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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 Charles James Lever
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
"It was like you, Ben, when you did remember, to bring me the whole shopful."
From The Romance of a Plain Man by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
A shopful of jewelry could not compare to him.
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
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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