penful

The carriages overcome, you find yourself confronted by a huge penful of Durham oxen, lying on hay and surrounded by a barricade of oars.

Little Travels and Roadside Sketches 2004

Richard Dalloway and Rachel, for she ran on with the same penful to describe her niece.

The Voyage Out 2004

They know the value of gold perfectly well, for they bring it for sale in goose-quills, and demand 24 yards of calico for one penful.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Now, having thus gaily trimmed and set up this man of straw, — to whose framing I dare boldly say not one of his adversaries did ever contribute a penful of ink, — to show his rare skill, he chargeth it with I know not how many errors, blasphemies, lies, set on with exclamations and vehement outcries, until it tumble to the ground.

The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

I feel that I am living now only because you love me: and that my life will have run out, like this penful of ink, when that use in me is past.

An Englishwoman's Love-Letters Anonymous

"Art thou ready at last to leave the Temple, child?" asked Aunt Miriam, coming up behind Naomi as she stood gazing in at a penful of young lambs.

Christmas Light Ethel Calvert Phillips

Why did civilized people want to talk a lingo that made you grunt like a pig -- or like a penful of pigs of all sizes?

Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923

Richard Dalloway and Rachel, for she ran on with the same penful to describe her niece.

The Voyage Out 1915

Dalloway and Rachel, for she ran on with the same penful to describe her niece.

The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf 1911

I told him to jab a penful of ink on the platinum points, as there was sugar enough to make it sufficiently thick to hold up when the operator tried to break -- the current still going through the ink so that he could not break.

Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910