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- adjective Obsolete spelling of
brimful .
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- adjective filled to capacity
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Examples
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Bouncer's schooldays are "brimfull" of just such fun, adventures and some rivalries.
The Children's Longfellow Told in Prose Doris Hayman 1844
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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."
John Milton At 400 2008
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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.
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Up the valley toward Cashmere, you see the orchards, orderly squares of exuberant trees brimfull of blossoms, elegant white against the green hills.
Rites of Spring kenyonsf 2007
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Sometimes I'm brimfull of faith and hope, and sometimes I'm in a perfect abyss of despair.
The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) David Christie Murray
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"A bright, enjoyable book, brimfull of individuality, containing one of the truest sketches of Washington ever written," -- _Record-Herald_, Chicago.
Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics Allen Johnson 1900
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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.'
Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Now it is this complete awareness, this brimfull interest in our own dynamic changes, in our various and variously combined facts of movement inasmuch as _energy_ and _intention, _ it is this sense of the _values of movement_ which
The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics Vernon Lee 1895
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There she was, in night-gown and nightcap, and barefooted too, with a face brimfull of excitement and as wide awake as possible.
The Wide, Wide World 1892
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'Not Muster Gashford's friend that he spoke to us about in my house, eh?' said Dennis, brimfull of pleasant expectation.
Barnaby Rudge Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1892
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