dipperful

Celin threw another dipperful of water on the stones.

Elephant in the City 2010

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty.

Archive 2007-06-01 Franki 2007

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty.

Taran Wanderer Mary Lee 2007

Tower picked up a dipperful of water and threw it at the tuff wall.

Burning Tower Larry Niven 2005

Tower picked up a dipperful of water and threw it at the tuff wall.

Burning Tower Larry Niven 2005

Seized by impulse, I tipped half a dipperful of water down the inside of my bodice, exhaling in relief as the wetness soaked the cloth, trickling between my breasts and down over my belly, tickling cool between my legs and dripping to the ground.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

Inman could not imagine whose they would be, but the children will stand entranced and watch as the two old people cut into the soft poplar with knives and dig out a dipperful of new wood, and then, suddenly, the children will see the flint blade as if it had been conjured up.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

McCoy took back a dipperful and offered it first to Chekov then the Romulan.

Pawns and Symbols Majliss Larson 2000

He splashed a cool handful of the fresh water into his face, in hopes of soothing his burning eyes, and gulped down a whole dipperful, ignoring for once the strictures imposed by that constant contradiction of the sea-always both too much water, and too little.

Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

He resumed his job, measuring out water by the dipperful into the buckets and dishes the emigrants held out to him.

Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997