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Definition of Gardenful
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gardenful
Literary usage of Gardenful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Muse,— ay, whose voice is powerful indeed, Since in the first-come brain it makes
to grow Thick as some dusty yellow roadside weed, A gardenful of poems ..."
2. The Poet at the Breakfast-table: He Talks with His Fellow-boarders and the by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1891)
"... a few lines as the fragrance of a gardenful of roses is concentrated in a few
drops of perfume. — By this time I confess I was myself a little excited. ..."
3. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"Professors of derivation carry us back to Grecian ages to explain how the term
dimity arose, declaring, on the authority of a whole gardenful of roots, ..."
4. Spiritual Magazine (1866)
"The interpreter is undoubtedly obscure, and to a hasty reader will seem to have
eaten a whole Covent-gardenful of insane roots, but of his honesty, zeal, ..."
5. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1912)
"That gardenful of croaking frogs seemed to mock us, to threaten our peace of mind
and the harmony of our holiday. " It isn't much fun " I began testily, ..."
6. The Book Buyer by Charles Scribner's Sons (1899)
"... which had seemed a very hardy growth, shrivels up and dies, together with a
whole gardenful of pretty little hopes which had sprung up around it. ..."
7. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Muse,— ay, whose voice is powerful indeed, Since in the first-come brain it makes
to grow Thick as some dusty yellow roadside weed, A gardenful of poems ..."
8. The Poet at the Breakfast-table: He Talks with His Fellow-boarders and the by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1891)
"... a few lines as the fragrance of a gardenful of roses is concentrated in a few
drops of perfume. — By this time I confess I was myself a little excited. ..."
9. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"Professors of derivation carry us back to Grecian ages to explain how the term
dimity arose, declaring, on the authority of a whole gardenful of roots, ..."
10. Spiritual Magazine (1866)
"The interpreter is undoubtedly obscure, and to a hasty reader will seem to have
eaten a whole Covent-gardenful of insane roots, but of his honesty, zeal, ..."
11. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1912)
"That gardenful of croaking frogs seemed to mock us, to threaten our peace of mind
and the harmony of our holiday. " It isn't much fun " I began testily, ..."
12. The Book Buyer by Charles Scribner's Sons (1899)
"... which had seemed a very hardy growth, shrivels up and dies, together with a
whole gardenful of pretty little hopes which had sprung up around it. ..."
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