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  • It simply points out that some folks who can buy a rackful without blinking probably will not.

    What to Do With Your Gift From George W. 2008

  • Then he calmly took the key, as if the place were his, gave his horse a rackful of long-cut grass, and presented himself, with a lordly aspect, at the front door of the silent inn.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • There was lots for sale: sacks of cookies, cans of motor oil, glass unicorns, bronze western statues, a rackful of books by Louis L'Amour, stacks of trucker logbooks.

    Willie Nelson, Willie & Shrake, Edwin Bud 1992

  • A fine roan heifer was nibbling casually at a rackful of hay while a strapping calf sucked at her udder.

    Every living thing Herriot, James 1992

  • When he had finished talking, Kuroki put the long tube of a rocket gun and a rackful of shells on his own back.

    Explorations ANDERSON, Poul 1981

  • There was a scarred and battered and ancient billiard-table in the garret, and along with it a peck of checked and chipped balls, and a rackful of crooked and headless cues.

    Chapters from My Autobiography Mark Twain 1872

  • Then he calmly took the key, as if the place were his, gave his horse a rackful of long-cut grass, and presented himself, with a lordly aspect, at the front door of the silent inn.

    Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale 1862

  • With the haste of a double-fee'd hostler did Julian exchange the equipments of his jaded brute with poor Dobbin, who stood quietly tugging at his rackful of hay, without dreaming of the business which was that night destined for him.

    Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801

  • "The notion we have is: Could you replace potentially a rackful of equipment today with one or a very small number of these high core-count processors?" he said.

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  • With the haste of a double-fee’d hostler did Julian exchange the equipments of his jaded brute with poor Dobbin, who stood quietly tugging at his rackful of hay, without dreaming of the business which was that night destined for him.

    Peveril of the Peak 1822

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