A brimful cup. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Till he felt so light-headed and brimful of pains. From Wordnik.com. [Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper and Other Stories] Reference
In an hour afterward the basin was brimful as ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
When they emerged Happy's face was brimful of glee, but. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home] Reference
Simmons might be small, but he was brimful of bright ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War] Reference
An "excavation site" in the garage was brimful of dog bones. From Wordnik.com. [Party On, Little Dudes] Reference
Prior was brimful of aggression and confidence from the start. From Wordnik.com. [Matt Prior digs deep but debutant Wahab Riaz leaves England in a hole] Reference
They were brimful and overflowing with spontaneous hospitality. From Wordnik.com. [The Jefferson-Lemen Compact The Relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and Northern Territory with Related Documents 1781-1818] Reference
Profusely illustrated, and brimful of incident, adventure and fun. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories] Reference
The life thus destroyed was brimful of hope, for he was gifted with. From Wordnik.com. [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference
But Christmas was near at hand, and the air was brimful of secrets. From Wordnik.com. [Bertha] Reference
Draw through the nose all the air you can, till your chest is brimful. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, December 16, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
Punch is no Mrs. Jellyby, brimful of zeal for Borrio boolas in far-off. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
The two women flashed a glance brimful of significance at one another. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
Mr. MENZIES is a Scotchman, brimful of Caledonian lore and enthusiasm. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862] Reference
By chance I ran across Timberley, a man brimful of resource and suggestion. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 3rd, 1920] Reference
Broken in health, his heart brimful of sorrows, he returned to this blessed place. From Wordnik.com. [Bahíyyih Khánum] Reference
The earth was heavy with fruition, every square field brimful of the ungathered harvest. From Wordnik.com. [Women of the Country] Reference
'The entrance of my learned landlady with a cup brimful of her latest concoction, awoke me. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
But his disposition was cheerful and gentle, and his heart was brimful of kindly affections. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
But let ancient Plato, brimful as he was of philosophy, answer the question "When not to laugh?". From Wordnik.com. [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference
And the woodland men, brimful of superstition, had already invested him with supernatural powers. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Yet the Ottoman answer was as brimful of ethnological and antiquarian sympathy as the Magyar address. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Miss Willoughby, without relinquishing her hold of me, turned towards them with a face brimful of fun. From Wordnik.com. [Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story] Reference
He's given me a cup brimful of mercies; but the biggest of all is, he's sent us our Sammul back again. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
Mercy was carrying the pail, brimful; and that oaf sauntered by her side, with his hands in his pockets. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
And now I will tell you that we like your Henry to the utmost, to the very top of the glass, quite brimful. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
Though youth is brimful of good impulses and quick affections, it is sadly deficient in religious gratitude. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
Wild, wayward, with all the passions -- brimful with untamed vitality -- incapable of the common restraints. From Wordnik.com. [The Crooked House] Reference
"A story born in the heart of Arcadia and brimful of the sweet and simple life of the primitive environment.". From Wordnik.com. ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference
Soft low words and broken sentences, the overflow of two hearts brimful of happiness alone, passed between them. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
When Ruth took her eyes from this letter and fixed them upon the distant blue water-depths they were brimful of tears. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
This was the quantity of water which was usually put into it: but it was capable, if brimful, of holding three thousand. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 11: 3 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference
It was a wonderful epistle, spiced with grand nautical phrases, and brimful of the truly marvellous and incredible in nature. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life] Reference
The novel is brimful of the most beautiful word painting of nature, and its pathos and tender sentiment will endear it to all. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
Mrs. Stanton decided to make her home in New York, but first she visited Susan who found her as stimulating as ever and brimful of ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference
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