plentier

Example Sentences

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He preceded me in life, and I see few remains of his character in a region where speculation is more rife than moralizing, and emigrants are plentier than hunters.

From Home as Found by Cooper, James Fenimore

"I don't see's Californy goold gets much plentier, or business much better, nowhere."

From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

Besides, she thought Chapelizod was not safe ground for a young fellow so eccentric, perverse, and impetuous, where pretty faces were plentier than good fortunes, and at every tinkling harpsichord there smiled a possible mesalliance.

From The House by the Church-Yard by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

In consequence of these views, he refused to sell, but gave leases on such conditions as would induce tenants to come into his terms, in a country in which land was far plentier than men.

From Satanstoe by Cooper, James Fenimore

We had a line of martin traps leadin' back to the hills, and over into a valley beyond, where the animal was plentier than they were on our side.

From Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod by Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.)