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quiverful

/ ˈkwɪvəfʊl /

noun

  1. the amount that a quiver can hold

  2. literary,  a fair number or full complement

    a quiverful of children

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Another article claims they are believed to be adherents to a fundamental faith called "Quiverful" which directs that sex is only for procreation and families must seek to have as many children as God will give them.

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She comes and goes, she folds her cloak around her and vanishes, having shot into her victim’s heart a quiverful of teasing arrows.”

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Even the condition of Trollope’s curates, like poor Mr. Quiverful, is exactly reproduced by those long-term adjuncts who teach semester to semester and live contract to contract.

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But it is an agricultural giant, home to 30m pigs and a quiverful of global brands.

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I was armed with my long Indian blow-pipe and a quiverful of darts.

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