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a load of something

much of something. She's a good student and has a load of friends.

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It was not the new panic amidships that froze my marrow; it was not that the pinnace hung perpendicularly by the fore-tackle, and had shot out those who had swarmed aboard her before she was lowered, as a cart shoots a load of bricks. Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context He could conceive of men going very insignificantly about the world bearing a load of courage unseen, and although he had known many of his comrades through boyhood, he be- gan to fear that his judgment of them had been blind. The Red Badge of Courage by Crane, Stephen View in context At least I am, and nearly twenty years had elapsed, and here was I burdened under a load of affection, like a sack of returned love-letters, with no lap into which to dump them. The Little White Bird by Barrie, James Matthew View in context More results

References in classic literature

It was not the new panic amidships that froze my marrow; it was not that the pinnace hung perpendicularly by the fore-tackle, and had shot out those who had swarmed aboard her before she was lowered, as a cart shoots a load of bricks.

Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context

He could conceive of men going very insignificantly about the world bearing a load of courage unseen, and although he had known many of his comrades through boyhood, he be- gan to fear that his judgment of them had been blind.

The Red Badge of Courage by Crane, Stephen View in context

At least I am, and nearly twenty years had elapsed, and here was I burdened under a load of affection, like a sack of returned love-letters, with no lap into which to dump them.

The Little White Bird by Barrie, James Matthew View in context

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