Example Sentences

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Local swains were asking as much as $1,300 in British gold sovereigns* in addition to housefuls of fathers' furniture as the price of their devotion.

From Time Magazine Archive

For in the spring a kind Providence sent in the Muirs and the Bremans with housefuls of children, to the ranchers' disgust, for they foresaw ploughed fields and barbed-wire fences cramping their unlimited ranges.

From The Sky Pilot, a Tale of the Foothills by Connor, Ralph

I would never behave that way, and housefuls to fall into my hand.

From New Irish Comedies by Gregory, Lady