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Definition of Barrelsful
1. barrelful [n] - See also: barrelful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barrelsful
Literary usage of Barrelsful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1918)
"... barrelsful, and other moulded forms of water. Even were the pails and the pots
all actually standing in the stream, still between them the free water ..."
2. The Dangerous classes of New York and twenty years' work among them by Charles Loring Brace (1872)
"Here are also the water-vats, into which the many barrelsful used daily are pumped
by the engine. The rooms are high and dry, and the floors clean. ..."
3. Psychology by William James (1893)
"... barrelsful, and other moulded forms of water. Even were the pails and the pots
all actually standing in the stream, still between them the free water ..."
4. A Manual of Psychology by George Frederick Stout (1915)
"... barrelsful, and other moulded forms of water. Even were the pails and the pots
all actually standing in the stream, still between them the free water ..."
5. The New England Magazine by Making of America Project (1886)
"... the heavens opened, or at least we thought they had, and six pieces of artillery
sent their compliments in the shape of so many barrelsful of grape. ..."
6. A Collection of Occasional Surveys of Iron, Coal and Oil Districts in the by J. Peter Lesley (1874)
"It was allowed to flow off into the ocean of forgetfulness, as the oil itself
was allowed at first to flow by thousands of barrelsful per day into the Gulf ..."
7. The Town Child by Reginald Arthur Bray (1907)
"... barrelsful, and other moulded forms of water. Even were the pails and the pots
all actually standing in the stream, still between them the free water ..."
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