plentier

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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

"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

Why come so late?—why no come when 'e foot of Susquesus light as feather of bird?—why stay away till pale-faces plentier dan leaf on tree, or snow in air?

From The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore

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

Aweel," said Richie, "a wilful man must have his way; ye must think that I was born and bred where cracked crowns were plentier than whole ones.

From The Fortunes of Nigel by Scott, Walter, Sir