Why, a body 'd think that he 'd been married an' raised a whole houseful o' childern.
I wish I could do something for her, but, with my houseful of children, I've got use for every penny I can rake and scrape.
But a houseful of buzzing visitors swarming through it--whew!
You can imagine the welcome relief of being able to go about saying and doing perfectly exasperating things to a whole houseful of women--and all in the cause of peace.
Of course, I had been through something of the sort in previous floods, but never before had I had a houseful of goats and babies and half-drowned hens, supplemented by a Bishop with whom I was hardly on speaking terms.
Sheep tie a person down like a houseful of children.
I am convinced that there never has been or could be a houseful of people who hear or use fouler and more unremitting obscenities than are those which flow sewer-wise and unhindered from the lips of many of this population.
She had no relative nearer than an uncle, who had a houseful of children of his own, so that Nora's absence must be a relief in a manner of speaking; and my grandmother never refused me anything in reason.
I was glad my godmother was not there to hear, lest it should hurt her, for she loved children and ought to have been the mother of a houseful of them.
How, in a houseful of noises, distinguish the summons he felt to be at hand?
How, in a houseful of shadows, should he know his own Shadow?
The dusty ROOMS FOR RENT sign was tucked into the front window with its usual regularity, for do what she could, Mrs. Clark could not attain that pinnacle of the landlady's aspirations, a houseful of permanent roomers.
There were men-servants of different nationalities, ladies' maids, and a houseful of guests coming and going as in a private hotel.
I am too big, as you call it, for a houseful of women!
Mr. Smalley was inclined to pooh-pooh the whole affair as the imagination of a houseful of women.
They were much surprised at the houseful of company and very glad to see Mr. and Mrs. Evans, who were very good friends of the Winnebagos indeed.
But no sooner had the Mitchells departed than the new caretakers had come; and they were a much bigger houseful than the others.
It amused them to see Tom and Calvin parading the front lawn armed with bird guns, swelled up with importance at having to guard a houseful of women.
I was one of a big family--such a lot of sisters that people used to call us `the houseful of girls,' and I was the most mischievous of all.
Besides, I'm a soldier; my life has been spent among men; I haven't the pluck to face a houseful of women.
Not a word about the demoralization of her houseful of servants, whose ill-concealed wrath and dismay were smouldering over the infliction of Elvira.
And quicker than it takes to write it, the whole houseful knew where Jocko's new home was to be, and everybody thronged around the happy old black woman.
We cannot offer you the numerous attractions of Hale Castle, but we have good shooting, and we generally have a houseful in September and October.
I shall have a houseful of people in a week or two, and you shall have a peep at the gay world.
I am not going to make myself ridiculous by marrying a houseful of kids for whom my husband is the nurse.
Not far from Yampele, about three versts away, some robbers fell upon a Jewish tavern, killed a wholehouseful of people, down to a baby in a cradle.
Thus he became a great favourite with the King, who listened with deep interest to his descriptions of the houseful of beads and buttons to be earned in England by a little proper management of Tuloo's magic dust.
Sooner or later it would have to be fought out (like a feud between two nations), with a houseful of loss and woe to either side, but a thimbleful of pride and glory.
To-morrow you will receive a houseful of company; more than Hartledon will hold.
That is the way people arrive in the country; and a whole houseful to stay over night does not startle the hostess as an unexpected guest to dinner may a city one.
She had other worries, those connected with a houseful of boarders, and these were quite sufficient.
It's too much for you, the responsibility of handlin' this big house and a houseful of boarders when they come.
My father and I would not want a houseful of servants if we didn't mean to have a houseful of people.
But what were you to do with a houseful of girls, when one would have served to give you all the help you need, mother, in your housekeeping and the company you see?
She had been further nettled by the slighting reflection on a houseful of girls, made by one of themselves, while she, their mother, the author of their being, poor unsophisticated woman!
She has outlived her husband, a houseful of girls and her ill-health is chiefly the result of years of watching by their sick-beds, and grief at their loss.
But you take a whole houseful upon you at once, and I am sure it is too much for you.
I have got enough fun in me to keep a houseful merry.
Lady de Courcy at any rate understood how to receive and entertain a houseful of people, though the practice of doing so might give rise to difficult questions in the privacy of her domestic relations.
Margaretta and Alexandrina particularly want you to come, as they say you are so clever at making a houseful of people go off well.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "houseful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
