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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 painter was so touched by this first complaint that he ordered a shopful of toys to be brought to the studio the following day.
From Strong as Death by Guy de Maupassant
I told her not to bother her head about it, that when we got to New York, or even to Cincinnati or Louisville, I would buy her a whole shopful of dresses.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
"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 Margaret Sidney
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
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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