armfuls

And the women gathered the swarf by armfuls, spun bants of straw and tied in armfuls into sheaves, stacked sheaves into kivvers.

favorite quote | clusterflock 2009

Anyone else remember Crackerjack and the quiz where you got to stand on a drum and win armfuls of prizes and a cabbage if you dropped anything, but then the ultimate accolade, a Crackerjack pencil.

Sunday Confessions on Tuesday 2007

Anyone else remember Crackerjack and the quiz where you got to stand on a drum and win armfuls of prizes and a cabbage if you dropped anything, but then the ultimate accolade, a Crackerjack pencil.

50 entries from June 2007 2007

Anyone else remember Crackerjack and the quiz where you got to stand on a drum and win armfuls of prizes and a cabbage if you dropped anything, but then the ultimate accolade, a Crackerjack pencil.

Sunday Confessions on Tuesday 2007

Arriving at the church - sorry, worship centre - I was welcomed into a cavernous modern atrium by a model-pretty hostess bearing glad tidings and armfuls of Christmas candy.

Christopher Price: Australian Idolatry: Evangelical Christians Resurrecting the Music Industry Christopher Price 2011

He even went into the woods and scooped armfuls of last year's fallen leaves which he scattered over the slide.

Chapter XXVII 2010

He scented the mares and stopped short, head flung up and armfuls of creamy mane tossing in the breeze.

CHAPTER XVII 2010

Some had collected mounds of rubble to use against the police, others had armfuls of goods they had taken from looted shops.

London riots: conflagration and carnage in the capital and beyond 2011

"Yes," said I; "how the poor city folk will envy when they come to see us, and how we will make all well again when we send them off with great golden armfuls!"

The Golden Poppy 2010

It was too early for the crowd, but bricklayers and their families, laden with huge lunch-baskets and armfuls of babies, were already going in -- a healthy, husky race of workmen, well-paid and robustly fed.

CHAPTER II 2010