hatfuls

Within weeks he was taking hatfuls of wickets – eight against Kent, four against Essex, six for 30 against Middlesex – and within two seasons he and Gilligan were bowling South Africa all out for 30 in 48 minutes in his first Test.

Maurice Tate was a true Ashes hero but now weeds claim his grave Stephen Bates 2010

There followed a three - or four-game blip in February and March, but when the situation began to favour attacking rugby, Brendan Venter and the coaches reassessed the situation and started winning by scoring hatfuls of tries.

Saracens peaking perfectly with the Premiership summit in sight 2010

And here comes Boris to bring, well, hatfuls of sunbeams to lighten our days.

Archive 2007-07-15 2007

And here comes Boris to bring, well, hatfuls of sunbeams to lighten our days.

Go, Boris, Go! 2007

I mean I have full confidence Jay Demerit and Marlon King will score hatfuls of goals this season for me and bale me out of trouble.

A Rival Parliamentary Fantasy Football League Kerron Cross 2006

In hatfuls and in capfuls and in bushel bags and all

Humboldt Wassail Song 1998

There are few that have hatfuls of money to expend upon the purchase of high-bred animals; nor is this necessary in order to secure a profitable return from a breeding stock.

Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie

With the quick perception of a boy, Alec noticed he had used up all the dust within reach, so he got him a few hatfuls from the roadside, for which he was very grateful, and immediately sent a sand blast over his back that annihilated quite a colony of mosquitoes.

Adventures in Many Lands Various

Could one empty a few hatfuls along Pall-Mall or Bond Street, on opera nights, what an amazement would seize the people!

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various

Lately I reaped nearly two bolls of wheat from two hatfuls which I sowed.

Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman David J. Deane