rife

• Drunkenness was rife, and often we heard them singing ribald songs or insanely shouting. —  The Scarlet Plague
• We enter now on times where the personal estimate of poets begins to be rife, and where the real estimate of them is not reached without difficulty. —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
• Rumours of former floods which had devastated the surrounding plains were rife, and those of the people whose houses stood on the lower grounds began to remove their goods and chattels to higher places. —  The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood
• Speculation was rife, and the most diverse opinions as to the issue of the trial were expressed both on the quarter-deck and the forecastle. —  Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War
• Conjecture was rife, and was greatly assisted by the juniors, who hazarded all sorts of plausible explanations for the general benefit Think he's been to Land's End?" —  The Cock-House at Fellsgarth

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