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armfull (複数形 armfulls または armsfull)
- Obsolete spelling of armful
- 1834, Trial of John R. Buzzell, the Leader of the Convent Rioters, for Arson and Burglary, Boston: Lemuel Gulliver, page 11:
- They then brought up a part of the board fence of the Convent lands, the fence wood was laid on the tar barrels, to make a bonfire, to raise an alarm of fire, and collect a greater number of people, there was a steady stream of people coming up with armsfull of the fence to feed the bonfire, I have no doubt that the tall man I saw is the prisoner at the bar.
- 1848, United States Congressional Serial Set Volume 525: House of Representatives. Report No. 350., page 2:
- Therefore the Secretary of War (I remember he was a little man) went and fetched a large armfull of books, and looked, and did not find my father’s name; he went and fetched another armfull of books, and soon found my father’s name, and said if I was the only heir of my father, I could get the land.
- 1857, Head, Francis Bond, Descriptive Essays Contributed to the Quarterly Review, volume II, London: John Murray, page 297:
- While this interesting operation is proceeding, red postmen in waiting are carrying off in armfulls all approved letters to two other tables, at which, if possible with still greater celerity, their stamps are obliterated by the right-hands of twenty stampers, who from long practice in their regicidal duty can destroy from 6000 to 7000 Queen’s heads in an hour, or, for a short time, 140 per minute!
- 1859, Wylie, Mrs. Macleod, The Gospel in Burmah, page 324:
- “‘Just so. The world is God’s garden, and the people His flowers: white and yellow.’ But Mahnaht (the devil) comes in with his legion, and pulls them here—there—armfull after armfull, saying I’ll have all the red, and all the yellow, to keep my fires burning. But God says, “No! You shall not destroy my flowers.”’
- 1873, Grote, Harriet, The Personal Life of George Grote., second edition, London: John Murray, page 120–121:
- Mrs. Grote to Sir William Molesworth, Bart., M.P. / Solothurn, 13th August, 1837. / […] “Mousing” in the “Buchhandlerungen” is the great pastime, lugging away armsfull of stuff to cram the carriage withal, to the dismay of poor “Henry,” who is at his wits’ end how to stow the same so as to leave room for “Mistress” to get in.
- 1878, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Dissolving Views”, in Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives, New York, N.Y.: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, OCLC 227701012, pages 8–9:
- Oh, Nabby, Nabby! do tell me what they are doing up at your church. I’ve seen ’em all day carrying armfulls and armfulls—ever so much—spruce and pine up that way, and Jim Brace and Tom Peters told me they were going to have a ’lumination there, and when I asked what a ’lumination was they only laughed at me and called me a Presbyterian.
- 1905, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers, page 318:
- These little tenters are allowed to roam through the mill to collect the empty bobbins, carrying them in armfulls coming down the steps.
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