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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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