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  • Katharine prepared a great boilerful of tea -- "The best thing in the world," said the squire, "for fighting men."

    Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812

  • Then drawing up a steamer chair, she settled herself comfortably and closed her eyes, not noticing that in the boilerful of white things she had plunged a red silk handkerchief of Percy's.

    The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp Katherine Stokes

  • Our newest negro cook, who is a heroine in her own right, went out and started the laundry fire and made up a boilerful of coffee.

    Dear Enemy Jean Webster 1896

  • One tablespoonful of borax to every gallon of water added to each boilerful, serves as a bleacher and disinfectant.

    Public School Domestic Science Adelaide Hoodless 1884

  • She's on her way to Kansas, via Chicago; but I'll lay my next boilerful she'll be held there to wait consignee's convenience, and sent back to us with wheat in the fall. "

    The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

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