Passel

All I know is someone used the word passel in a sentence, and I like it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Umlaut knew the word passel because he had heard Demon Professor Grossclout use it once. ❋ Anthony, Piers (2002)

These being enough admired, I had next to be told that I wouldn't believe how many folks was certain she had retired to the country because she was lazy, just keeping a few head of cattle for diversion -- she that had six thousand acres of land under fence, and had made a going concern _per diem_ of it for thirty years, even if parties did make cracks about her gates; but hardly ever getting a good night's sleep through having a "passel" of men to run it that you couldn't depend on -- though God only knew where you could find any other sort -- the minute your back was turned. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)

The best day was Mother's Day: I went to my daughter's house (my family is, in large part, Ecuadorean) and a whole passel of inlaws, outlaws and other Ecuadoreans were there. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Last week, a passel of world regulators rejected a different BHP plan to merge its iron ore operations with rival Rio Tinto into a $116 billion joint venture. ❋ Dennis K. Berman (2010)

And Waters warns of another possibility: A split field consisting of Allen and a passel of hard-liners might well lure a moderate into the race. ❋ Mike DeBonis (2011)

Some states allow the investors to tack on as much as 18 percent interest and a passel of legal fees and other charges. ❋ Nico Pitney (2010)

These include epilepsy, fibromyalgia, various interesting respiratory things, a whole passel of cormorbid conditions piggybacking on the fibro, et cetera - but for the purposes of this meme, I'm going to focus on the epilepsy, as it's less common. ❋ Sihaya09 (2009)

But a passel of TV chatters and newspaper columnists and guys are accustomed to basking in the glow offered by people doing real reporting. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Joseph Stein, a playwright who turned a set of short stories about the father of a passel of unmarried daughters into "Fiddler on the Roof," one of the most popular and enduring American musicals of the 20th century, died Oct. 24 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York of complications from a skull fracture. ❋ Emma Brown (2010)

Now a whole passel of them — Landrieu, Bayh, Lincoln, Lieberman, Pryor, Begich, Nelson, McCaskill — have expressed varying levels of unease with the idea. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But we drafted a passel of receivers a few years ago, and the decision proved disastrous. ❋ Unknown (2011)

“He sounds like he means to run off with other women while you stay home with a passel of brats.” ❋ The Scent Of Jasmine (2011)

George Washington single-handedly launched the French and Indian War when he failed to supervise his Indian allies, standing by as they butchered a passel of helpless French prisoners. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Guy Ritchie (directing), and a passel of low life characters, violence, and dark humor. ❋ Kateelliott (2009)

There are also a passel of House Republicans who could make a play for the seat. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I pictured the housewife left behind in North Carolina, exhausted, dressing a passel of infants while hubby journeyed to New York to meet with vendors. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The protagonist is divorced from his wife, has a passel of adult kids with various issues, and a new girlfriend whose adult daughter regards him as a father, too. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Hound Dog" had a passel of mastiffs in his backyard. ❋ Unknown (2009)

i [went] to a [party] and it [turned out] to be a passel ❋ Bigjakes (2008)

[I shit you not]. It was little [Lord of the Flies]. They were a right [passel] of little bastards. ❋ Antony Beerbottom (2012)

A [passel] of hatered. A passel of dirty [nippers]. A nasty passel of dangerous little [bastards]. ❋ AboutMe (2012)

Nice [passel] [Suzzie] [Jo] ❋ Scott Grossman And Derrick Williams (2004)