bowl-full

Example Sentences

• "Set up the May pole, and ea[t] Cream by whole bowl-fulls."
• "Nor must the soldiers be forgotten, who spared many bowls-full of their soup and many fragments of bread to send to the poor old people."
• "After an excellent supper, which included several bowls-full of this delicious article of diet, we retired to rest on a great heap of hay in a corner of the châlet."
• "Attributing this deficiency of milk to the habit of her former allopathic physician and nurses of deluging her for weeks with odious concoctions, very properly known as slops, of which she was urged to imbibe huge bowl-fulls, including quantities of tea, for the purpose of “making milk.”"
• "“Ah!” she returned, smiling, “you are still suspicious of the existence of Aladdin’s cavern in that vicinity, are you?” / He smiled. “A few of the bowl-fulls of those jewels Aladdin found to present to his princess would not be an unwelcome ‘find’ to me, certainly,” he answered, significantly."
• "Staggering under the huge bowl-fulls of unintoxicating cocoa milk and kava that we have quaffed, we think it prudent to call at the hotel for a life-preserver."