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1813 — Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his. Her father had been an attorney in Meryton, and had left her four thousand pounds.

"Oh! no, my regret and compassion are all done away by seeing you so full of both. I know you will do him such ample justice, that I am growing every moment more unconcerned and indifferent. Your profusion makes me saving; and if you lament over him much longer, my heart will be as light as a feather."

1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
Its feet, observable beneath the ample folds of the garment, were also bare; and on its head it wore no other covering than a holly wreath, set here and there with shining icicles.

1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
Besides, if it were so that any mere sailor of the Pequod had a grudge against Flask in Flask's official capacity, all that sailor had to do, in order to obtain ample vengeance, was to go aft at dinner-time, and get a peep at Flask through the cabin sky-light, sitting silly and dumfoundered before awful Ahab.

Still more, for the ample fins, I here saw but a few disordered joints; and in place of the weighty and majestic, but boneless flukes, an utter blank!

1965, Paul Dey, Orages sur le Tage, Paris: Librairie des Champs-Élysées, published 1965, page 96:
J’enfile le costume fatigué qu’il a déposé discrètement sur mon lit et qui doit lui appartenir car il est trop ample pour moi. La veste flotte autour de mon buste et les jambes du pantalon tirebouchonnent sur mes pieds, […] .
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