benchful

A benchful of elderly women in versions of shawl-and-coat-and-rubber-boots waited while Eva looked down the throat of a round little woman with steel teeth.

Wolves Eat Dogs Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 2004

"Jemmy; come and look -- here's a whole benchful accounted for at one swoop."

The Blue Pavilions Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Across the back of the booth stretched a benchful of sullen-looking creatures war-captives to be sold as slaves, native thralls, and two Northmen enslaved for debt.

The Thrall of Leif the Lucky 1893

They did not seem to know it, but walked slowly on without noticing: they were not aware of an occasional benchful of rather shabby young fellows who stared hard at the stylish girl and well-dressed young man talking together in such intense low tones, with rapid interchange of radiant glances.

April Hopes William Dean Howells 1878

Thereupon all arose, and stood in their places in silence for a moment; and then, in perfect order and silence, and with a kind of military precision, benchful after benchful of people walked softly out of the room.

The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation Charles Nordhoff 1865

The actual revolutionary team seems to be the Warriors, who really are just throwing a bunch of amorphously multitalented wings onto the court – which is to say they’re making good on Pat Riley’s (!) c. 1983 vision of the Future of Basketball, when he imagined a benchful of Magic Johnsons and Michael Coopers transcending predefined positions and roles – a team of LeBrons, basically.

Matthew Yglesias » Counterintuiting Suns-Spurs 2007