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Definition of Sackfuls
1. sackful [n] - See also: sackful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sackfuls
Literary usage of Sackfuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Turner by William Cosmo Monkhouse (1879)
"Thornbury was probably thinking of the destruction of the celebrated Mrs.
Trimmer's correspondence by her daughter, in which it is true that sackfuls of ..."
2. Turner by William Cosmo Monkhouse (1882)
"... that the Vicar's letters were burnt in sackfuls by his son. His large
correspondence was patiently gone through—a task which took some years. ..."
3. Memoir of a Mission to Gibralter and Spain: With Collateral Notices of by William Harris Hule (1844)
"We are angrily charged with having sent "sackfuls" into the neighbouring towns.
They have not been sent in sacks; but sacks might be filled with those sent, ..."
4. The Plundering of Cullen House by the Rebels: An Incident in the Rebellion (1887)
"PATRICK SMITH, SERVANT TO THE EARL OF FINDLATER IN THE GARDEN OF CULLEN, AGED 40
YEARS :— Deponent saw the rebels take out the two sackfuls of papers. ..."
5. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"The raw earth-ends were crawling and alive with hundreds upon hundreds of tiny
asses climbing out of the yawning borrow-pit below with sackfuls of stuff; ..."
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