bottleful
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Reading those bits, and thousands like them, is like uncorking a bottleful of joy and pouring it over my head.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2015
And six-year-old Jackie Jenkins, with his bottleful of bugs and headful of lies, is as charming as he was in The Human Comedy.
From Time Magazine Archive
No longer can men drink a bottleful of port; some cannot drink tea; it is too exciting for their highly-wrought nervous systems.
From Certain Personal Matters by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
"A bottleful would never be missed," interposed Skinny.
From Harper's Round Table, July 2, 1895 by Various
"Does it have to go in slowly like that—the whole bottleful?" he inquired lazily.
From Mrs. Dud's Sister by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam
To have it the handier, she poured both bottlefuls into an empty demijohn and put the Spoon beside it in the cupboard.
From When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)
The doctor, who had not been able to examine this substance when he saw it on crimson cliffs from Baffin's Bay, here examined it at his ease, and gathered several bottlefuls of it.
From The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Riou, Edouard
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