"Handful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for no more, but ran out of the greenhouse to David's great surprise, and presently came hurrying back with a handful ...
— Work: A Story of Experience • Louisa May Alcott
... himself reared (Polyporus avellanus), is procured by singeing, over a handful of straw, a block of the cob-nut tree, which is then watered and put by. In about a month the fungi make their appearance, and are quite white, of from two to three inches in diameter, and excellent to eat, while their ...
— Fungi: Their Nature and Uses • Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
... that same anxious look suddenly revived in his face, went below into the kitchen, mounted a chair, took down an old broken tea-cup from the top shelf, and poured out into his wrinkled palm a handful of small silver coin—his entire collection of tips, and all the money he had. This he carried to the colonel, with a lie in his mouth that the recording angel blotted out the moment it ...
— Colonel Carter of Cartersville • F. Hopkinson Smith
... the opalescent whites of his eyes forming rings around his irides. Then, grasping the fact that it was done as a joke, he burst into a loud guffaw, slapped his thighs and cried, "Bunyip— bunyip!" bounding away the next moment, for Bostock sent a handful of water ...
— King o' the Beach - A Tropic Tale • George Manville Fenn
... In the 'fifties it fell to a native of Ningpo, where I then lived. His good luck was announced to his wife by the magistrate in person, who conducted her to the six gates, at each of which she scattered a handful of rice, as an omen of good fortune. In the 'sixties, when I had removed to Peking, this honor was for the first time conferred on a Manchu, a son of the General Saishanga. His daughter was deemed a fit consort for the heir to the throne, ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIV • John Lord
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