quiverful
Britishnoun
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the amount that a quiver can hold
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literary a fair number or full complement
a quiverful of children
Example Sentences
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But it is an agricultural giant, home to 30m pigs and a quiverful of global brands.
From Economist ● Jan. 2, 2014
While Eden made temples with his hands and Bidault toyed with his left ear, Molotov let loose a quiverful of barbs at the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
On being asked the other day how he had contrived to maintain such a quiverful, he answered, "I've always managed to get along all right so far; I never wanted for vittals, sir, anyhow."
From A Cotswold Village by Gibbs, J. Arthur
A quiverful of musical arrows, quivering as they waited for the poetic muse—the fine frenzy, the seething imagination, the running ready fire—to launch them forth into the humming haunts and hearts of men.
From Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study by Leonard, Arthur Glyn
I started life with the usual quiverful of good qualities, but there's one I've lost, and I don't want it back again.
From The Cinema Murder by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
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