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Meanings of gathering a handful in English
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Usage of gathering a handful in English
1
Most of the girls succeeded in gathering a handful, before they started on.
2
And the man replied, 'Why, I've merely been gathering a handful of brushwood.'
3
He swung the boat round, and gathering a handful, threw them at the feet of Dawn.
4
Mrs. --whilst gathering a handful of fine green-peas, suddenly stooped, and looking earnestly at the ground, called to me-
5
Philip made all the haste that was compatible with gathering a handful of wild hyacinth and meadow narcissus for poor Maria.
6
I had nothing else to do, and so gathering a handful, I sat down on a buffalo skull to study them.
7
Between this latter branch and Terrapin Wood was a stony hill; to this spot Hazel went, and fell to gathering a handful of poppies.
8
He was gathering a handful of sticks from the back of their lean-to, where the protection of their own bodies had kept that kindling dry.