Blockful

He dragged his eyes away from a blockful of dying embers and looked at the sky.

For the progressive divine, there are likely to be valley towns with sewerage system and police patrol, and adjacent small cities with their blocksful of souls in need of salvation, not to mention talking pictures, Rotary Clubs, and vaudeville.

The trends were clear enough, more handsome cooperatives marching along the lake shore, apartments by the blockful, ornate hives designed to accommodate the growing density of the city.

Three or four blockfuls of New Yorkers could pay their water bills on the interest of what he spent.