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Example Sentences for "brimming "


He was brimming over with hope.

My eyes are brimming with tears.

His eyes were brimming over with tears.

No; the bee's happiness rests on her knowledge that only the butterflies' long tongues can honestly share with her the brimming wells of nectar in each tiny floret.

Small bees, which if unable to drain the brimming tubes of nectar, at least sip from them and help themselves to pollen also, without paying the flower's price; and certain mischievous wasps, forever bent on nipping holes in tubes they cannot honestly drain, give a score of other pilferers an opportunity to steal sweets.

Their similar method of enforcing payment for a sip of nectar concealed in a tube so narrow and deep none but a sphinx moth or butterfly may drain it all (though large bumblebees occasionally get some too, from brimming nectaries) has been described (q.

Now the early blooming columbine, its slender cornucopias brimming with sweets, welcomes the messenger whose needle-like bill will carry pollen from flower to flower; presently the coral honeysuckle and the scarlet painted-cup attract him by wearing his favorite color; next the jewel-weed hangs horns of plenty to lure his eye; and the trumpet vine and cardinal flower continue to feed him successively in Nature's garden; albeit cannas, nasturtiums, salvia, gladioli, and such deep, irregular showy flowers in men's flower beds sometimes lure him away.

But when I slept, or when the virtue of the medicine wore off, I would leap almost without transition (for the pangs of transformation grew daily less marked) into the possession of a fancy brimming with images of terror, a soul boiling with causeless hatreds, and a body that seemed not strong enough to contain the raging energies of life.

It was as though her nature were so brimming over with something that against her will it showed itself now in the flash of her eyes, and now in her smile.

But he had not taken into account the ocean of kindliness brimming over in the heart of Stepan Arkadyevitch.

" said Alexey Alexandrovitch, letting go her hand, but still gazing into her brimming eyes.

His teachers complained that he would not learn, while his soul was brimming over with thirst for knowledge.

He came across as jaunty, likable, and brimming with self-confidence.

--in his role of Aged Wisdom--has just published Good Spirits: The Making of a Businessman , a memoir brimming with self-congratulatory tales of his business acumen and generosity.

Alexis de Tocqueville noticed in the 1830s that America was brimming with them, and argued that they were good for democracy.

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