Sacksful

-- A quantity of _túba_ varying from one-half to two sacksful is put into a dugout and brought to the spot selected. ❋ John M. Garvan (N/A)

My father started for Wigtown that very night, while Esther and I followed a few days afterwards, bearing with us two potato-sacksful of learned books, and such other of our household effects that were worth the trouble and expense of transport. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)

Esther and I laughed at the grandiloquent manner in which he spoke of the two potato-sacksful of books. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)

Mouchers come along the road at all times and seasons, gathering sacksful of dandelions in spring, digging up fern roots and cowslip mars for sale, cutting briars for standard roses, gathering water-cresses and mushrooms, and in the winter cutting rushes. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

She went down into the garden and strewed with her own hands ten sacksful of millet-seed on the grass; then she said: 'Tomorrow morning before sunrise these must be picked up, and not a single grain be wanting.' ❋ Wilhelm Grimm (1822)

It seemed that the yellowy-white blotches raised the animal's value above that of sacksful of rubies, and the painting of the face and sides served two purposes; one to render it easier for the animal to find favour in the eyes of the gods, the other to bring about the same result in the eyes of man; even as does woman when she accentuates the night blackness of her eyes with antimony; and the slenderness of her finger-tips with henna. ❋ Joan Conquest (N/A)