If they got skinned alive, and if Marchand was handed over to a barnful of hungry rats to be gnawed to death, it wouldn't help.
"The World For Sale, Volume 2."
Gilbert Parker
I cannot imagine what any one would do with a barnful of Lycoperdons.
"Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy"
Frank Richard Stockton
The toot of the horn sent the whole barnful streaming into the house like a flock of hungry chickens, where, by some process known only to the mothers of large families, every one was wedged close about the table, and the feast began.
"Moods"
Louisa May Alcott