Here was a whole houseful of charming women all ready to pet him and make much of him; and in their society he would be at home, dealing with things with which he was familiar.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
This friend of Popes and of many of the European rulers was the happy father of a houseful of members of religious orders, and considered himself blest that so many of them had chosen the better part.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
You don't seem to know, Norcott, that you 've got a houseful of the most insolent servants in Christendom.
"That Boy Of Norcott's"
Charles James Lever