Example Sentences

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The servant was staggering upstairs with two big canfuls of water; the task was beyond her strength.

From Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl by Newte, Horace W. C. (Horace Wykeham Can)

Then the water is near spent, and they are forced to come to half allowance, till they save and drink greedily whole canfuls of the bitter rain water.

From Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time by Kingsley, Charles