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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
The old fellow, quaked and cowered in his chair, and would indeed have given his whole shopful of better concocted medicines than this, to be out of this danger.
From The Dolliver Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nor did she mean to voice her wishes before a shopful of people who might consider them ambiguous.
From The Wrong Twin by Harry Leon Wilson
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 Dorothy Miller Richardson
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
As a rule they are shopfuls of costly masterpieces such as any multi-millionaire may have if he doesn't prefer horses or monkey dinners.
From The Patient Observer And His Friends by Simeon Strunsky
Trunks in every corner, enough to pack a house-full of things into, and silk dresses ... shopfuls of them!
From The Torrent Entre Naranjos by Isaac Goldberg
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