plentier
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We congratulated ourselves on the care with which the "outfit" had been selected at Lexington, for we came through without accident on a road where wrecks were plentier than milestones.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Cox, Jacob Dolson
"Nuts are plentier at Hawley's Grove than at Crow Roost," he jerked, out, and then locked up again.
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated by Dodge, Mary Mapes
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
There's nothing plentier than the name; There's nothing rarer than the thing.
From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Wright, Elizur
In those times the district around our bogland was more thickly inhabited than it is at present, and the blacksmith's jobs were proportionately plentier.
From Strangers at Lisconnel by Barlow, Jane