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Meanings of whole basketful in English

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Usage of whole basketful in English
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There is a whole basketful there now, waiting for you to iron.
Miss Dexie / A Romance of the Provinces
2
Here it is, a whole basketful of the grace of God, sir!
The Eternal City
3
Shame upon our ancestors-we'llgather them ourselves, and frank a whole basketful to Europe.
The Works of Frederick Schiller
4
He showed me a whole basketful of your watches.
The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days
5
She brought everything-meat ,jelly ,wine ,andbread-a whole basketful!
Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates
6
It took skill, courage, experience, and a whole basketful of that most precious of commodities, luck.
Ilse Witch
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We've left a whole basketful in the dairy.
Ruth
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Wallace was contented to allow them a part of the trouts, but he refused to part with the whole basketful.
Types of Children's Literature / A Collection of the World's Bes...
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The children often came with a whole basketful, or with a string of berries which they had strung on a straw.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
10
Leaning closer, he whispered, hoarsely: It is cheaper to give him a fish than to have him steal a whole basketful.
Rainbow's End
11
Then Hugh went to Rite Aid to fill his prescriptions and buy a whole basketful of paraphernalia, and drove home in a daze.
Seeing stars
12
He said that when it took a whole basketful of sesquipedalian adjectives to whoop up a thing of beauty, it was time for suspicion.
The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories
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The reply trenched on philosophy; and consisted in an inquiry as to who cared for the whole basketful-ofthe like description of damsels, being implied.
Vittoria — Volume 2
14
"Oh, mamma!" she cried, "let us buy the whole basketful.
Fruitfulness
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