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Definition of Chestful
1. as much as a chest or box can hold [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chestful
Literary usage of Chestful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Decided in the Circuit Courts of the United States for the by Robert William Hughes (1880)
"... Sunday afternoon, and I said "they were more of men than I thought," I little
thought they had a chest almost full of arms; I don't say a chestful, ..."
2. The Court of Charles II, 1649-1734 by Henri Forneron (1897)
"... a chest of chocolate, a large chestful of Greek currants, wax candles, a large
chestful of spices, including cloves, mace, ginger, nutmeg, and cinnamon. ..."
3. Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, 1649-1734: Or, How the Duke of by Henri Forneron (1887)
"... a chest of chocolate, a large chestful of Greek currants, wax candles, a large
chestful of spices, including cloves, mace, ginger, nutmeg, and cinnamon. ..."
4. Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana (1897)
"The medicines were all, or nearly all, gone, and if we had had a chestful, they
would have been of no use, for nothing but fresh provisions and terra firm a ..."
5. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"... sent a whole chestful of incriminating documents to the Senate for investigation,
and the Senate promptly destroyed them all. ..."
6. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"... a whole chestful of incriminating documents to the Senate for investigation,
and the Senate promptly destroyed them all. ..."
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