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Definition of Handfuls
1. handful [n] - See also: handful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handfuls
Literary usage of Handfuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"handfuls Blossoms of babies Blinking their stories Come soft On the dusk and the
babble; Little red gamblers, handfuls that slept in the dust. ..."
2. The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1901)
"... and this on account of the necessary expenses for new types, and because
booksellers give not their money by handfuls to young authors; although to me ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"De regarded as a few scattered handfuls of individuals, whose case could be
satisfactorily dealt with by a few judicial prosecutions. ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1861)
"Gangrenous or putrid sores should be covered with thick layers of it, by handfuls,
several times per day. If one is treating pus, blood, dejections, ..."
5. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1861)
"Gangrenous or pu:rid sores should be covered with thick layers of it, by handfuls,
several times per day. ..."
6. Letters and Papers on Agriculture, Planting, &c., Selected from the (1802)
"... are obvious* The quantity made ufe of was, two gallons of water, two ounces
of tobacco, and three or four handfuls of elder. It may, however, be made as ..."
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