Usage examples for basketful
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This morning Aunt Bettie came up my front steps before breakfast with a large basketful of things for my dinner, and I wondered what I would have collected to be served to those people by the time all my neighbours had made their prize contributions. – The Melting of Molly by Maria Thompson Daviess
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Meantime in the tea- room- that opens off the supper- room, where the others are engaged- Molly and Philip are busy arranging bouquets chosen from among a basketful of flowers that has just been brought in by one of the under- gardeners. – Molly Bawn by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
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You need only give me a jug of wine and a basketful of chestnuts, and leave me alone in my room. – The Blue Rose Fairy Book by Maurice Baring