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  • You may kill them by bushelfuls, and their phalanxes are apparently undiminished.

    Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

  • We worked away at the junk until we had polished the bone, clean as an elephant's tusk, and the roasted yams disappeared in bushelfuls; while the old rum sank in the bottle, like mercury in the barometer indicating an approaching gale.

    Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812

  • Horses couldn't get through it to drag a plow, and it would take an army of men to shovel the snow away, for the wind will blow the snow back as fast as a fellow gets a few bushelfuls moved. "

    The Grammar School Boys Snowbound or, Dick & Co. at Winter Sports 1895

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