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Definition of Trayfuls
1. trayful [n] - See also: trayful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trayfuls
Literary usage of Trayfuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1882)
"... amongst gleaming tin- stuff, and trayfuls of cheap yellow and willow crockery.
Here is no elbowing, no crushing at the absolute threshold. ..."
2. The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the by Francis Edward Younghusband (1904)
"Fruit is brought before you in huge trayfuls, and wheat is cheaper than even in
India. In this way it is a land of extremes. On one side nothing—not the ..."
3. The Way of Martha and the Way of Mary by Stephen Graham (1916)
"... six hours and a half — our only other sustenance being occasional hot cabbage
pies brought to us in trayfuls by a little serving-boy from the kitchen. ..."
4. Photography for Students of Physics and Chemistry by Louis Derr (1913)
"This gives an image of exquisite gradation; its disadvantage is that it oxidizes
so rapidly that it can be used to develop only one or two trayfuls of ..."
5. My American Diary by Clare Sheridan (1922)
"Carrying our own trayfuls we retired to a little table. We talked until everyone
else had left, until men on step ladders re-arranged the flowers on their ..."
6. Life in Victoria: Or, Victoria in 1853, and Victoria in 1858, Showing the by William Kelly (1859)
"... overturning in trayfuls on the brandy-proof heads of the indifferent multitude.
"Whenever a man fell or retired, the gap was filled up like magic by a ..."
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