bowl-full

plural bowl-fulls · plural bowls-full

1. uncommonUncommon form of bowlful.

   Set up the May pole, and ea[t] Cream by whole bowl-fulls.

   1671, Poor Robin [pseudonym], Poor Robin 1671. An Almanack after a New Fashion. Wherein the Reader May See (if He Be Not Blind) Many Remarkable Things Worthy of Observation. […], London: […] [T]he Company of Stationers, signature B, recto

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   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.

   1854, Aubrey De Vere, “The Little Sisters of the Poor”, in Heroines of Charity: […], London: Burns and Lambert, […], →OCLC, page 241

   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.

   1862, W[illia]m Mathews, Jun., “[The Alps of the Tarentaise.] Narrative of Explorations in 1861.”, in Edward Shirley Kennedy, editor, Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers; Being Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club, second series, volume II, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, page 392

   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.”

   1863 December, C[onrad] Wesselhœft, “Clinical Observations on Lachesis”, in P[hineas] P[arkhurst] Wells, Carroll Dunham, Henry M. Smith, editors, The American Homœopathic Review, volume IV, number 6, New York, N.Y.: John T. S. Smith & Son […]; London: Turner & Co., published 1864, page 277

   “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.

   1882 November, Mrs. M. Sheffey Peters, “The Barren Ridge of Ridgeway”, in Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine, volume CV, number 629, Philadelphia, Pa., chapter X, page 436, column 1

   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.

   1898, Edward Reeves, “Samoa”, in Brown Men and Women or The South Sea Islands in 1895 and 1896, London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Lim., page 166