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
Turold said this was different—the man had brought back a little bottleful of diamonds.
From The Moon Rock by Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)
Should you apprehend a relapse, keep a small bottleful about you, and on the slightest symptom repeat the dose.”
From Talkers With Illustrations by Bate, John
Mind you drink deep of the well of wisdom, and bring a little bottleful home to me.'
From Stories from Hans Andersen by Dulac, Edmund
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
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)
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