Bouncer's schooldays are "brimfull" of just such fun, adventures and some rivalries. From Wordnik.com. [The Children's Longfellow Told in Prose] Reference
Sometimes I'm brimfull of faith and hope, and sometimes I'm in a perfect abyss of despair. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
Up the valley toward Cashmere, you see the orchards, orderly squares of exuberant trees brimfull of blossoms, elegant white against the green hills. From Wordnik.com. [Rites of Spring] Reference
Here he found a place, whose like he had never seen at all, for it was builded of gold and in its midst was a great basin brimfull of water midmost a vast flower-garden. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
John Keats acknowledged it in the lines, "For I am brimfull of the friendliness/That in a little cottage I have found;/Of fair-hair'd Milton's eloquent distress,/And all his love for gentle Lycid drown'd.". From Wordnik.com. [John Milton At 400] Reference
So that night the house was crammed brimfull with anxious souls, panting for the bread of life. From Wordnik.com. [My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People] Reference
From the house to the river, terrace below terrace sloped down, brimfull already of blossoms and fragrance. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Helmet, Volume II] Reference
We may now proceed to the story of Lazarus which the author calls long, and says, is brimfull of absurdities. From Wordnik.com. [A Vindication of Three of Our Blessed Saviour���s Miracles: viz. The Raising of Jairus���s daughter, The Widow of Naim���s son, and Lazarus.] Reference
When two young folks who are dear to her are brimfull of high happiness, the woman who would turn them out of that. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Our Pond is brimfull & our roads are dirty & our walls are damp, & we sit wishing every bad day may be the last. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others] Reference
"Not Muster Gashford's friend that he spoke to us about in my house, eh?" said Dennis, brimfull of pleasant expectation. From Wordnik.com. [Barnaby Rudge] Reference
'Not Muster Gashford's friend that he spoke to us about in my house, eh?' said Dennis, brimfull of pleasant expectation. From Wordnik.com. [Barnaby Rudge]
There she was, in night-gown and nightcap, and barefooted too, with a face brimfull of excitement and as wide awake as possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Wide, Wide World] Reference
There she was, in nightgown and nightcap, and barefooted, too, with a face brimfull of excitement, and as wide awake as possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Wide, Wide World] Reference
But Dulcie was brimfull of reverence, she was generous to the ends of her hair, she liked to feel her heart in her mouth with admiration. From Wordnik.com. [Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes] Reference
We do not mean to say anything disrespectful to Professor Spiegel, a scholar brimfull of learning, and one of the two or three men who know the Avesta by heart. From Wordnik.com. [Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion] Reference
Hollyhock placed the saucer brimfull of cream also under the eider-down, but she slightly raised the latter by means of a little pile of Lady Leucha's favourite books. From Wordnik.com. [Hollyhock A Spirit of Mischief] Reference
Page view page image: brimfull from recent rains, reflecting in its living mirror the verdant banks, the overhanging trees, the richly-wooded hills, and the clear heaven. From Wordnik.com. [The Travellers] Reference
Here he found a place, whose like he had never seen at all, for it was builded of gold and in its midst was a great basin brimfull of water midmost a vast flower - garden. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
He was, as the Mores said, to whom I had introduced him, 'brimfull of literature:' decisive and enthusiastic in all his sentiments, and impetuous in all his feelings, whether of approval or dislike. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey]
Many a word, (brimfull of meaning to those who will give to the words of the Gospel their best care,) reminds one, that neither did He speak what, in the capital of Jewry, was accounted a classical idiom. From Wordnik.com. [Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford: With Preliminary Remarks: Being an Answer to a Volume Entitled "Essays and Reviews."] Reference
It's just this way, Mr. Zigler, 'he says, 'our people are brimfull of patriotism, but they've been born and brought up between houses, and England ain't big enough to train 'em -- not if you expect to preserve.'. From Wordnik.com. [Traffics and Discoveries] Reference
31 His weekly letters home to his mother, however, are brimfull of his sporting exploits: swimming lengths of the pool underwater, learning to ride horses, scoring goals in soccer and striking boundaries in cricket. From Wordnik.com. [Storyteller] Reference
She was the brunette -- one of your flashing, sparkling, effervescing beauties, -- perpetually running over with exultation -- brimfull of passionate fancies that tripped, on tiptoe, half winged, through her thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. Second Series] Reference
When two young folks who are dear to her are brimfull of high happiness, the woman who would turn them out of that Garden of Eden and spoil their present bliss with warnings of future woe must be of another heart and mind than Cousin Maud. From Wordnik.com. [Margery — Complete] Reference
‘Not Muster Gashford’s friend that he spoke to us about in my house, eh?’ said Dennis, brimfull of pleasant expectation. From Wordnik.com. [Barnaby Rudge] Reference
'brimfull of literature:' decisive and enthusiastic in all his sentiments, and impetuous in all his feelings, whether of approval or dislike. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey] Reference
Flatbottomed tho’ it was not accomplishable to watch the brimfull video and they had to win watching a serving and exclusive a snippet of it, no secondary was easy. From Wordnik.com. [Spy Screw | Surveillance] Reference
"fellow" who held a lucrative office in the Court of King's Bench, and who had sent his son to join the banditties of Mr. Buonaparte, who was not, to suit his purpose, brimfull of loyalty!. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Attitude of youth, whereas 'Senior' is the introverted, dwelling and sometimes graceful counterpart - brimfull with dark secrets and distorted memories, insisting "I'm old, I've got experince ...". From Wordnik.com. [popbytes] Reference
But fill our skins brimfull of wine. From Wordnik.com. [History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour] Reference
For I am brimfull of the friendliness. From Wordnik.com. [Poems 1817] Reference
Where souls brimfull of love abide and meet. From Wordnik.com. [Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems] Reference
"They look as if they were brimfull of stories!". From Wordnik.com. [Real Folks] Reference
Ah, "quoth Paul, as the steward fished up what I took at first for a pair of brimfull water -- stoups. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference
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