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- At least it was all spontaneous; it was not made to order on any page of it, and it is the handful left from very many handfuls destroyed. [11]
- In the cemetery Ulrich threw three handfuls of earth into the open grave, then with drooping head returned home. [10]
- And now and then while these frenzies possessed him, he would tear off handfuls of the cotton and expose his cooked flesh to view. [5]
- They saw only the yellow sand, the ever-receding oasis, the brackish, undrinkable water, the withered and fruitless date- tree, handfuls of dourha for their food by day, and the keen, sharp night to chill their half-dead bodies in a half-waking sleep. [11]
- But she knew his opinions full well, I tell you, and shed many a tear over them, too.--Now she has expended vast sums on church-building, she has opened the Xenodochium and pours her money by lavish handfuls clown the insatiable throats of monks and priests. [10]
- Grasping the ducats, he gave Ulrich two handfuls, exclaiming: "This one is for your work here, the other to relieve you from any care concerning means of living, while pursuing your studies in Venice and Florence. [10]
- Freedom, and five handfuls of gold for the man who brings him back. [10]
- There was nothing for us to do in Samaria but buy handfuls of old Roman coins at a franc a dozen, and look at a dilapidated church of the Crusaders and a vault in it which once contained the body of John the Baptist. [5]
- All round the field the movement was forward, till the circle had widened to the enemy's lines; while at the old defences were only handfuls of men. [11]
- Old soldiers with baskets of cartridges were stepping from file to file, giving handfuls to the recruits. [9]
- What further Maitresse Aimable said was proof that if she knew little and spake little, she knew that little well; and if she had gathered meagrely from life, she had at least winnowed out some small handfuls of grain from the straw and chaff. [11]
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