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Foodful means (dated) Supplying food..
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/ˈfuːdfəl/ · adjective
(dated) Supplying food..
[…] Athens the fair, where great Erectheus ſway'd, / That ow'd his Nurture to the blue-ey'd Maid, / But from the teeming Furrow took his Birth, / The mighty Offspring of the foodful Earth.
The democratick commonwealth is the foodfull nurſe of ambition. […] Whenever, in ſtates which have had a democratick baſis, they have endeavoured to put reſtraints upon ambition, their methods were as violent, as in the end they were ineffectual; as violent indeed as any the moſt jealous deſpotiſm could invent.
Mid stormy vapours ever driving by, / Where ospreys, cormorants, and herons cry; / Where hardly given the hopeless waste to cheer, / Denied the bread of life the foodful ear, / Dwindles the pear on autumn's latest spray, / And apple sickens pale in summer's ray; […]
Of all the conifers[…], this foodful little pine is the commonest tree, and the most important.
It seems that most seeds are foodful in the arid regions, most berries edible, and many shrubs good for firewood with the sap in them.
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Foodful means (dated) Supplying food..
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[…] Athens the fair, where great Erectheus ſway'd, / That ow'd his Nurture to the blue-ey'd Maid, / But from the teeming Furrow took his Birth, / The mighty Offspring of the foodful Earth.
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