'There's a dishful, then, and there's the gridiron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

I spooned out an ordinary dishful, and Sally whispered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air] Reference

To cook, dip out a dishful, fry it in bubbling bacon fat as directed for corn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference

I'm hungry enough to eat the whole dishful and not leave any for you children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bertha] Reference

It costs less than a nickel to make and eat a huge dishful, 300+ grams for 100 kcal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sitting in a café.] Reference

She lifted a fragrant dishful of hot roast ham from the oven and set it on the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Favourite Dog Stories]

I hope you piled them in a large bowl with whipping cream or ice cream and let everyone grab a dishful!.    From Wordnik.com.  [TWD: Espresso Cheesecake Brownies] Reference

Timmy had a dishful too - he loved porridge, though he didn't like the syrup - it made his whiskers sticky!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five On A Hike Together]

I put too much water with my rhubarb and had a whole dishful of beautiful pink juice left over, about a quart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Suffrage Cook Book] Reference

'Then bring a dishful, with coffee, bread, and whatever else adds to the breakfast, without adding to the bill.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference

A dishful of sprigs in October proves pleasant both to the sight and smell, the flowers and fruit being charmingly blended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

A large dishful can be prepared for fifteen cents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six] Reference

A good dishful can be made for about twenty cents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six] Reference

When they send him a dishful, and ask him to try 'em.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference

The cost of a nice dishful will be about eighteen cents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six] Reference

Half a pound of uncooked macaroni will make a large dishful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six] Reference

At the liberal dishful of bacon and eggs she stared wide-eyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Jessie] Reference

He ate the humblest dishful of maize husks and meal strainings.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma] Reference

Five cents will cover the cost of frying them; and a nice dishful will cost you about eighteen cents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six] Reference

I found a man once in my raspberry-bushes, early in the season, when we were waiting for a dishful to ripen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

After putting on her clothes she ate some bread-and-butter, swallowed a dishful of cold tea, and went out into the street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liza of Lambeth] Reference

"Why there's enough cream in this situation to make a dishful of meringues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Mapp] Reference

One salmon only, and one dishful of grayling, magnificently managed, excepted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

"'Yes, sir,' says Huldy; and she opened the pantry door and showed him a nice dishful she'd been a-savin 'up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor] Reference

"It's the stuff they put in -- fuller's earth and soap; they pile the soft soap in by the dishful, and it makes a great lather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under Fire A Tale of New England Village Life] Reference

Ben with a tin dishful, which they drank.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference

In my tent I gave him half the dishful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Boy]

Half the quantity will make a fair dishful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Allinson's cookery book Comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes] Reference

| dishful | 27 | .97 | 11 | 1 | 88.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science] Reference

"Here's a nice dishful for you and the girls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prudence of the Parsonage] Reference

A whole dishful of Toms -- Moore, Dibdin, Bayly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference