foison
Example Sentences
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So arise, Squire, and take the hounds and come with me; for not far off is a little thicket which mostly harbours foison of deer, great and small.
From Wood Beyond the World by William Morris
When we were come to Cyprus," says Joinville, Histoire de Saint Louis, §§ 72, 73, "we found there greate foison of the Kynge's purveyance.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance To feed my innocent people!
From Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by William Hazlitt
‘Nay,’ said Face-of-god, ‘though I have marvelled whence ye gat such foison of silver.’
From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by William Morris
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