Lexicographical Neighbors of Palmful
Literary usage of Palmful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations with Illustrative Notes on Words by Alexander Carmichael, James Carmichael Watson, Angus Matheson (1900)
"A palmful for thine age, A palmful for thy growth, A palmful for thy throat, A
flood for thine appetite. For thy share of the dainty, ..."
2. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1895)
"I would give this braid — Thy father's gift to me — But for a single palmful Of
water now for thee. Ah, spring not to his name — no more To glad us may he ..."
3. Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness by Gaelic Society of Inverness (1894)
"As the performance went on, and as each palmful was sprinkled on the child, the
following Incantation was repeated ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"Daintily she descended step by step until the water was around her knees, and
then, with the most graceful movements, she raised a palmful of it three times ..."
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