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Definition of Stageful
1. as much or as many as a stage can hold [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stageful
Literary usage of Stageful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Wit and Humor by Joel Chandler Harris (1907)
"Well, there was nine 'insiders,' and I don't believe there ever was a stageful
of Christians ever started before so chuck-full of music. ..."
2. The Pianoforte and Its Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel (1911)
"... La Seduisante; an Olympian stageful of mythological creatures: Sylvains,
Bacchantes, Graces, Corybantes, Diane, Terpsichore, Hymen, Amor. ..."
3. The Pianoforte and Its Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel (1911)
"... La Seduisante; an Olympian stageful of mythological creatures: Sylvains,
Bacchantes, Graces, Corybantes, Diane, Terpsichore, Hymen, Amor. ..."
4. Mr. George Jean Nathan Presents by George Jean Nathan (1917)
"There was from this stageful of blackamoors something of the violin, the
alto-saxophone, something of the muffled drum, the harp, something even of the ..."
5. On the Border with Crook by John Gregory Bourke (1892)
"... struck at the beginning of winter and upon a band which had causelessly
slaughtered a stageful of our best people, not as an act of war, ..."
6. On the Border with Crook by John Gregory Bourke (1891)
"It was a terrible blow, struck at the beginning of winter and upon a band which
had causelessly slaughtered a stageful of our best people, not as an act of ..."
7. The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in by Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1870)
"... which is created in the minds of a stageful of in- sides, by new-comers entering
at an inhuman hour, with a proposition to re-sort their heads and legs. ..."
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