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Definition of Closetful
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Closetful
Literary usage of Closetful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life, Letters and Journals of George Ticknor by George Ticknor, Anna (Eliot) Ticknor (1909)
""When I went away," he said, "I thought it was a large library ; when I came
back, it seemed a closetful of books. ..."
2. Essays and Addresses: Religious, Literary and Social by Phillips Brooks (1894)
"But what gives us the strangest and the saddest feeling is that in the rich
luxuriant life of all our other nature this closetful is still as death. ..."
3. My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell (1998)
"... in practice it was clear to me by now that a whole thoroughly uninviting
closetful of psychological baggage would have to be sifted through before I ..."
4. Contributions to Literature: Descriptive, Critical, Humorous, Biographical by Samuel Gilman (1856)
"... I do not think he owned thirty theological books, nor more than that number
of any other kind, except a small closetful of the pamphlets of forty years, ..."
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