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The jolt splintered the ice and sent glass-covered limbs clattering to earth like a shopful of shattering crystal.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
And oh, take my word for it, when a sacrifice has n't cost you a coach-load of regrets and a shopful of hesitations about making it, it is of little worth.
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James
Here she sat, in the little enclosure of this upper room above a shopful of strange Delikatessen, securely adrift.
From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Richardson, Dorothy Miller
"Only don't blame me, my good Candace," said Grandpapa, laughing, whom the uproar had drawn out of his writing room, "if that monkey eats up all your shopful."
From Ben Pepper by Sidney, Margaret
If a cannon had been fired close to her ear, or a shopful of glass had been broken, she could not have been more alarmed.
From The Animal Story Book by Various
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