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Definition of Earfuls
1. earful [n] - See also: earful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earfuls
Literary usage of Earfuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nineteenth Century Letters by Byron Johnson Rees (1919)
"So the rain let me get back dry from the beach, whither I had gone for a whiff
of salt air and a few earfuls of that muffled crash of the surf which is so ..."
2. The Heart of Japan: Glimpses of Life and Nature Far from the Travellers by Clarence Ludlow Brownell (1903)
"O uta utau nasai" should be translated " Bring me two earfuls of cotton."
With your ears well stuffed you may listen to gaku without going mad. ..."
3. Twentieth Century Practice: An International Encyclopedia of Modern Medical by Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1895)
"The seed vessel is formed of three or five earfuls, somewhat diverging, containing
numerous angular, wrinkled seeds. The leaves are palmately divided into ..."
4. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1888)
"... a natural cubic centimeter table; thus : so many earfuls make a mouthful, so
many mouthfuls make a bellyful, etc. Something Like Simulation. ..."
5. Letters of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904)
"... whither I had gone for a whiff" of salt air and a few earfuls of that muffled
crash of the surf which is so soothing— perpetual ruin with perpetual ..."
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