These were first covered with a barrowful of earth and then with a heap of brushwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891] Reference

If it was in bad repair, Davis should see to it; a man with a barrowful of bricks and a shovelful of mortar should be sent down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance] Reference

In winter and spring, up to the time of serving with the bull, they get an average barrowful of turnips amongst every three, and no more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cattle and Cattle-breeders] Reference

Kashet was more than ready for his midday meal, and climbed out of his wallow with eagerness when Vetch dumped the barrowful out on the stone verge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joust]

‘A barrowful of what?’ thought Alice; but she had not long to doubt, for the next moment a shower of little pebbles came rattling in at the window, and some of them hit her in the face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alice in Wonderland] Reference

It was not of a barrowful of bricks and shovelful of mortar that he had been dreaming, but of lancet windows and stone mouldings; of polished oak rafters within, and of high gables and red tiles without.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance] Reference

And the care which was given was: pruning the vine, half an hour every year; and bringing a wheel-barrowful of manure, which was thrown over the stalk of the vine, planted in red clay outside the shelter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquest of Bread] Reference

Alice heard the Rabbit say, "A barrowful will do, to begin with.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland] Reference

Alice heard the Rabbit say, 'A barrowful will do, to begin with. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland] Reference

Whunny road; Hendry Robb, the "dummy," had sold his last barrowful of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Auld Licht Idylls] Reference

A wave leaped over the bow, falling in the dugout like a barrowful of stones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Huntress] Reference

The rule should be to spread every wheel-barrowful of manure as soon as it is put on the heap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject] Reference

I couldn't imagine what the trouble was, till, far down the line, I saw a man with a barrowful of lumps of raw meat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag] Reference

This Peter Crawley, some years before our tale, lay crushed beneath a barrowful of debts -- many of them to publicans.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference

Many a cart-load or wheel-barrowful of material will be deposited that would otherwise be allowed to run to waste. 4th.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject] Reference

After a minute or two, they began moving about again, and Alice heard the Rabbit say, "A barrowful will do, to begin with.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland] Reference

After a minute or two, they began moving about again, and Alice heard the Rabbit say, ` A barrowful will do, to begin with. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alice's Adventures In Wonderland] Reference

For there, upon the narrow new-made road, between the stripling pines, was a mediæval friar, fighting with a barrowful of turfs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)] Reference

For there, upon the narrow new-made road, between the stripling pines, was a mediaeval friar, fighting with a barrowful of turfs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes] Reference

It mattered not what they were carrying, they drove straight into the press, and when they could get no farther, blindly discharged their barrowful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays] Reference

Lamby had seen him rolling home a barrowful of firewood early in the morning, her having risen to hold cold water in her mouth, being down with the toothache.    From Wordnik.com.  [Auld Licht Idylls] Reference

Sometimes the gate at the farther side of the stable was open, and a gardener would come through with a barrowful of rubbish to add to the accumulation already in the lane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Gray] Reference

More by token Chirsty Lamby had seen him rolling home a barrowful of firewood early in the morning, her having risen to hold cold water in her mouth, being down with the toothache.    From Wordnik.com.  [Auld Licht Idyls] Reference

'A barrowful of WHAT? 'thought Alice; but she had not long to doubt, for the next moment a shower of little pebbles came rattling in at the window, and some of them hit her in the face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland] Reference

At 10 o'clock a barrowful of turnips is divided amongst three cows, and when these roots are not available, a quantity of peas or bean meal, with a pint of cold water, takes their place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock] Reference

We stood together one day in 1846 or 1847, and saw the first barrowful of soil removed from the canal bank, near the Crescent bridge, to form the opening which is now the railway tunnel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men] Reference

` A barrowful of WHAT? 'thought Alice; but she had not long to doubt, for the next moment a shower of little pebbles came rattling in at the window, and some of them hit her in the face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alice's Adventures In Wonderland] Reference

Most fun of all is bracing my feet like a kid and gleefully yanking the gangly vines of the perennial pea Lathyrus latifolius up by the barrowful, giving neighboring plants back some breathing room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference

He filled his calabash and returned; meantime George and Jacky had got together nearly a barrowful of the brown or rather chocolate-colored clay, mixed slightly with the upper and lower strata, the gray and white.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference

You're liable to see him wheelin 'in a barrowful of manure any time, though. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Torchy As A Pa] Reference

Pick me up a barrowful, wouldja?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Bauer has his day in court « raincoaster] Reference

‘A barrowful will do, to begin with.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alice in Wonderland] Reference

"A barrowful of what?" thought Alice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland] Reference

A barrowful fell on to my bed. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diary of a French Army Chaplain]