Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Enough to fill a sheet; as much as a sheet can hold.
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- noun The amount that fits on a
sheet (any meaning)
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Examples
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Spectator papers, and a sheetful of such hints would naturally look like a "rhapsody of nonsense" to any one save the writer himself.
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Cecil Lawson, contributed a sheetful of initials and vignettes which dribbled forth in the paper up to 1876; and Mr.T. Walters, a half-a-dozen, up to 1875.
The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann
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Maker in the light of vulgarians; and a sheetful of specimens descended on Peter's head to warn him against the folly of finding any of God's creations common or unclean.
The Making of a Soul Kathlyn Rhodes
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I send him a sheetful to-morrow, I believe, and we are 'out' on the 1st of next month.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898
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I ought long ere this to have written you and my esteemed friend, Dr. Benfey, a letter of thanks, and to have sent your sheetful of questions back answered.
Letters Liszt, Franz 1893
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One sheet may be filled while baking another sheetful of cakes.
Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" Edith Matilda Thomas 1889
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Of cheese and butter we had a sufficient supply; and the yellow corn-meal which we had brought for the teams furnished sheetful after sheetful of johnny-cake, which Aunt Olive split, toasted, and buttered well, as a groundwork for the white monkey.
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I send him a sheetful to-morrow, I believe, and we are 'out' on the 1st of next month.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850
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But as the glimpse of A was not to be had, it was resolved to send for selection by himself glimpses of other letters of the alphabet, actual heads as well as fanciful ones; and the sheetful I sent out, which he returned when the choice was made, I here reproduce in fac-simile.
The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844
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Many thanks, dear Madam, for your sheetful of rhymes.
The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777
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