wheelbarrowful

The most lazy historical error comes when Mr. Bergman castigates "a pair of renegade astronomers" for making "a wheelbarrowful of money" by incorrectly predicting a major California earthquake in 1974.

Solar Illumination John Gribbin 2011

We bought water-melons nearly twice as large as a man's head, most deliciously cool and well-flavoured, for a halfpenny apiece; and for the value of threepence, half a wheelbarrowful of peaches.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

We bought water-melons nearly twice as large as a man's head, most deliciously cool and well-flavoured, for a halfpenny apiece; and for the value of threepence, half a wheelbarrowful of peaches.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Make the first batch small, about one wheelbarrowful.

5. Construction of ferro-cement reservoirs 1989

We bought water-melons nearly twice as large as a man’s head, most deliciously cool and well-flavoured, for a halfpenny apiece; and for the value of threepence, half a wheelbarrowful of peaches.

Chapter XV 1909

"Oh, yes," replied Mrs. Boyd, "we had tea and coffee, any number of cakes and pies, and the coloured man brought up a wheelbarrowful of water-melons and piled them on the floor, and we ate them all!"

The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 Various 1899

Ben Butler, here -- I call him Ben Butler because he is low-born and has no manners -- arrived only last night, bought for me by my husband with a whole wheelbarrowful of Confederate bills: is it not curious how we, who have such confidence in our

Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond 1890

We bought water-melons nearly twice as large as a man's head, most deliciously cool and well-flavoured, for a halfpenny apiece; and for the value of threepence, half a wheelbarrowful of peaches.

The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845

Commons, _ a wheelbarrowful or more, with no cost but the carriage.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Thomas Carlyle 1838

Cultivars may number in the hundreds, but don't expect a wheelbarrowful of new cabbages every spring.

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