skinfuls

Arrived again at the well Zem-Zem, Burton had to take another nauseous draught and was deluged with two skinfuls of the water dashed over his head.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

We were to fill all our waterskins from a remarkably fine well of particularly sweet water at Hadi, so we took only a couple of skinfuls with us.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

Arrived again at the well Zem-Zem, Burton had to take another nauseous draught and was deluged with two skinfuls of the water dashed over his head.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

Arrived again at the well Zem-Zem, Burton had to take another nauseous draught and was deluged with two skinfuls of the water dashed over his head.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

The chapter repeated in the first was “Say thou, O Infidels”: in the second, “Say thou He is the one God. 10” We then went to the door of the building in which is Zemzem: there I was condemned to another nauseous draught, and was deluged with two or three skinfuls of water dashed over my head en douche.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

It was just such dark red wine as this, I suppose, that Ulysses and his friends in these seas took in skinfuls to wash down venison, an excellent menu I must say, but it would have been more seamanlike if they had slept off the effects on board, instead of lying out all night on the beach; then, when Morning the rosy-fingered turned up, they'd have been quicker getting under way, and would have got home sooner in the end.

From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900

The niggers had collected skinfuls of stones of all kinds, and out of all the skinfuls

Tatterdemalion John Galsworthy 1900

"Here, Nancy Devlin, get Peety and the girsha their skinfuls of stirabout an 'milk.

The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831