Then he raised hisfistful of grain and regarded it with equal levity, before turning to Si'Wren.
At this, Habrunt reached down and clenched his right hand around a fistful of grain stalks, and uprooted the clump up by the roots.
Kemp, running a fistful of snow over the blade of his hunting-knife and nodding his admiration.
What on earth are you doing with that horrid fistful of muck?
When Martin went home he did that, and he put the dish, mouth under, and the fistfulof flour beneath it.
Leaving his companions to tie up the prisoners, Boraki, munching at a mixed fistful of eclairs and canned salmon, sauntered forward to see all made snug in that part of the ship.
She had been permitted to pull the lanyard of the signal gun for half a dozen salutes, to put the match to several kicking rockets, and had just touched off her secondfistful of Roman candles when the trouble occurred.
So I stationed myself near by with a fistful of stones, and waited for the thieves to show themselves.
The pine, in its fall, had snatched with its wide-reaching, multitudinous roots at the shallow bottom and torn out a giant fistful of earth, leaving a hole about two feet deep and more than a dozen feet wide.
Every dozen paces Finaun would lean to the border of the road and pluck a fistful of prime grass or a thistle or a clutch of chickweed, and he would put these to the ass's mouth.
He picked a fistful of grass and thrust some of it into his mouth, but after a moment of difficulty he removed it again.
Stas was not given anything to eat, but old Dinah shoved into his hand a fistful of soaked durra, a certain amount of which she had stolen from the camels.
In the twinkling of an eye the string was cut, and plunging in a hand Small Porges brought up a fistful of shining sovereigns, and, among them, a crumpled banknote.
The adjutant stepped back into the depths of his tent, and presently returned with a fistful of cigars and an extra camp-stool.
Start me at two-forty,’ says I, scooping up a fistful of paper, and nodding up towards the clock.
Here," I went on, fetching a fistful out of my pocket, "are some guineas.
I wouldn't have touched him with the spur, short of utter necessity, for a fistful of guineas, and I soothed him, and then turned to look for what had upset him.
That was my fault; only I couldn't be changing it every time he soaked up a fistful of earth in his endeavor to wash something to eat out of it.
She raised the lid, dipped her hand into the tea-pot and drew out a fistful of money.
Once there he sat down on the capstan, put his hand in his pocket and brought out a fistful of money.
He suddenly folded up the map, returned it to me with a word of thanks, and plunging a hand in his trousers' pocket, produced a fistful of gold coins.
Had Salter Quick disregarded that warning, flashed his money about in some other public house, been followed to this out of the way spot and run through the heart for the sake of his fistful of sovereigns?
I reckon they think nothing of pulling out a fistful o' them things hereabouts, mister," he said.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fistful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
