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  • Brimful of grace and cheer; moving, funny and sweetand begging to be read aloud.

    The Unfinished Angel by Sharon Creech: Book summary 2010

  • I just heard "Brimful of Asha" by Cornershop, I never realised that the repeated chorus was "Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow, everybody needs a bosom."

    Archive 2008-08-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • Brimful of wrath, he hastened to his home to institute enquiries, which, it is almost needless to add, proved all in vain.

    Ralph Rashleigh 2004

  • Brimful of wrath and cabbage,” and excited by the eloquence of the mighty Peter, lighted their pipes, and charged upon the fort:

    Washington Irving 2004

  • They did that song Brimful of Ashes or something. daver

    Hip Hop Hindi? - Anil Dash 2003

  • Brimful of starlight, and he said: The Stamper of the

    Collected Poems William Butler 2002

  • Brimful of a cheerful satay and kaeng keow wan kai, plus a couple more Thai lagers, I was just heading back to the lifts when the desk clerk caught my eye.

    The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992

  • Brimful of good, common-sense hints regarding dress, diet, recreation, and other necessary things in the female economy.

    Publisher's Advertising (1872) Anonymous

  • Brimful of well-balanced advice on making life helpful and pleasant to those around us and to ourselves by the avoidance of common errors and the encouraging of agreeable virtues.

    A Mother's List of Books for Children Gertrude Weld Arnold

  • Brimful of her pleasurable anticipations, and more like the natural, joyous girl of former days than she had been since leaving Mrs. Harold and Polly, she flew to the piazza where her aunt, arrayed in a filmy lingerie gown, reclined in one of the big East India chairs.

    Peggy Stewart at School

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