pitcherful
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She set the dining-room table with the good linen and silverware, collected fruit from the tamarind tree, and squeezed and strained a pitcherful of juice.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
"Did you carry that pitcherful of water up to that room and set it on the washstand?"
From The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
A white beard that reaches down to his waist, and if you'd put it into hot water it would yield more than a pitcherful of grease.
From Luna Benamor by Goldberg, Isaac
Go bring me a pitcherful, and another cup; I want a draught myself.
From Eight Cousins by Alcott, Louisa May
We presume that few will thirst for another draught from this pitcherful of the Border Helicon; and—as time presses—we shall now push forward to the consideration of the remodelled poetry.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various
From the balconies above were dashed down pailfuls and pitcherfuls of water.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee
One of the young men modestly replied, 'Yes: we filled the cistern this morning; but it leaks, and requires a few pitcherfuls more.'
From A Laodicean : a Story of To-day by Hardy, Thomas
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