22 examples of houseful in sentences

Mrs. Kaufman, just like Ruby says, how you let a whole houseful of old hens rule this roost it's a shame!"

The beautiful house and grounds of Fairfields were at their disposal, and the gallant host and gentle hostess gave themselves up to the whims and wishes of the houseful of young people.

Conceive the feelings of Sir Samuel Baker's African friend, Katchiba, the rain-making chief, who possessed a whole houseful of thunder and lightningthough he did not, he confessed, keep it in a bottle as they do in Englandif Sir Samuel had had the means, and the will, of giving to Katchiba's Negros a course of lectures on electricity, with appropriate experiments, and a real bottle full of real lightning among the foremost.

But it is not very extraordinary at the best of times; and if even a preacher happened to have a complete houseful of children, if his quiver were absolutely full of them, he would not be pecuniarly rich.

"Yes, but you know how they livewhat dinners they haveand besides, they probably have a houseful of company.

All the principal items were mentioned by the faithful auctioneers; and the furniture, thus described, had a strange aspect of special importance, as if it had been subtly better, more solid, more desirable, than any other houseful of furniture in the town,Lessways' furniture!

He lived for years in the white cottage that Wordsworth once lived in, just behind the street yondera nice, neat, lile gentleman, in a houseful of books.

"She is desperate uneasy in her mind, poor lass, and as hard to live with as a houseful of mosquitoes, which it is lucky I haven't got, or I should be forced to drown myself to keep from going out of my mind.

" "I shall not know how to manage a houseful of servants," she said, with such a comical air of distress that he had to laugh again.

So Stella invaded the Abbey-Monohan precincts by herself and enjoyed itfor she met a houseful of young people from the coast, and in that light-hearted company she forgot for the time being that she was married and the responsible mistress of a house.

"I am so accustomed to superintend the transit of machines as cumbersome as trunks and as fragile as bonnet boxes, that the care of a houseful of ordinary luggage would be a mere amusement for me.

But it was urged upon her that the advantages of education offered were such as no money could purchase for me; that it would be a disadvantage for me to grow up in a houseful of boysand, in truth, I was as good a cricketer and climber as the best of themthat my mother would soon be obliged to send me to school, unless she accepted an offer which gave me every advantage of school without its disadvantages.

Dentistsa houseful of themspittoons, revolving basins; patients going upstairs with sinking feelings; wondering at the pattern on the wallpaper; going down triumphant.

You will be a very loving, devoted mother, and I hope this little one will only be the beginning of a houseful.

' 'I don't think I ever knew such a houseful of fools.'

The business was too good to be sacrificed, and the business was all his father had left behind him, with the exception of a houseful of handsome furniture, two or three carriages, and a couple of pairs of horses, which were sold by auction within a few weeks of the funeral.

I would never behave that way, and housefuls to fall into my hand.

R88643, 11Jan52, West Pub. Co. (PWH) DALY, THOMAS AUGUSTINE, SR. Herself and the houseful; illustrated by John Daly.

R88643, 11Jan52, West Pub. Co. (PWH) DALY, THOMAS AUGUSTINE, SR. Herself and the houseful; illustrated by John Daly.

But it was urged upon her that the advantages of education offered were such as no money could purchase for me; that it would be a disadvantage for me to grow up in a houseful of boysand, in truth, I was as good a cricketer and climber as the best of themthat my mother would soon be obliged to send me to school, unless she accepted an offer which gave me every advantage of school without its disadvantages.

Ladies are scarce; and any thing almost would be better than a houseful of half-ladies.

It felt like coming back to an old friend's house for a quiet talk after he had got rid of a houseful of visitors.

22 examples of  houseful  in sentences