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Definition of Bowlfuls
1. bowlful [n] - See also: bowlful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowlfuls
Literary usage of Bowlfuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Good Living and how to Prepare it by King's Daughters of Iowa (1905)
"Century Mince Meat Five and a half pint bowlfuls chopped meat, ten pint bowlfuls
chopped apples, and all the meat stock, two tablespoons black pepper ..."
2. The Chinese Slave-girl: A Story of Woman's Life in China by John A. Davis (1880)
"She thought, as her master ate two or three small bowlfuls and she more than one,
she ought to take at least two bowlfuls to cook. ..."
3. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1897)
"... of peas and boiled flour for all the new bands, and I have seen certain ones
among them eat more than eight bowlfuls of this before leaving the place. ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1898)
"When they had gone she took off the pot, and began to pour out the porridge, bat
though there had been plenty, there were now not two bowlfuls left. ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1893)
"A child sits up in bed all night reading some book; one youth of puritanical
training, when away at school, drank regularly a couple of bowlfuls of coffee ..."
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