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Definition of Boxfuls
1. boxful [n] - See also: boxful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boxfuls
Literary usage of Boxfuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"Many snuff-boxfuls were thrown out of Krakatoa. Moreover, the dust-particles may
be very sparsely scattered ; the miles of air through which they are spread ..."
2. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... Universal Medicine, antl whole boxfuls of Parr's Life Pills. Übe bas cured a
multi])licity of headaches by ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1870)
"... antique contents, at the mercy of the gravedigger's family, or any other that
could obtain access to them. The parchments were carried off in boxfuls, ..."
4. Japan: Travels and Researches Undertaken at the Cost of the Prussian Government by Johannes Justus Rein (1884)
"In use (before Japanese words only) they lose the final syllable " tsu," eg futa
hako, two boxfuls. The following table shows that the highest unit of the ..."
5. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883)
"I was tumbling two boxfuls of my papers into one large box, when the desire took
me to look into my fathers day-book, which I had never opened since it came ..."
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