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- noun As much as a
sleigh will hold.
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Examples
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Each guest carried a pretty basket filled with gifts from the host and hostess, and it was nearly eleven before the last load was off, with the sleighful of young folks to keep it company.
Polly and the Princess Emma C. Dowd
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Had the whole sleighful been suddenly plunged into a hundred cubic feet of hydrogen gas, sound could not have ceased more abruptly for one second, and then there arose to the thousands of little laughing stars and their dignified mother, the moon, a howl which made the welkin ring.
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A half-hour later, Livingstone, after another interview with Mr. Brown who was awaiting him patiently, drove back again to Mr. Clark's door with another sleighful of packages which were all duly transferred to the small room where stood the little Christmas-tree.
Santa Claus's Partner Thomas Nelson Page 1887
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And I want to thank the folks at MamaBargains. com for their GENEROUS contribution to the sleighful of prizes from Today's Mama!
Jenny On the Spot: Caffeinated mom, lover of dancing, glitter and glitter. jenny 2010
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We've compiled a sleighful here and tried to sort them out.
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We've compiled a sleighful here and tried to sort them out.
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We've compiled a sleighful here and tried to sort them out.
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Three days, 1,250 miles and an uncommon snowstorm later, they arrived in Galveston and delivered their sleighful of kindness at Weis Middle School, where Central's students have been sharing space since the hurricane.
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If he'd simply made some rootsy, Dad-rock holiday album it would have merely been dull, but when he inexplicably decided to fulfill his completely unironic desire to be the Pat Boone of singer/songwriters for an entire album, Dylan found a whole sleighful of new ways to spell "fail."
offBeat 2009
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Reading that, you can almost feel the self-satisfaction that accompanies writing "Dad-rock" and "sleighful of new ways to spell 'fail'."
offBeat 2009
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