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To serve, cook 200g mixed berries with 20g sugar and pour over bowlfuls of the ice-cream, garnishing with fresh lemon thyme and a drizzle of olive oil.

From The Guardian • Aug. 21, 2019

Berger suggests the twins gather photos of Beverly – and they go ahead and make a sort of homemade shrine and eat bowlfuls of raspberries alongside it.

From The Guardian • Oct. 30, 2016

Like a wolf, I gorged—ate nineteen paper bowlfuls of chili.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

This island received its name from the fact that Sir Francis Drake had here made a division of his spoils, distributing to each man of his company sixteen bowlfuls of doubloons and pieces of eight.

From The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers by Gosse, Philip

Water in abundance was given us without payment, and they sold us fish dried in the sun, and some bowlfuls of sour milk, all at a reasonable price.

From Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770. by Maxwell, Patrick