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Definition of Housefuls
1. houseful [n] - See also: houseful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Housefuls
Literary usage of Housefuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... of analysis of motives in Emma and the wonderful management of two housefuls
of young lovers that is exhibited in ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"... were not to be counted, they are so many, and there are three great housefuls
placed in rows, and so like one another, that no one can distinguish them. ..."
3. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1898)
"We had a pleasant little dinner-party at the Vicarage last week : just our two
housefuls, and, if you please, Mrs. Tallis, and a niece who is staying with ..."
4. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"... her last Letter was so full of nonsense about her "servants," and "country
house," and "housefuls of visitors," that I had not patience to answer it. ..."
5. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"I have heard nothing from the said Helen for a long while; her last Letter was
so full of nonsense about her "servants," and "country house," and "housefuls ..."
6. Old Deccan Days: Or, Hindoo Fairy Legends Current in Southern India by Mary Frere, Bartle Frere (1898)
"And so saying she gave to the Rajah five Rakshas' bundles of rich hangings and
garments covered with jewels (that is to say, five housefuls of costly things ..."
7. The Way of Martha and the Way of Mary by Stephen Graham (1916)
"pilgrims where the great ones have their hundreds and their housefuls. It has
been said that with an Englishman the conversation always, sooner or later, ..."
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