sackfuls

Alight with enthusiasm, Professor Kaplan's conversation ranges from the ribald ditties sung by bakers kneading the dough in 18th-century France to recent moves for millers to supply flour in smaller and easier-to-lift sackfuls so as to encourage female recruits to the profession.

The Best Baguette in Paris Lennox Morrison 2011

He drove back to Egypt, sold his car, and two weeks later boarded a troop ship, travelling back to England around the coast of Africa, stopping at Durban, Cape Town and Freetown in Sierra Leone, where he indulged himself buying presents for his family: sackfuls of citrus fruit, chocolate, marmalade and expensive silks for his sisters.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

George would always give the gossip grinders sackfuls of grist since he cares for no one but George himself.

The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

She used to pay Dan for answering some, but it was so boring, and it would come in sackfuls.

Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009

I've got sackfuls of the stuff sitting in the back.

ana-ng Diary Entry ana-ng 2009

George would always give the gossip grinders sackfuls of grist since he cares for no one but George himself.

The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

George would always give the gossip grinders sackfuls of grist since he cares for no one but George himself.

The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

She used to pay Dan for answering some, but it was so boring, and it would come in sackfuls.

Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009

Consider this fact: More than 30,000 contractors have spent the past three-and-a-half years running around Iraq with sackfuls of cash.

T. Christian Miller: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives and Corporate Greed in Iraq 2008

“People will feel wealthier carrying around sackfuls of pound coins, like a Lord Snooty cartoon” enthused Lambert.

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