There was something of national character in their love of order and cleanliness; in the vigilance with which they watched over the economy of the kitchen, and the functions of the servants; munificently rewarding, with silver sixpence in shoe, the tidy housemaid, but venting their direful wrath, in midnight bobs and pinches, upon the sluttish dairymaid.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Who will munificently enrich us, for the wish of the Mahdi is sacred.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Only once was her passionate attention distracted, and that was when Pete in passing gave her an emphatic nudge and a friendly grin as he munificently bestowed upon her a package of gum.
"Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley"
Belle K. Maniates