The onset was giuen in the straits, greatlie to the aduantage of the Romans, being but a handfull in comparison to their enimies.
We throw a handfull of powder in the fire to make a greater noise and smoake.
To see him kisse his hand, and how most sweetly a will sweare: And his Page atother side, that handfull of wit, Ah heauens, it is most patheticall nit.
I had rather haue a handfull or two of dried pease.
You may put in a handfull or two of Damask Rose leaves dryed, which will somewhat better the sent.
THis feate cannot be performed at every time, but onely in Winter, and at such times as snow may be had, and he that will shew it must have in readinesse an handfull of salt.
Take a handfull of hartstong that groweth in the field, and a handfull of bay salt, and beat them both together in a morter, and lay this to both the wrists.
In setting hearbs, leaue no top more then anhandfull aboue the ground, nor more then a foot vnder the earth.
You must cut him close at the roote ende, an handfullvnder the knot.
Of such wounds, and lesser, of any bough cut off a handfull or more from the body, comes hollownesse, and vntimely death.
Garlicke may be set an handfull distance, two inches deepe, in the edge of your beds.
Cabbages require great roome, they seed the second yeare: sow them in February, remoue them when the plants are an handfull long, set deepe and wet.
Vpon this stood the forme of the vessell aforesaid one handfull and a halfe broader, which halfe handfull was distributed to the border, about the brimme of foulding leaues and flowers standing out from the hyacinth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "handfull" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
