Buildingful

You could see a whole buildingful for one franc at the Great Exhibition in Paris that very summer; and even if the new Paris Guide had been composed by literary masters, the crowds behaved childishly, possessively, destructively.

When they'd arrived the night before in the pitch black after Lights Out, Gwen had taken one breath of the barracks' odor—that fluid, murky smell of a buildingful of women at close quarters—and dread had spread inside her.

When you're a seventeen year-old full of spunk and Ideas, a loving home can seem a straightjacket, never mind a buildingful of orphan brats and illegitimate bastards.