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Definition of Pageful
1. as much as a page can hold [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pageful
Literary usage of Pageful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (1886)
"At the instance of Mr. ELTON, the imperious clause above-mentioned had, however,
been altered in Committee by leaving out its pageful of subsections, ..."
2. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1893)
"... a pageful, all with their tops turned the wrong way, with a puzzled sense that
they were not right " somehow." But he observed in apology, ..."
3. History of English Literature by Henri Van Laun, Hippolyte Taine (1871)
"We pause stupefied before these convulsive metaphors, which might have been
written by a fevered hand in a night's delirium, which gather a pageful of ideas ..."
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