foison

Example Sentences

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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 Hewlett, Maurice Henry

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 Morley, Christopher

Now spring-tide showers its foison on the land, And lively hearts wend forth, a joyous band, For 'Isa's breath wakes the dead earth to life, And trees gleam white with flowers, like Musa's hand.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar

Gray Pelican, poised where yon broad shallows shine, Know'st thou, that finny foison all is mine In the bag below thy beak — yet thine, not less?

From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Lanier, Sidney

To this joyous gem Capricorn has added a whole foison of annotations.

From On Something by Belloc, Hilaire