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May 28, 1793 – My weeding-woman swept up on the grass-plot a bushel-basket of blossoms from the white apple-tree: & yet that tree seems still covered with bloom.

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I consider China to be far and away our biggest threat, and every military resource we have/will have should be developed with the thought of killing them by the bushel-basket.

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Public interest was aroused in the most general and intense degree, and Mr. Scollop's cashier made daily trips to the bank with a bushel-basket full of dimes.

Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life Lemuel Ely Quigg

Armstrongs, Paradise wouldn't pay, and Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob mout just as well blow out their candle and go under a bushel-basket, -- unless

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

Raphael; should exhibit such emotion as Picton exhibited, over a bushel-basket only half-filled with small-sized blue-nosed tubers.

Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

"Say, his heart must be as big as a bushel-basket, Hugh," admitted

The Chums of Scranton High at Ice Hockey Donald Ferguson

A trunk against the wall was littered with several large books (one of which was the family Bible), a stack of dusty lamp shades, a dingy sweater, and several bushel-basket lids.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Ohio Narratives Work Projects Administration

At last Picton stumbled over a prize -- a bushel-basket half-filled with potatoes, whereat he raised a bugle-note of triumph.

Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

Close to my face were the lines ascending and descending, while just above me were hundreds of thousands, a bushel-basket of army ants, with only the strength of their threadlike legs as suspension cables.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

Penrod felt in a dark corner of the box and laid hands upon a simple apparatus consisting of an old bushel-basket with a few yards of clothes-line tied to each of its handles.

Penrod 1914