Noun, : a basketful of surprises.    From Dictionary.com. 

In the Soudan buying two children for a basketful of dhoora.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of General Gordon] Reference

Just see the basketful of anemones we got down in the glen!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic Myths] Reference

At this point I blew in and he shot me the whole basketful.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Work for the Undertaker]

On their arrival a basketful of State papers was placed before the.    From Wordnik.com.  [William of Germany] Reference

When the hawthorn is in full bloom, pick a basketful of the blooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Belgian Cookbook] Reference

Robert Neville was in his hothouse collecting a basketful of garlic.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Am Legend]

"Well, you need not shower down a basketful, merely to pick out one.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference

One peppercorn to-day is better than a basketful of pumpkins to-morrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference

One day the traitor fled, with a teapot and a basketful of cold victuals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Snobs] Reference

They met Silas coming out as they carried the last basketful from the shed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

"But someone with a good basketful of ideas can go a long way in this race.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Rocky For President?] Reference

The Englishman has a basketful of excellent periodicals to every one of ours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference

They gathered a whole basketful of mushrooms; even Lily found a birch mushroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

'I have a basketful of cockles in my boat; you may have some of those if you like.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Family and Other Animals]

"But some people agreed with them," Fralie said, approaching with a basketful of ash.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mammoth Hunters]

‘Ah, little fox, but if I give you a basketful, what am I to eat?’ asked the boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crimson Fairy Book] Reference

But we still have a basketful of presidential politics in store for our viewers out there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2008] Reference

Of course an exchange of gifts took place, and we were sent a sheep and a huge basketful of milk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

Unfortunately for the dog, its tail dropped for a moment over a big basketful of fine live lobsters.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Toasts] Reference

The maid rinsed the white linen and lifting a basketful stepped out to spread it on the grass to dry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Three Hundred Years Ago] Reference

Wallace was contented to allow them a part of the trouts, but he refused to part with the whole basketful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Types of Children's Literature] Reference

She did not eat any of her blackberries, nor did she give any away; and yet she had the best basketful of all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nursery, August 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 2] Reference

Those huntsmen, O lord, used every day, to procure, with great regard, a basketful of meat for Bhimasena, O king!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

He sold his basketful at the first house -- a place five miles away where some strange artist-folks were boarding.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the Hills] Reference

You'll take me, daddy, won't yer -- 'cos I've picked a lot of samphire -- all that, and another basketful up there?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor's Lass] Reference

Two little boys came smiling up to Gordon one day, and pressed him to buy one of them for a little basketful of dhoora.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of General Gordon] Reference

And every spring I gether a basketful o 'these pink roses and lay 'em on her grave over yonder in the old buryin'-ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference

We did; and before it was ended a woman came in, whose occupation was to deal in bread, and she had a basketful with her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference

She cherished her own portion, and soon magnified it to a basketful -- and soon, again, to a monopoly of the entire supply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hepsey Burke] Reference

The two latter had gone down among the trees near the beach to get the last basketful of moss to complete the work of adornment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days] Reference

Yonder in my land this salt is a precious thing; for a basketful, one can obtain a fat cow, for a sackful, two or more young wives!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference

One expert bulb gardener says to take a basketful of bulbs in the fall, walk about your grounds, and just drop bulbs out here and there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference

And Dorothy came in to ask if she had better broil or fricassee the chickens for breakfast, and to say that there was a whole basketful of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference