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  • The first section was rather what Reynie would have expected — one or two questions regarding octagons and hexagons, another devoted to bushels of this and kilograms of that, and another that required calculating how much time must pass before two speeding trains collided.†   (source)
  • We walked through the strawberry fields, where campers were picking bushels of berries while a satyr played a tune on a reed pipe.†   (source)
  • Good turnip greens, eggplant, okra by the bushel, all kind a gourds.†   (source)
  • 06 a bushel for corn.†   (source)
  • While people carried bushels of rice, bundles of wood, to the square and women pounded rice in mortars, removing the husk from its seeds, Bra Spider was stretching the ropes on his verandah and measuring their length.†   (source)
  • Twenty thousand bushels corn @ two-fifty per bushel: make that fifty thousand bucks; four thousand bushels beans @ six even per bushel, so another twenty-four thousand bucks.†   (source)
  • We sail most of the distance upriver, squashed between bushels of wheat on the barge of a benevolent farmer Gisa befriended years ago.†   (source)
  • That's why you get fixed rents, where the landlord says, I get twenty bushels, regardless of the harvest, and if it's really good, you get the extra.†   (source)
  • …her gravely to buy fresh milk for the boy in Sidewinder as long as it was feasible), five twelve-pound bags of sugar, a gallon jug of blackstrap molasses, cereals, glass jugs of rice, macaroni, spaghetti; ranked cans of fruit and fruit salad; a bushel of fresh apples that scented the whole room with autumn; dried raisins, prunes, and apricots ("You got to be regular if you want to be happy," Hallorann said, and pealed laughter at the coldpantry ceiling, where one old-fashioned light…†   (source)
  • Every day they bestowed upon the statue of Bel twelve bushels of flour, forty sheep, and fifty gallons of wine.†   (source)
  • Near her in a bushel basket was the three-week-old baby.†   (source)
  • At lunch hour, while Mother and I ping-ponged back and forth from the spicy smoke in the kitchen to the tables where we served office workers and city employees and cops, Baba worked the register—Baba and his grease-stained white shirt, the bushel of gray chest hair spilling over the open top button, his thick, hairy forearms.†   (source)
  • Several grubby urchins stood around a bushel basket on the table, clutching winter apples.†   (source)
  • Her eyes focused on a spot around his chin, and they stood like this, in silence, for a moment, and the man repeated himself, a bit less steadily the second time, and then, without robbing the cooperative, or shooting Nadia, he left, taking his gun and cursing and kicking over a bushel of lumpy apples as he went.†   (source)
  • That's why I'm there-to pick myself a bushel of diamonds.†   (source)
  • Moody and Mammal drove to the market and brought home bushels full of fresh fruits, sweets, and nuts.†   (source)
  • Why does he insist on hiding his light under a bushel?†   (source)
  • He pointed to a small bag he kept in a bushel basket near the door, but she'd shaken her head.†   (source)
  • He'd talked to her for over an hour, then, besotted, bought an entire bushel of cucumbers.†   (source)
  • And bushels of money.†   (source)
  • Bertha and Nathan send their love, and I send mine, by the bushel, by the barrel, by the tun.†   (source)
  • The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow.†   (source)
  • An inventory of British goods compiled by Thomas Mifflin, now the quartermaster general, listed 5,000 bushels of wheat at the Hancock wharf, 1,000 bushels of beans and 10 tons of hay at the town granary, 35,000 feet of good planks at one of the lumberyards.†   (source)
  • We were averaging ten bushels of oysters a day.†   (source)
  • She jumps up to give me a big hug, and knocks over a bushel of peaches.†   (source)
  • Two bushels, might be.†   (source)
  • In September, a bushel of wheat had cost eleven dollars; it had cost thirty dollars in November; it had cost one hundred in December; it was now approaching the price of two hundred-while the printing presses of the government treasury were running a race with starvation, and losing.†   (source)
  • Looking about, Max saw sacks of grain and bushel baskets of apples stacked next to oil paintings and bronze statuary.†   (source)
  • Each slave received eight pounds of pickled pork or its equivalent in fish, one bushel of Indian meal (corn meal), one pint of salt.†   (source)
  • I've a bushel of letters from the gaggle and Adam.†   (source)
  • "Thirty bushels of corn an acre is what we want," she said.†   (source)
  • The value I saw someone calculate in Wired on a standard dry bushel of it is a hundred billion dollars.†   (source)
  • They also grew 1355 bushels of yellow corn, 166 bushels of cabbage, 25 tons of tomatoes and 800 bushels of spinach.†   (source)
  • He knew that Dan brought them oranges by the bushel, and Randy sent them fish whenever there was a surplus catch.†   (source)
  • I have nearly finished my looming [1, scrubbed the dining room and kitchen, picked up three or four bushels of walnuts, I washed yesterday and found two hen's nests with sixteen eggs in them.†   (source)
  • It was a shame, she felt, that he only played when alone, hiding his candle under a bushel.†   (source)
  • In the kitchen she drew up short beside a bushel basket of tomatoes.†   (source)
  • Not forty thousand rubles, of course-forty thousand bushels.†   (source)
  • Gruff Ben Butler exclaimed of Ross, "There is a bushel of money!†   (source)
  • Did you pay a bushel of potatoes for him?   (source)
  • Refreshed by food, Dill recited this narrative: having been bound in chains and left to die in the basement (there were basements in Meridian) by his new father, who disliked him, and secretly kept alive on raw field peas by a passing farmer who heard his cries for help (the good man poked a bushel pod by pod through the ventilator), Dill worked himself free by pulling the chains from the wall.   (source)
  • A full bushel to anyone who captures him alive!   (source)
  • 'Animal Hero, Second Class,' and half a bushel of apples to any animal who brings him to justice.   (source)
  • "Ari," he called to one of the boys standing near the bushel basket.†   (source)
  • But that year, the price the grain elevator co-op paid for a bushel of corn was only about $1.†   (source)
  • I begged them to send telegrams on Anatole's behalf, and they will, by the bushel.†   (source)
  • At that price Naylor would have lost more than a dollar on every bushel of corn.†   (source)
  • NINETY THOUSAND KERNELS Let's imagine a bushel of number 2 field corn.†   (source)
  • One bushel holds about ninety thousand kernels.†   (source)
  • New hybrids have increased farm yields to about 180 bushels per acre.†   (source)
  • American farmers produce thirteen billion bushels of corn a year.†   (source)
  • At one end it eats millions of bushels of corn fed to it every day by the trainload.†   (source)
  • That's up from four billion bushels in 1970.†   (source)
  • That car was joined to a train more than a mile long, holding 440,000 bushels of corn.†   (source)
  • John provided them seven fresh turkeys and bushels of yams, carrots and peas.†   (source)
  • Two of the Hajin carry bushels of bright red poppies gathered from the fields below.†   (source)
  • About fifty men and women were shooting balls through a bushel basket.†   (source)
  • Raking leaves for Mr. Hodges, he had gone into the cellar for two bushel baskets to put them in.†   (source)
  • The foul tribe had cheated him of a full bushel.†   (source)
  • To Leathers he said, "I'll send out a bushel of vegetables for him and meat for you.†   (source)
  • Even if it had sold for ten dollars a bushel, me and Granpa could not have made a living at it.†   (source)
  • You give me a belly laugh now and I'll give you a whole bushel of plum tomatoes.'†   (source)
  • "That should buy you a bushel o' barleycorn.†   (source)
  • They've a bushel of poppies, and they argue with the Hajin over the price.†   (source)
  • Twenty thousand bushels corn @ two-fifty per bushel: make that fifty thousand bucks; four thousand bushels beans @ six even per bushel, so another twenty-four thousand bucks.†   (source)
  • Victories—finishing the last of a field just before a rain—and defeats—the price of corn dropping thirty cents a bushel in a single day; the strange transforming mix of power and exhaustion.†   (source)
  • Once the Bishop had concluded the meeting and Emile had gone off grumbling in search of his bushel of beets, the Count accompanied Andrey to the main staircase.†   (source)
  • A neighbor down the road had a mean goose and hogs, whose manure Mother toted home daily like a good African in two balanced bushel pails.†   (source)
  • He lay the bread on the table next to the bushel basket and all the children's eyes fixed on him attentively My stomach went sour.†   (source)
  • Most magically, tile produced prosperity—more bushels per acre of a better crop, year after year, wet or dry.†   (source)
  • The Metropol's larder was depleted bushel by bushel, pound by pound, dash by dash, and its chef was left to meet the expectations of his audience with cornmeal, cauliflower, and cabbage—that is to say, with whatever he could get his hands on.†   (source)
  • And then Harold lets drop some detail, about money, or bushels per acre, that shows that in spite of his foolishness, he outdid everybody.†   (source)
  • Only then did Derma and I emerge from our hiding place, me carrying my travelsack, she with the heavy oilskin bag that held all the resin we'd found, nearly a full bushel of it.†   (source)
  • When 'we' bought the first tractor in the county, when 'we' built the big house, when 'we' had the crops sprayed from the air, when 'we' got a car, when 'we' drained Mel's corner, when 'we' got a hundred and seventy-two bushels an acre.†   (source)
  • I mean, when his income comes solely from the farm, and he's got to make up his mind about the fuel and the time for another pass through the beans, or maybe getting forty-three bushels an acre instead of forty-seven.†   (source)
  • One bushel holds 56 pounds of kernels, so 180 bushels is slightly more than 10,000 pounds of food per acre.†   (source)
  • When George Naylor delivers his truckload of corn, it is weighed and graded and his account is credited with that day's price per bushel.†   (source)
  • I should have known that tracing a single bushel of industrial corn is as impossible as tracing a bucket of water after it's been poured into a river.†   (source)
  • Add it all up and you find that every bushel of corn from an industrial farm requires about half a gallon of oil to grow.†   (source)
  • 50 to grow a bushel of corn.†   (source)
  • One bushel holds 56 pounds of kernels, so 180 bushels is slightly more than 10,000 pounds of food per acre.†   (source)
  • Hybrid corn quadrupled the yields of farmers, from about twenty bushels per acre to about eighty bushels per acre.†   (source)
  • "I'd hoped to discover bushel baskets of juicy secrets to while away the waiting, but there's not a paper to be found."†   (source)
  • The completed list included such immediate necessities for Adams as ink, paper, account books, twenty-five quill pens, a dozen clay pipes, tobacco, and a pocket-size pistol; but also two hogs, two "fat sheep," six dozen chickens and five bushels of corn, fourteen dozen eggs, a keg of rum, a barrel of madeira, four dozen bottles of port wine, tea, chocolate, brown sugar, mustard, pepper, a box of wafers, a bag of Indian meal, and a barrel of apples.†   (source)
  • But she wasn't, and by the time she came in with a bag of groceries and a bushel basket of ironing for the weekend I was over it for the most part.†   (source)
  • He say he got two bushels for me.†   (source)
  • If another got a half bushel of tomatoes or a dozen ears of corn, they ate them until they were gone too.†   (source)
  • She was dragging a large five-bushel basket of what looked like brambles, and a woman was pushing the other side of it, saying, "Watch the doorsill, baby."†   (source)
  • They filled lard buckets with wild strawberries and gooseberries, and apples by the bushel, made jams and pies, and canned the rest.†   (source)
  • Six coppers for a melon, a silver stag for a bushel of corn, a dragon for a side of beef or six skinny piglets.†   (source)
  • Eight killers swung from the walls, and the Unsullied had filled a bushel basket with bloody hands and soft red worms, but Meereen was calm again.†   (source)
  • In 1930, when I was five years old, a bushel of corn sold for twenty-five cents; that is, if you could find anybody that would buy a bushel of corn.†   (source)
  • Day after day, we harvested truckloads of watermelons, bushels of sweet potatoes and thousands of tomatoes.†   (source)
  • I can let you have a bushel wholesale.†   (source)
  • Uncle Paul gone bring me two bushels.†   (source)
  • Behind her, several Hajin sort through bushels of poppies, selecting only the brightest blooms, discarding the rest.†   (source)
  • Almost unconsciously, he picked up a plum tomato from the top of one of the bushels and took a voracious bite.†   (source)
  • Why don't you hop out back to the lemon trees and pick us a bushel, and some nice olives and pomegranates too."†   (source)
  • The bomb bay, the rear and tail sections of the plane and most of the top turret gunner's section were all filled with bushels of chick-peas when they arrived at the airfield to take off for Malta.†   (source)
  • With a pensive expression on his oblong, rather pale face, he allowed his gaze to settle on several of the high bushels filled with red plum tomatoes that stood in rows against each of the walls.†   (source)
  • 'I just don't trust him,' Milo brooded in the plane, with a backward nod toward Orr, who was curled up like a tangled rope on the low bushels of chick-peas, trying torturedly to sleep.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart began tramping back and forth reflectively in the narrow corridors left between his bushels of plum tomatoes and the desk and wooden chairs in the center of the room.†   (source)
  • He was surrounded by bushels of plum tomatoes and was almost convinced that he had stood in Colonel Cathcart's office on some similar occasion deep in the past and had been surrounded by those same bushels of those same plum tomatoes. deja vu again.†   (source)
  • After a while he realized that he was staring at rows and rows of bushels of red plum tomatoes and grew so intrigued by the question of what bushels brimming with red plum tomatoes were doing in a group commander's office that he forgot completely about the discussion of prayer meetings until Colonel Cathcart, in a genial digression, inquired: 'Would you like to buy some, Chaplain?†   (source)
  • In July Randy had gone to Rita Hernandez and she had traded five pounds of salt to him for three large bass, a bushel of Valencias, and four buckshot shells.†   (source)
  • He does bushel business down by that church on Twenty-eighth.†   (source)
  • He brought in a few bushels of coal, then lingered, asking me if I were cold.†   (source)
  • Money still had a definite value in hours worked and bushels of grain sold.†   (source)
  • You bought a bushel of coal for twenty-five cents.†   (source)
  • So I'm going to charge you twenty bushels of corn against your crop.†   (source)
  • But twenty bushels of corn seems a little high for a man in your circumstances to have to pay.†   (source)
  • And the conscience shall be thrust down; the light of life shall not be extinguished, but be put under a bushel, to be preserved for a generation that will live by it again, in some day not yet come; and how it will come, and when it will come, we shall not think about at all.†   (source)
  • There were two horseshoes nailed on the door—five statues bought from pilgrims, with the used-up rosaries wound round them—for beads break, if one is a good prayer—several bunches of fairy-flax laid on top of the salt-box—some scapulars wound round the poker— twenty bottles of mountain dew, all empty but one—about a bushel of withered palm, relic of Palm Sundays for the past seventy years—and plenty of woollen thread for tying round the cow's tail when she was calving.†   (source)
  • And I had five hams sent and ten pounds of side meat and God knows how many bushels of yams and Irish potatoes.†   (source)
  • My mother was in the basement canning a bushel of early peaches and I went down casually to tell her it was Jack who had just called.†   (source)
  • He's out huntin' up uh few mo' bushels.†   (source)
  • You take a bushel of grapes….†   (source)
  • I reported each night at ten, got a huge pail of water, a bushel of soap flakes and, with a gang of moppers, I worked.†   (source)
  • There was nothing to do, after they had gathered several bushels of dried beans to save over and sell to the planters in the fall.†   (source)
  • That he was a shrewd trader brought him Scarlett's respect, for he could ride out in the mornings with a bushel or two of apples, sweet potatoes and other vegetables and return with seeds, lengths of cloth, flour and other necessities which she knew she could never have acquired, good trader though she was.†   (source)
  • Kitty brought my old heavy sweater from an upstairs closet and I carried up three clean bushel baskets from the basement.†   (source)
  • He won't git no twenty bushels!†   (source)
  • My father spent the morning in the garden, straightening out vegetable rows with a hoe and piling up a heap of pulled weeds in an empty bushel basket, stopping now and then to wipe the sweat from his forehead.†   (source)
  • Bushels?†   (source)
  • Yeah, bushels.†   (source)
  • I hold you in damages to Major de Spain to the amount of ten bushels of corn over and above your contract with him, to be paid to him out of your crop at gathering time.†   (source)
  • But he did not, he merely retreated to the rear of the room, crowded as that other had been, but not to sit down this time, instead, to stand pressing among the motionless bodies, listening to the voices: "And you claim twenty bushels of corn is too high for the damage you did to the rug?"†   (source)
  • But instead his father passed on behind the wagon, merely indicating with his hand for the older brother to follow with it, and he crossed the road toward the blacksmith shop opposite, pressing on after his father, overtaking him, speaking, whispering up at the harsh, calm face beneath the weathered hat: "He won't git no ten bushels neither.†   (source)
  • Maybe even that twenty bushels that seems hard to have to pay for just a rug will be a cheap price for him to stop forever and always from being what he used to be; thinking, dreaming now, so that his brother had to speak sharply to him to mind the mule: Maybe he even won't collect the twenty bushels.†   (source)
  • And warn't the cooking good, and just bushels of it too!†   (source)
  • That old penny's worth of happiness he had spent for this bushel of content.†   (source)
  • Shining quietly behind a bushel of Wicklow bran.†   (source)
  • "The man hasn't brought my coal, either," said Carrie, who ordered by the bushel.†   (source)
  • One kind they dump on me like a bushel of potatoes.†   (source)
  • Being careful about words, when there's millions of bushels off wheat here!†   (source)
  • We sold about eight bushels and sowed a rood.†   (source)
  • I got twelve bushels of beans, and eighteen bushels of potatoes, beside some peas and sweet corn.†   (source)
  • I do not wish to hide my light under a bushel, and yer welcome to all ye'll learn.†   (source)
  • How many heartfuls of sorrow shall balance a bushel of wheat?†   (source)
  • I have never, to this hour, got the better of that bushel of wheat.†   (source)
  • When chestnuts were ripe I laid up half a bushel for winter.†   (source)
  • But if I had bushels of it, I would not show as much as would make a cartridge without knowing why.†   (source)
  • At the rate of nine hundred milrays the bushel.†   (source)
  • "And there's two bushels of biffins for apple-pies," said Maryann.†   (source)
  • 200 8 dozen pints beer, in the wood …… 800 3 bushels wheat ….†   (source)
  • But Frink went on resolutely, "You take and save the shells from peas, and pour six gallons of water on a bushel of shells and boil the mixture till—"†   (source)
  • I spoke of an instance where one of our graduates had produced two hundred and sixty-six bushels of sweet potatoes from an acre of ground, in a community where the average production had been only forty-nine bushels to the acre.†   (source)
  • If we employ an arbitrary symbol, and pay, say, five dollars a day for farm work, then the cost of a bushel of wheat is fifty cents.†   (source)
  • When they began feeding again Kotick saw that their upper lip was split into two pieces that they could twitch apart about a foot and bring together again with a whole bushel of seaweed between the splits.†   (source)
  • As each bin was filled it was measured out in bushel baskets into a huge bag called a poke; and this the measurer and the pole-puller carried off between them and put on the waggon.†   (source)
  • He asked the veterinarian about the value of different breeds of stock; he inquired of Lyman Cass whether or not Einar Gyseldson really had had a yield of forty bushels of wheat to the acre.†   (source)
  • If his notions of hidden treasure had been analyzed, they would have been found to consist of a handful of real dimes and a bushel of vague, splendid, ungraspable dollars.†   (source)
  • The name of this merchant, adventurer, sometime adviser of a Malay sultan (to whom he never alluded otherwise than as "my poor Mohammed Bonso"), had, on account of a few bushels of dead insects, become known to learned persons in Europe, who could have had no conception, and certainly would not have cared to know anything, of his life or character.†   (source)
  • At intervals the measurer went his round from bin to bin, accompanied by the booker, who entered first in his own book and then in the hopper's the number of bushels picked.†   (source)
  • The same day he said: "I think this Italian up here on the corner sells coal at twenty-five cents a bushel.†   (source)
  • The million workers in the nation's wheat fields have worked a hundred days each, and the total product of the labor is a billion bushels, so the value of a bushel of wheat is the tenth part of a farm labor-day.†   (source)
  • "Well, in that case, Carlo, just bring me a hunk o' steak and a couple o' bushels o' French fried potatoes and some peas," Rogers went on.†   (source)
  • The million workers in the nation's wheat fields have worked a hundred days each, and the total product of the labor is a billion bushels, so the value of a bushel of wheat is the tenth part of a farm labor-day.†   (source)
  • They boasted about the number of bushels they had picked in a day, but they complained you could not make money now as in former times: then they paid you a shilling for five bushels, but now the rate was eight and even nine bushels to the shilling.†   (source)
  • The news is, that after Miss Everdene got home she went out again to see all was safe, as she usually do, and coming in found Baily Pennyways creeping down the granary steps with half a a bushel of barley.†   (source)
  • Among them I remember a double set of pigs' trotters, a huge pin-cushion, half a bushel or so of apples, a pair of jet earrings, some Spanish onions, a box of dominoes, a canary bird and cage, and a leg of pickled pork.†   (source)
  • "There is richer soil in the bottoms," returned the old man calmly, "and you have passed millions of acres to get to this dreary spot, where he who loves to till the 'arth might have received bushels in return for pints, and that too at the cost of no very grievous labour.†   (source)
  • Still rolling in his blood, at last he partially disclosed a strangely discoloured bunch or protuberance, the size of a bushel, low down on the flank.†   (source)
  • Similarly, during two or three hours of drawl, and the winnowing of many bushels of words, Madame Defarge's frequent expressions of impatience were taken up, with marvellous quickness, at a distance: the more readily, because certain men who had by some wonderful exercise of agility climbed up the external architecture to look in from the windows, knew Madame Defarge well, and acted as a telegraph between her and the crowd outside the building.†   (source)
  • Who the devil do you think will dig for coal when, in hunting for a bushel. he would have to rip up more of trees than would keep him in fuel for a twelvemonth?†   (source)
  • The men and women slaves received, as their monthly allowance of food, eight pounds of pork, or its equivalent in fish, and one bushel of corn meal.†   (source)
  • Outer doors of chambers are shut up by the score, messages and parcels are to be left at the Porter's Lodge by the bushel.†   (source)
  • Snuff-boxes were given away in profusion (as we learned from the Court jeweller, who sold and afterwards bought them again), and bushels of the Order of Saint Michael of Pumpernickel were sent to the nobles of the Court, while hampers of the cordons and decorations of the Wheel of St. Catherine of Schlippenschloppen were brought to ours.†   (source)
  • However, the very same evening William Larkins came over with a large basket of apples, the same sort of apples, a bushel at least, and I was very much obliged, and went down and spoke to William Larkins and said every thing, as you may suppose.†   (source)
  • Clandestinely we made a few bushels of first-rate blasting powder, and I superintended my armorers while they constructed a lightning-rod and some wires.†   (source)
  • If another Gunpowder Plot had been discovered half an hour before the lighting of the match, nobody would have been justified in saving the parliament until there had been half a score of boards, half a bushel of minutes, several sacks of official memoranda, and a family-vault full of ungrammatical correspondence, on the part of the Circumlocution Office.†   (source)
  • The click of a lock followed, and there was a sifting and rustling; then a discussion about so many ounces to the bushel, and drying, and refrigerating, and so on.†   (source)
  • You can't hide a candle under a bushel; but I'll undertake to prepare Piotr in a fitting manner, and bring him on to the field of battle.'†   (source)
  • Laurie devoted himself to the little ones, rode his small daughter in a bushel-basket, took Daisy up among the bird's nests, and kept adventurous Rob from breaking his neck.†   (source)
  • There was no longer any slope, for the corpses had levelled the road with the plain, and reached the brim like a well-filled bushel of barley.†   (source)
  • On my objecting to this retreat, he took us into another room with a dinner-table for thirty, and in the grate a scorched leaf of a copy-book under a bushel of coal-dust.†   (source)
  • He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm.†   (source)
  • Moreover, this being at a time before home-brewing was abandoned by the smaller victuallers, and a house in which the twelve-bushel strength was still religiously adhered to by the landlord in his ale, the quality of the liquor was the chief attraction of the premises, so that everything had to make way for utensils and operations in connection therewith.†   (source)
  • How many bushels?†   (source)
  • Lands gone out of cultivation, overgrown with weeds, or divided among the peasants, and where millions of bushels were raised you get a hundred thousand; the wealth of the country has decreased.†   (source)
  • Knowledge is not to be concealed, like a candle under a bushel," "Richard," said the Judge, turning to his cousin, "there are many reasons against the truth of thy conjectures, but thou hast awakened suspicions which must be satisfied.†   (source)
  • The meat lay uncovered in the bottom of the wagon,—a great thin side of fat pork covered with salt; the meal was in a white bushel bag.†   (source)
  • …find him equally at his ease within the prison; to hear of his presenting himself among the visitors at her father's Sunday levee; to see him arm in arm with a Collegiate friend about the yard; to learn, from Fame, that he had greatly distinguished himself one evening at the social club that held its meetings in the Snuggery, by addressing a speech to the members of the institution, singing a song, and treating the company to five gallons of ale—report madly added a bushel of shrimps.†   (source)
  • There were four slaves of us in the kitchen—my sister Eliza, my aunt Priscilla, Henny, and myself; and we were allowed less than a half of a bushel of corn-meal per week, and very little else, either in the shape of meat or vegetables.†   (source)
  • While down in this situation, Mr. Covey took up the hickory slat with which Hughes had been striking off the half-bushel measure, and with it gave me a heavy blow upon the head, making a large wound, and the blood ran freely; and with this again told me to get up.†   (source)
  • That about the price of wheat per bushel, I modestly felt was too much for my strength, and quite settled the question.†   (source)
  • …through the intervening country, bristling with custom-houses, garrisoned by an immense army of shabby mendicants in uniform who incessantly repeated the Beggar's Petition over it, as if every individual warrior among them were the ancient Belisarius: and of whom there were so many Legions, that unless the Courier had expended just one bushel and a half of silver money relieving their distresses, they would have worn the wardrobe out before it got to Rome, by turning it over and over.†   (source)
  • In the course of the winter I threw out half a bushel of ears of sweet corn, which had not got ripe, on to the snow-crust by my door, and was amused by watching the motions of the various animals which were baited by it.†   (source)
  • A couple of young black fellows passed us in a muleteam, with several bushels of loose corn in the ear.†   (source)
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