Mouthful

(noun.) the quantity that can be held in the mouth.

手打:瓦内萨

• While there's a handful of fire or a mouthful of bed in this present roof, you're fully welcome to your share on it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Have the goodness to give me a little glass of old cognac, and a mouthful of cool fresh water, madame. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I took another mouthful and some cheese and a rinse of wine. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• I shall take a mere mouthful of ham and a glass of ale, he said, reassuringly. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I ate them by two or three at a mouthful, and took three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket bullets. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Their geese and turkeys I usually ate at a mouthful, and I confess they far exceed ours. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• A mouthful did it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• When it was given him, he drank his Majesty's health and compliments of the season, and took it all at a mouthful and smacked his lips. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Let us open the window a bit and get a mouthful of air. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He never ate a mouthful of food on the journey except the grass he could pick within the length of his picket rope. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Then, withdrawing his hand and swallowing his mouthful of chop, he said to Stephen: 'Now you know, this good lady is a born lady, a high lady. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Mr. Bounderby stayed her, by holding a mouthful of chop in suspension before swallowing it, and putting out his left hand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• A dish of their meat was a good mouthful, and a barrel of their liquor a reasonable draught. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• It was very hot and at the first mouthful I had to take a drink of beer to cool my mouth. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• We shall have time for a mouthful of dinner before we need go. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Mr Kibble, an unctuous broad man of few words and many mouthfuls, said, more briefly than pointedly, raising his ale to his lips: 'Same to you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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