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Definition of Pocketsful
1. pocketful [n] - See also: pocketful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pocketsful
Literary usage of Pocketsful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"Open the sack, then you shall be my sweetest of mothers, and I will give you two
pocketsful of tea, green and fresh as I plucked it at the place where it ..."
2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1855)
"... its estates will be gradually purchased, the original occupants will be sent
away from their homesteads with pocketsful of money—which they will soon ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1855)
"... its estates will be gradually purchased, the original occupants will be sent
away from their homesteads with pocketsful of money—which they will soon ..."
4. The Ladies of the White House; Or, In the Home of the Presidents: Being a by Laura Carter Holloway (1881)
"... only solaced by the regular arrival of fatherly letters from her uncle, or by
an occasional frolic out of doors—to say nothing of pocketsful of crackers ..."
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