Lexicographical Neighbors of Penfuls
Literary usage of Penfuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The District School: Or National Education by John Orville Taylor (1835)
"The child carries it to school, but does not like it; and takes the liberty of
running to one of its neighbours to borrow its penfuls, as they may be ..."
2. Paris and the Social Revolution: A Study of the Revolutionary Elements in by Alvan Francis Sanborn (1905)
"... which they keep hidden away in the bottoms of their pockets, blacken their
clothes with penfuls of ink, whiten their shirt collars with billiard chalk, ..."
3. Topical Notes on American Authors by Lucy Tappan (1896)
"The Devil himself always gets into my inkstand, and I can only exorcise him by
penfuls at a time." " I sternly shut myself up, and come to close grip with ..."
4. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"... say from two to three penfuls of ink and a half sheet of note- paper per diem.
If any of our poetical contributions are presentable, the reader shall ..."
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