Hallful

There was no vigor, no activity of the will anywhere in the great, amorphous hallful of humanity; everything truly admirable seemed gone, scamped, ignored, in her talk.

I have unlimbered hallsful of folding chairs; rescued religion textbooks from the holy-water font; served on the Classroom Location committee (you use the four corners of the parish hall and start a novena for folding walls).

Jacob thought of the hallfuls of parents he had faced, term after term, queuing up for his good advice.

Harry, in a hallful of people I hardly knew; there he was, being so very much himself, so very ready to give of himself, and there was something close to comical about him – the ale-ruddied cheeks and cowslick hair, the popped buttons – but he was definitely in on the joke, which only made if funnier.