Old Woman poured a pitcherful of warm water over her head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pirates] Reference

There was a bowlful of sugar cubes, a pitcherful of cream, a plate of half-moon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Earthquakes] Reference

They sold one glass for five cents, then Carol, who was always awkward, upset the whole pitcherful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken Little Jane] Reference

The refreshment unit menu listed grapefruit mar-garitas, so I called up a pitcherful and filled tall glasses for both of us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perseus Spur]

If a signature drink is on the menu, I will make a pitcherful or set out the necessary ingredients with a card listing directions for mixing nearby.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art and Craft of Entertaining] Reference

She took out the device of bladder and tubing Tilia had given her long ago, and with a pitcherful of lukewarm water washed John's seed out of herself quickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference

Highland practice was to send | 333 | some one on the last night of the year to draw a pitcherful of water in silence, and without the vessel touching the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference

And this he proverb from the condition of the water he giveth: “It is a well of water; not a draught, not a pitcherful, as that thou carriest away, but it is a fountain, a well.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed] Reference

We presume that few will thirst for another draught from this pitcherful of the Border Helicon; and -- as time presses -- we shall now push forward to the consideration of the remodelled poetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference

Unlike the perfect souffle, it was created under the gaze of the guests (only a slob would make and refrigerate a pitcherful in advance; the alchemy would dissipate) and was largely performance art, a form of swordplay for the urban male.    From Wordnik.com.  [WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories]

The old man drank and drank, -- the pitcherful and more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader] Reference

Go bring me a pitcherful, and another cup; I want a draught myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eight Cousins] Reference

I was up at six, and had a pitcherful of water poured on me the first thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

"For the land sake, she hasn't used all that great pitcherful of water so quick?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural] Reference

"Did you carry that pitcherful of water up to that room and set it on the washstand?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural] Reference

He brought out a pitcherful of milk, and after we had drunk some, we all sat down together in the shade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches] Reference

We had a plum pudding for dinner on Tuesday and there was half the pudding and a pitcherful of sauce left over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne of Green Gables] Reference

We were drinking "Mamie Taylors" that summer, you may remember; and I had just brought up a pitcherful from the bar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking] Reference

One drop of muddy water does not show its pollution, but when you have a pitcherful of it you can see how thick it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference

You stand like a child going to be bathed, shivering and shaking till the first pitcherful is flung about your ears, and then are as blithe as a water-wagtail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference

Making it involves a few more steps than traditional brewed teas (and definitely more rigamarole than spooning mix into a pitcherful of water), but what a tasty change of pace.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

They set on a brimming pitcherful of cream to put in it; and we each had two cupfuls, at table, in consequence of which we all felt very bright and jolly throughout the evening.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine] Reference

When we take a pitcherful of water from the sea it has its weight, but when we take a dip into the sea itself a thousand pitchersful of water flow above our head, and we do not feel their weight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sadhana : the realisation of life] Reference

It was very desirable to obtain the "cream of the year" from the nearest spring, and maidens sat up till after midnight to obtain the first pitcherful of water, supposed to possess remarkable virtues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yule-Tide in Many Lands] Reference

How good they did taste, hungry as we were that night, along with some big slices of Gram's new "mug bread" and butter, and a plentiful swig of lemonade, a pitcherful of which Theodora had also set aside for us.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine] Reference

The biographer, especially of a literary man, need only mark the main currents of tendency, without being officious to trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books Second Series] Reference

I tried to make the missionary -- for such he proved to be upon acquaintance -- understand that the conditions in that desert country made the spring a valued property, and gave a price to every pitcherful of water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6] Reference

His imagination, excited by the frequent reading of novels of travel, had made him conceive a type of heroic, gallant, dashing sailor -- a regular swash-buckler capable of swallowing by the pitcherful the most rousing drinks without moving an eyelid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel] Reference

Fetch me a pitcherful, "she cried, almost excitedly, smiling significantly and, oh, so sweetly, as she passed me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Slave. A Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times--Hitherto Unwritten--From the Pen of One Who Has Felt Both the Lash and the Caress of a Mistress] Reference

"A white beard that reaches down to his waist, and if you'd put it into hot water it would yield more than a pitcherful of grease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Luna Benamor] Reference

"I wonder," mused Emma McChesney, "if that porter could be hypnotized into making some lemonade -- a pitcherful, with a lot of ice in it, and the cold sweat breaking out all over the glass?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roast Beef, Medium] Reference

Spring, in the character of "ethereal mildness," was unquestionably a female; but here she is "unsexed from the crown to the toe," and changed into an awkward hobbletehoy, who, having passed his boyhood in the country, is a booby who blushes black at the gaze of his own brother, and if brought into the company of the lasses, would not fail to faint away in a fit, nor revive till his face felt a pitcherful of cold water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2] Reference

But you are quite welcome to a pitcherful.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Anerley] Reference

Since the country has but few rivers, lakes, or large springs, and many used wells which they had dug, there was a law made, that, where there was a public well within a hippicon, that is, four furlongs, all should draw at that; but then it was farther off, they should try and procure a well of their own; and, if they had dug ten fathoms deep and could find no water, they had liberty to fetch a pitcherful of four gallons and a half in a day from their neighbors '; for he thought it prudent to make provision against want, but not to supply laziness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls] Reference

Since the country has but few rivers, lakes, or large springs, and many used wells which they had dug, there was a law made, that, where there was a public well within a hippicon, that is, four furlongs, all should draw at that; but, when it was farther off, they should try and procure a well of their own; and, if they had dug ten fathom deep and could find no water, they had liberty to fetch a pitcherful of four gallons and a half in a day from their neighbors’; for he thought it prudent to make provision against want, but not to supply laziness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference