Cyprus: on the strength of this we each ate another two chupatties and a handful of raisins, finishing our meal with a quarter of a mugful of water.
Nevertheless, we were very glad to drink it and fill our water-bottles, though a secondmugful nearly made us sick, and we each had to eat a few sultanas to take away the taste.
To be precise, our day's ration consisted of one pint mugful of rice and Oxo each: liquid refreshment there was none.
It required a tremendous effort to force oneself to drink a mugfulof these muddy dregs.
Now, unable to do anything towards making good our escape, it required a big effort to drag oneself to one's feet for the purpose of fetching a mugful of porridge.
Meanwhile the Old Man and Cochrane had rejoined the three on the hill, who prepared them a welcome mugful of tea.
To save interruptions at the grinder we now feed in two parties of four, taking alternate brews: this means we get nearly a big mugful at a whack, at intervals of about three hours.
Each time nearly an hour was spent in drawing up water mugful by mugful till all available receptacles were full.
From this, thanks to a couple of water-holes dug with the adze by Perce, it was possible to collect about a mugful of water in an hour.
The water was about sixty feet down, and so cold that for all our thirst we could hardly drink a mugful each.
Here we cooked some rice and cocoa, which, although amounting to only half a mugful apiece, took some time to demolish, for in that temperature the food was long in cooling.
The four were able to enjoy two mugfuls of this between them, but could only induce the woman to give them one more mugful to take away for the others.
Leopold now turned his back on her; he went up to the table and seizing a carafe of water, he poured himself out a huge mugful and drank it down at a draught.
Yet occasionally that was all it proved possible to serve out to the men, and their ingenuity in dealing with that miserable mugful of flour often made me marvel.
It would require a clever cook to provide a man with three savoury and substantial meals out of a mugful of flour, about a pound of tough trek ox, and a pinch of tea.
The doctor had ordered potations of wine for Mary, and Mistress Forrester had produced a bottle of sack from her stores, a mugful of which Goody Pearse now held to Mary's pale lips.
He who could not produce a mugful of water could not draw a mugful of tea, and this was strictly adhered to.
Small blame to the drouthy ones; they know full well that by this day week they will be ready to pay Plymouth prices for a mugful o' something cooling," remarked a traveller.
He is a huge eater of salmon and divers dainties, and he will drink as much as a mugful of cider before the night is past.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mugful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
