Oxen are fattened into plethoras to encourage agriculture, and men of station dress like grooms, and bet like blacklegs, to keep up the breed of horses.— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843
These plethoras of all human vitality concentrated in a single head; the world mounting to the brain of one man, -- this would be mortal to civilization were it to last.— Les Misérables
Social Life will lead to phases of over-population and scarcity, there will be occasional famines and occasional pestilences and plethoras of vitality leading to the blood-letting of war.— An Englishman Looks at the World
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