mirific

For instance, there is the doctor, whom Mrs.P. does not condescend to visit: that man educates a mirific family, and is loved by the poor for miles round: and gives them port-wine for physic and medicine, gratis.

The Book of Snobs 2006

It was the same Henry Monnier who, meeting him another time on the Place de la Bourse, and having had to listen to another of such mirific demonstrations about a scheme from which both were to derive millions, answered drily:

Balzac 2003

I vow and swear by the handle of my paper lantern that it was a gallant, a mirific, nay, a most admirable piece.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

I vow and swear by the handle of my paper lantern that it was a gallant, a mirific, nay, a most admirable piece.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Place de la Bourse, and having had to listen to another of such mirific demonstrations about a scheme from which both were to derive millions, answered drily:

Balzac Frederick Lawton

He, too, is a dictator, at once humorous and tragic like the mirific doctor, but, unlike him, infinitely subtle.

Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922

What are they that they should interfere with the great mirific and most assuaging and comfortable feast of wit to which I am now about to introduce you!

On Nothing and Kindred Subjects Hilaire Belloc 1911

It was the same Henry Monnier who, meeting him another time on the Place de la Bourse, and having had to listen to another of such mirific demonstrations about a scheme from which both were to derive millions, answered drily:

Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910

It was evident that the family, after the arrival of the mirific Jim Deming, had grown somewhat accustomed to

Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Stuart Oliver Henry 1906

Being a loyal little soul, the child retained his affection for Auntie Anne, but he was swept off his little feet by his mirific parent.

The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol William John Locke 1896