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Definition of Armloads
1. armload [n] - See also: armload
Lexicographical Neighbors of Armloads
Literary usage of Armloads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. In Foreign Fields: Sketches of Travel in South America and Western Europe by Joseph Elwyn Wing (1913)
"Our carriages were drawn by sedate Percheron horses that walked slowly up the
hills; we sprang out and gathered armloads of flowers and took them with us. ..."
2. Transactions by Massachusetts Horticultural Society (1899)
"... reserved for the parents, who come there to promenade and enjoy the sight as
well as to encourage their children and help them carry off the armloads of ..."
3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"... to allow stooping to the lower shelf, or carrying armloads of books. The railing
should be of light ironwork, waist high, and from the top rail ..."
4. Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs and Reading Groups by Harvey Daniels (2002)
"... garage sales, and used-book shops, carrying armloads of books to school.
We built our libraries and kids started reading more real books. ..."
5. The American Country Girl by Martha Foote Crow (1915)
"Every Sunday when she went to church she would take armloads of flowers to give
away; and if any one wanted plants or bulbs she brought them on request. ..."
6. Putnam's Magazine (1909)
"The girls had not come in yet from the pasture with their armloads of goldenrod
and wild aster; but all three of the Hands sisters— good, faithful souls, ..."
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