Bowlfull

When indigestion begins, take large quantities of borage tea well sugared [212]; take 30 centigrammes of aloes (99), and, during the night, one or two bowlfulls of herb broth [104].

The Persians are surprised at our small doses of medicine; for their own physicians administer their drugs in large bowlsfull.

They stopped at the door and asked for milk; the mother brought them brimming bowlsfull and the shy little girl crept up behind her mother with her birch-bark baskets of berries.

In some localities the women will amuse themselves by dashing bowlsfull of water on the passers by.

All these ferry-boats, excepting the very smallest, form dwellings for their owners; and it is a curious sight towards evening to see them drawn up along the river bank, or up the creeks, in rows of three or four deep, with their occupants enjoying the evening meal, ladling into their mouths with chop-sticks bowlsfull of rice, or partaking of a more varied fare of vegetables, bits of pork, fish, or meat of a more questionable nature.

I haven’t been able to work up an appetite all week, and now suddenly I feel as if I could eat anything! A mountain of tortillas—two bowlsfull of chili, oranges and papayas—and oceans of wine to wash it all down with!

I told you not to drink two bowlfulls before you came out but of course you knew best.