Middlemarch vocabulary

she went lamenting to her husband and brother. The former offered me munificent wages; the latter ordered me to pack up:

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)

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Without your Majesty's munificence and encouragement, the world would have remained destitute of that immense light which has been thrown on geography, navigation, and the most important sciences. To your Majesty, therefore, a work like the present is with particular propriety addressed.

Andrew Kippis. Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods

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But Leon hastily took some silver from his pocket and seized Emma's arm. The beadle stood dumfounded, not able to understand this untimely munificence when there were still so many things for the stranger to see.

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary

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My munificent offer was received with acclamation, though at first they wanted a preliminary smoke and gossip, but I bade them hurry.

Louis Becke. The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton (1902)

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collecting large specimens of Virtu; or playing the munificent patron of Letters and Art; or endowing and bestowing his name upon extensive institutions of charity.

Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The Landscape Garden (1842)