lavished

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The Commons: ¶ Lavished most of the week on the Finance Bill, debating for 16 hours and finally approving a tax on "buttons imported for fastening purposes."

From Time Magazine Archive

But if whatever thou enjoyed hath been Lavished and lost, and life is now offence, Why seekest more to add—which in its turn Will perish foully and fall out in vain?

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery

Ah, but the infinite patience, the long months Lavished on tasks that, to the common eye, Were insignificant, never to be crowned With great results, or even with earth's rewards.

From Watchers of the Sky by Noyes, Alfred

And behold! with tenfold increase blessing, Spring adorned the beauty-burdened spray; Wind and rain and fervent heat, caressing, Lavished glory on that second May!

From Charlotte Bront? A Monograph by Reid, T. Wemyss

Lavished at wordless wish or mute Command, the chemic wealth Upsprings to meet the builders' hands, All hushed as dusky stealth.

From Song-waves by Rand, Theodore H. (Theodore Harding)