"Fistful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the processes followed for boiling sabutan. In the Province of Laguna a fistful of the stripped lengths with bases still attached are rolled up into a bundle and placed in fresh water in order to remove the coloring matter—in some places in clear, running river water, in other places ...
— Philippine Mats - Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 • Hugo H. Miller
... knitting and a fistful of unopened letters, came over to the parlor, she had also, tucked ...
— The Iron Woman • Margaret Deland
... who, as already stated, had the advantage of a tall figure and a tall horse, was able to get a full grasp at the neck of the bird; and being already provided, as was afterwards ascertained, with a fistful of sand, he took the prize ...
— The White Chief - A Legend of Northern Mexico • Mayne Reid
... out in his chamber. His jaded horse went to the fenceless pasture; a new and probably better steed was saddled at the door when the day came that he must go. And in the houses which had it, a casual fistful of silver lay upon his table, from which he was expected to help himself against his present needs. It was a society in which hotels could not survive (even long after they were attempted) because every home was open to the ...
— The California Birthday Book • Various
... small sigh and headed for the cashier's booth. Three minutes later, he was back with a fat fistful of chips. ...
— That Sweet Little Old Lady • Gordon Randall Garrett (AKA Mark Phillips) |
