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Definition of Pursefuls
1. purseful [n] - See also: purseful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pursefuls
Literary usage of Pursefuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1844)
"The unthrifty, who had flung about pursefuls of those bits of tin, began to hoard
the new issue of the Mint, as having more significance. ..."
2. Art Decoration Applied to Furniture by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1878)
"... pelisses, rings, cups of silver, and goblets of gold 2 Well, then, I must have
pursefuls of jewels, knives covered with carving, pins set in enamel, ..."
3. Sketches of Hindoo Life by Devendra Nath Das (1887)
"We carry with us offerings consisting of rice, ghee or clarified butter, grain,
flowers, water, *etc., and pursefuls of money. We enter through the narrow ..."
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