shopful

The painter was so touched by this first complaint that he ordered a shopful of toys to be brought to the studio the following day.

Strong as Death 2003

It would take a shopful of tools to readjust them, because readjusting them to their former power would violate Jinxian law.

Crashlander Niven, Larry 1994

It would take a shopful of tools to readjust them, because readjusting them to their former power would violate Jinxian law.

Neutron Star Niven, Larry 1969

It would take a shopful of tools to readjust them, because readjusting them to their former power would violate Jinxian law.

Neutron Star Niven, Larry 1968

Balzac an entire shopful of battered old volumes, out of date and worthless.

Honore de Balzac Albert Keim 1911

But even as he growled the doctor had taken down a lantern from a hook, thrown on a huge, battered fur coat that doubled his size, and was putting medicines -- a very shopful it seemed -- into a leather case.

The Hohenzollerns in America Stephen Leacock 1906

And all the English shopful is either brand new fiction or illustrated travel (of '_Buns with the Grand Lama_' type), or gilded versions of the classics of past times done up to give away.

Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought 1906

Nor did she mean to voice her wishes before a shopful of people who might consider them ambiguous.

The Wrong Twin Harry Leon Wilson 1903

God-forsaken parish on a Government job, and I happen on a whole shopful of ancient remains.

News from the Duchy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Newspaper readers will recall the story, told little more than a year ago, of a boy who after carrying beer a whole day for a shopful of men over on the East Side, where his father worked, crept into the cellar to sleep off the effects of his own share in the rioting.

XVIII. The Reign of Rum 1890