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parcel
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Definition:3. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Pox! the world is come to a fine pass indeed, if we are all fools, except a parcel of round-heads and Hanover rats.
Henry Fielding. History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Fair maid, send forth thine eye. This youthful parcel
Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing,
William Shakespeare. Alls Well That Ends Well (1603)
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'why should I trouble myself, that a parcel of heavy-headed fellows may gape and hold up their hands? Let them do it at some other man. There's fame for him, and he's welcome to it.'
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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For Tolstóy each battle is an affair of contingencies so numerous and so complexly related that no one mind or group of minds can foresee them. Therefore, military experts are to him a parcel of fools.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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And not sell out the rest o' the property? March off like a passel of fools and leave eight or nine thous'n' dollars' worth o' property layin' around jest sufferin' to be scooped in?
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“I hope they take after their mother,” Augustus said. “If they take after you you’re in for a passel of old maids.”
Larry McMurtry. Lonesome Dove (1985)
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