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I have come into villages where, had we acted a domineering part, and rummaged every hut, we should have found nothing; but by sitting down quietly, and waiting with patience until the villagers were led to form a favorable opinion of us, a woman would bring out a shellful of the precious fluid from I know not where.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

And after a loud hubbub went up, the little girl wearing the medal left and soon returned with a shellful of cooked papaya.

Left to Die Dan Kurzman 1995

And after a loud hubbub went up, the little girl wearing the medal left and soon returned with a shellful of cooked papaya.

Left to Die Dan Kurzman 1995

Pomegranates jingling like sheep bells, the priest carries the shellful of water to the sacred enclosure.

Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990

One of a cluster of huts farther up was given over to a squad of "soldiers," garrisoning the frontier, and an officer who would have ranked as a vagabond in another country sold me three tortillas and a shellful of coffee saved from his rations.

Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921

He fixed the boat's painter carefully round a spike of coral and landed on the reef, and with a shellful of rum and cocoa-nut lemonade mixed half and half, he took his perch on a high ledge of coral from whence a view of the sea and the coral strand could be obtained.

The Blue Lagoon: a romance 1907

Every shade vanished from shining eyes when I produced the bottle of rum and added a spoonful of flavor to each brimming shellful.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

It was hard to get down, but all the men took theirs at a gulp, and when Kivi gave me another shellful, I followed their pattern.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

Shellful after shellful of the dirt did Ab carry from where the pit was to be, trotting patiently back and forth, but the work was wearisome and there was a great waste of energy.

The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man Stanley Waterloo 1879

He lay passive, apart from speech: "What do you owe the Empire, Diana, this shellful of rotting flesh?

The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985