"Bowlful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bowlful of snowballs overflowed on the polished table. The shining black mantelpiece was heaped with roses and ferns. Every shelf of the what-not held a sheaf of bluebells; the dark corners on either side of the grate ...
— Anne Of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... big bowlful! I'm afraid you gave me all the milk,' said Tilly, smiling over the nice, steaming supper ...
— Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag • Louisa M. Alcott
... house, so that when Andrew with his traitorous aides went round to collect monies, it miraculously happened to be all coppers, unrelieved by a single sparkle of silver or gold. On which, in a red rage (and he often was in the like) he flung the whole bowlful into the long-room fire, from the ashes whereof for days after the small boys gladly collected hot half-pence. We must recollect that the canny Scot was a mean over-reaching man, so perhaps he was well paid out. Soon after the wedding, the bridegroom held high festival, ...
— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper |
