for the space of ten years!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
He left the impression on the beholder of one intoxicated with success and the repletion of human applause. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Everywhere great quantities of macaroni or of fried fish are prepared, and the guests eat and drink to repletion. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.] Reference
The physical appetite gains strength, by moderate exercise; but it is palled and weakened by every instance of repletion. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education] Reference
Stanhope rose with the sentiment of the evening, he found satisfaction, if not repletion, in the regards turned upon him. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference
Given the central role of water not only in our bodies but also in our profession, it seems a deficit worthy of repletion. From Wordnik.com. [The Need for People-Friendly Research & Development] Reference
Here, at least, were none of the obnoxious evidences of repletion which he viewed with such disapprobation in his sturdier nephew. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
The disease of government, Burke remarked, was a repletion; the over-feeding of the stomach had destroyed the vigour of the limbs. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
What he will need right now is very aggressive hydration and fluid repletion to help to minimize any permanent damage to the kidneys. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2006] Reference
Fill your own head to repletion with the subject; be ambitious to leave, if possible, no book unread, books of even collateral bearing. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference
He ate and drank to repletion, praising every dish without stint, and paying his hostess such daring compliments that her round face was. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Arrived at the friendly villages, on or near the Savannah, they were feasted to repletion, and their boat laden with vegetables and corn. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
And then, wherefore is there neither swelling nor repletion of the veins, nor any sign or symptom of attraction or afflux, above the ligature?. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
After that they ate ice cream to repletion, and at last the girls decided that there was nothing much left to do but to go back to the school. From Wordnik.com. [Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island The Mystery of the Wreck] Reference
England; certainly the completest contrast that imagination could devise to the modern grocer's shop of the town, plate-glassed, illumined and stored to repletion. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
We were more like beasts than human beings for over a quarter of an hour; and then, we roared with an agony of pain from the distension this sudden repletion gave us. From Wordnik.com. [The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace] Reference
Easterns are astonished at the frequency of English meals, under the idea apparently that we eat to repletion three or four times a day, instead of only twice as they do. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
Another striking point of analogy between mental and bodily nourishment, is to be found in the effects of repletion, when too great a quantity of food is communicated at one time. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education] Reference
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