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Here there were basketfuls, boxfuls, bucketfuls, barrelfuls, wagonloads—the whole street was crowded with wagons, and every wagon heaped high with the crimson and yellow fruit.

From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Paine, Albert Bigelow

It was affirmed, none the less, that one barrel of the original stuff was more than enough for three barrelfuls of the bottled product.

From South Wind by Douglas, Norman

"By the time Nan's ready," he said, having at that point asked her intermittently for several years, "I shall be getting barrelfuls out of my plays."

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice

Even with this highest incentive, Mr. White tells us that dozens of barrelfuls of manuscript were rejected; and not one patriot was found whose principles—as expressed in his poetry—were worth that much money!

From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by DeLeon, T. C.