Careful Words

crammed (?.)

The common growth of Mother Earth

Suffices me,—her tears, her mirth,

Her humblest mirth and tears.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Peter Bell. Prologue. Stanza 27.

Who with a body filled and vacant mind

Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.

If ladies be but young and fair,

They have the gift to know it; and in his brain,

Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit

After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd

With observation, the which he vents

In mangled forms.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.