jugful
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jugfuls
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She was caught, along with her two youngest children, a jugful of jewelry and $120,000 cash, by partisans as she sought refuge in Switzerland.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the disturbing part of it is, I don’t feel withered—not by a jugful!
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
But you're not goin' to St. Louis in it—not by a jugful.
From The Real Man by Francis Lynde
"I ain't licked yet—not by a jugful," Scraggs snapped.
From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Gordon Grant
It won't hurt your old cart to go out in the stumps, but we ain't going to drive in the ditch, not by a jugful.
From Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
Things straightened out a bit after that, and I saw there were quantities of flowers in the room, jugfuls in fact, which had been sent to cheer me along.
From Fanny Goes to War by Pat Beauchamp Washington
I have poured divers jugfuls of water over Comrade Spiller's bed, Comrade Robinson's bed, Comrade Stone's—Spiller, Spiller, these are harsh words; where you pick them up I can't think—not from me.
From Mike and Psmith by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
I have poured divers jugfuls of water over Comrade Spiller’s bed, Comrade Robinson’s bed, Comrade Stone’s—Spiller, Spiller, these are harsh words; where you pick them up I can’t think—not from me.
From Mike by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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