1 Mr. Earnshaw carved bountiful platefuls, and the mistress made them merry with lively talk.
2 And in August, high in air, the beautiful and bountiful horse-chestnuts, candelabra-wise, proffer the passer-by their tapering upright cones of congregated blossoms.
3 Some glance ineffectual from helmet and shield; some Venus the bountiful turned aside as they grazed his body.
4 What made him hated was his being more stern to punish than bountiful to reward; and Livius instances the following circumstances as giving rise to this hatred.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXIII. 5 The North could call on the whole world for supplies and for soldiers, and thousands of Irish and Germans were pouring into the Union Army, lured by the bounty money offered by the North.
6 Many Irish and Germans who had been bounty men in the Union Army had settled in Atlanta after their discharge.
7 Instinct had prompted her to put away her husband's bounty in casting off her allegiance.
8 Whatever was her own in the house, everything which she had acquired aside from her husband's bounty, she caused to be transported to the other house, supplying simple and meager deficiencies from her own resources.
9 We will load the back of this Mohican until he staggers under our bounty, and dispatch him after my young men.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24 10 But the cradle was by the bounty of Heaven washed ashore.
11 Now that the plot's out, Brother Bob's bounty must go to the virgins.
12 a happy homecoming with bodies refreshed by thy bounty, and minds inspired by thy wisdom.
13 Hubert shook his head as he received with reluctance the bounty of the stranger, and Locksley, anxious to escape further observation, mixed with the crowd, and was seen no more.
14 When called on to act, his bounty and generosity never fell short.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: Chapter XXII.—That the severity of Manlius Torquatus and ... 15 The chief initial source of this was labor in the army, and his pay and bounty as a soldier.