gourdfuls

This will be taken as a binding contract pledging the consumption of a dozen large gourdfuls.

Nathaniel Loewentheil: Suggested Revisions to Bolivian Travel Guides, Part 2: Bolivian Bullfighting 2010

He stopped at a water well, drank two gourdfuls, hoping to quiet the rumblings of his stomach.

The Soulforge Weis, Margaret 1998

The negro boy arriving with the toddy, Colonel Clark served out three generous gourdfuls, a smaller one for me.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

The negro boy arriving with the toddy, Colonel Clark served out three generous gourdfuls, a smaller one for me.

The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909

The negro boy arriving with the toddy, Colonel Clark served out three generous gourdfuls, a smaller one for me.

The Crossing 1904

They ate the remainder of their dates, took a drink of water, and gave two gourdfuls to the horses; and, in a quarter of an hour, were on their way again.

With Kitchener in the Soudan A Story of Atbara and Omdurman 1867

A swarthy boatman in a tow shirt with a bright handkerchief on his head stared at us over the gunwale of one of the keel boats, and spat into the still, yellow water; three high-cheeked Indians, with smudgy faces and dirty red blankets, regarded us in silent contempt; and by the water-side above us was a sled loaded with a huge water cask, a bony mustang pony between the shafts, and a chanting negro dipping gourdfuls from the river.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

A swarthy boatman in a tow shirt with a bright handkerchief on his head stared at us over the gunwale of one of the keel boats, and spat into the still, yellow water; three high-cheeked Indians, with smudgy faces and dirty red blankets, regarded us in silent contempt; and by the water-side above us was a sled loaded with a huge water cask, a bony mustang pony between the shafts, and a chanting negro dipping gourdfuls from the river.

The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909

A swarthy boatman in a tow shirt with a bright handkerchief on his head stared at us over the gunwale of one of the keel boats, and spat into the still, yellow water; three high-cheeked Indians, with smudgy faces and dirty red blankets, regarded us in silent contempt; and by the water-side above us was a sled loaded with a huge water cask, a bony mustang pony between the shafts, and a chanting negro dipping gourdfuls from the river.

The Crossing 1904