promiseful
Example Sentences
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The yielding odorous soil is promiseful after its stubborn hardness of winter months and we watch it eagerly for the first herbaceous growth.
From Some Winter Days in Iowa by Frederick John Lazell
She consulted the newspapers and found a number of advertisements, some of them a little too mysterious, a little too promiseful.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
All others met at odd30 times and places, breathing in the promiseful air of the clean sod, resolute to put the world of hopeless failure behind them.
From The Moccasin Ranch A Story of Dakota by Hamlin Garland
It was not precisely the romantic valley of our song, but it was a rich and promiseful plot and my father seemed entirely content.
From A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
