BOUNTIFUL in a Sentence

bountiful

 a.  abundant; graciously generous; giving freely and generously

1  Mr. Earnshaw carved bountiful platefuls, and the mistress made them merry with lively talk.

Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII

2  And in August, high in air, the beautiful and bountiful horse-chestnuts, candelabra-wise, proffer the passer-by their tapering upright cones of congregated blossoms.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.

3  Some glance ineffectual from helmet and shield; some Venus the bountiful turned aside as they grazed his body.

The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH

4  What made him hated was his being more stern to punish than bountiful to reward; and Livius instances the following circumstances as giving rise to this hatred.

Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXIII.

5  The North could call on the whole world for supplies and for soldiers, and thousands of Irish and Germans were pouring into the Union Army, lured by the bounty money offered by the North.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII

6  Many Irish and Germans who had been bounty men in the Union Army had settled in Atlanta after their discharge.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII

7  Instinct had prompted her to put away her husband's bounty in casting off her allegiance.

The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVI

8  Whatever was her own in the house, everything which she had acquired aside from her husband's bounty, she caused to be transported to the other house, supplying simple and meager deficiencies from her own resources.

The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIX

9  We will load the back of this Mohican until he staggers under our bounty, and dispatch him after my young men.

The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24

10  But the cradle was by the bounty of Heaven washed ashore.

Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9

11  Now that the plot's out, Brother Bob's bounty must go to the virgins.

Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10

12  a happy homecoming with bodies refreshed by thy bounty, and minds inspired by thy wisdom.

Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10

13  Hubert shook his head as he received with reluctance the bounty of the stranger, and Locksley, anxious to escape further observation, mixed with the crowd, and was seen no more.

Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII

14  When called on to act, his bounty and generosity never fell short.

Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: Chapter XXII.—That the severity of Manlius Torquatus and ...

15  The chief initial source of this was labor in the army, and his pay and bounty as a soldier.

The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II

1  Thanks to the good harvest, we had a bountiful supply of food.

2  If the British were as bountiful as the Americans, donations to charities would more than treble.

3  The taxpayer contended that the definition applied only to transactions which included an element of bounty.

4  It occurred to them to offer kids in the neighborhood a bounty for bringing in dogs running loose.

5  The story of Sir Fred Goodwin and his retirement bounty is exactly why the Banking system in this country cannot carry on as at present.

6  The government has no plans for a wolf cull or a bounty in the province, despite concerns in the cattle industry that the predator population is out of control.

7  Apple announced a list of vulnerabilities that would command big bounties, including $25,000 for ways around Apple's digital compartments and into its customers' data, $50,000 for bugs that give hackers a way into iCloud data, and $200,000 to turn over critical vulnerabilities in Apple's firmware — the software that lies closest to the bare metal of the machine.