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I would rather have a streetful of Gurkha families than one Wayne and Waynetta menage a trois, quattre, cinq, ad nauseum, wreaking havoc in the community and being a general drain on resources and morale.

You Couldn’t Make It Up « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

Indeed, the image that often comes foremost to mind when considering absinthe is a streetful of dissipated Parisian intellectuals, some of whom sunk into poverty and madness by dancing a bit too closely with the Green Fairy.

Boing Boing 2009

This is simply the old notion that a streetful of cars carries about the same number of people as one bus.

“Parking restrictions will fail in their aim” Harvey Enchin « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

This is simply the old notion that a streetful of cars carries about the same number of people as one bus.

16 « June « 2009 « Stephen Rees’s blog 2009

Why am I the only person sitting in this entire streetful of slickly interior-designed restaurants?

What exactly is so great about the north? Alix Mortimer 2008

Why am I the only person sitting in this entire streetful of slickly interior-designed restaurants?

Actually, there IS something else… Alix Mortimer 2008

Take any streetful of people buying clothes and groceries, cheering a hero or throwing confetti and blowing tin horns … tell me if the lovers are losers … tell me if any get more than the lovers … in the dust … in the cool tombs.

Cool Tombs 1918

He gave me the benefit of his full seventy three inches and told me no, that he would think shame of himself if he could not keep his head with his hands from a streetful of such scum.

A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 William MacLeod Raine 1912

There existed in that light and that shadow, a complete little new and old world, comic and sad, juvenile and senile, which was rubbing its eyes; nothing resembles an awakening like a return; a group which regarded France with ill-temper, and which France regarded with irony; good old owls of marquises by the streetful, who had returned, and of ghosts, the

Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

There existed in that light and that shadow, a complete little new and old world, comic and sad, juvenile and senile, which was rubbing its eyes; nothing resembles an awakening like a return; a group which regarded France with ill-temper, and which France regarded with irony; good old owls of marquises by the streetful, who had returned, and of ghosts, the “former” subjects of amazement at everything, brave and noble gentlemen who smiled at being in

Les Miserables 2008