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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
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 Sidney, Margaret
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
Of the doctor so gentle, The other sick boys, And oh! a whole shopful Of beautiful toys!
From London Town by Crane, Thomas
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
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
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