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- noun Plural form of
armful .
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Examples
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And the women gathered the swarf by armfuls, spun bants of straw and tied in armfuls into sheaves, stacked sheaves into kivvers.
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Anyone else remember Crackerjack and the quiz where you got to stand on a drum and win armfuls of prizes and a cabbage if you dropped anything, but then the ultimate accolade, a Crackerjack pencil.
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Anyone else remember Crackerjack and the quiz where you got to stand on a drum and win armfuls of prizes and a cabbage if you dropped anything, but then the ultimate accolade, a Crackerjack pencil.
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Anyone else remember Crackerjack and the quiz where you got to stand on a drum and win armfuls of prizes and a cabbage if you dropped anything, but then the ultimate accolade, a Crackerjack pencil.
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Arriving at the church - sorry, worship centre - I was welcomed into a cavernous modern atrium by a model-pretty hostess bearing glad tidings and armfuls of Christmas candy.
Christopher Price: Australian Idolatry: Evangelical Christians Resurrecting the Music Industry
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He even went into the woods and scooped armfuls of last year's fallen leaves which he scattered over the slide.
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He scented the mares and stopped short, head flung up and armfuls of creamy mane tossing in the breeze.
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Some had collected mounds of rubble to use against the police, others had armfuls of goods they had taken from looted shops.
London riots: conflagration and carnage in the capital and beyond
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"Yes," said I; "how the poor city folk will envy when they come to see us, and how we will make all well again when we send them off with great golden armfuls!"
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It was too early for the crowd, but bricklayers and their families, laden with huge lunch-baskets and armfuls of babies, were already going in -- a healthy, husky race of workmen, well-paid and robustly fed.
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