foison
Example Sentences
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Was he the only one who felt the challenge offered by the maddening fertility and foison of the hot sun-dazzled earth?
From Where the Blue Begins by Christopher Morley
I have foison of this year's fleeces with me.
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris
The king, dear son, so good and wise, Has gone from earth and gained the skies, Leaving to thee, her rightful lord, This rich wide land with foison stored.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
He reads our earth, cloudscape, landscape, season, foison, man and beast of the field, with the same wistfulness which women who have known sorrow exhibit for children who have not.
From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Maurice Henry Hewlett
And where shall he find due foison If e'en bread-and-butter's poison?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, February 4, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
