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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
Better than a shopful of toys they were to me!
From Authors and Friends by Fields, Annie
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
"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
I'm a British sailor, Sir; I come to your God-forsaken parish on a Government job, and I happen on a whole shopful of ancient remains.
From News from the Duchy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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 Goldberg, Isaac
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 Strunsky, Simeon
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