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- noun An amount sufficient to fill a
garden .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A gardenful of cats came and told him that his hopes were vain.
This Is the End Stella Benson 1912
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"A dead flower from your hand, Miss L'Estrange," he observed "is worth a whole gardenful of living ones from any one else."
Wife in Name Only Charlotte M. Brame 1860
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But I have excited your curiosity, and I see that you are impatient to hear what the wisdom, or the folly, it may be, of a life shows for, when it is crowded into a few lines as the fragrance of a gardenful of roses is concentrated in a few drops of perfume.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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But I have excited your curiosity, and I see that you are impatient to hear what the wisdom, or the folly, it may be, of a life shows for, when it is crowded into a few lines as the fragrance of a gardenful of roses is concentrated in a few drops of perfume.
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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"Dear Muse, for whom bringest thou this gardenful of song, or who is he that fashioned the garland of poets?
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902
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