What is "fistful"

Usage examples of "fistful".

Glumly he dug the large bottle out of his pocket, pried off the lid, and poured a fistful of antacid tablets into his palm.

It was Fili, shouting at Manaan, who was staring up at me as I shot another two fistfuls of fire off the mast and into the water.

Tugging her against him, Rik grasped a fistful of the gauzy stuff and pulled it upward.

He fell backward into the water while she teetered on the edge of the bank until Tiare grabbed a fistful of her gown and yanked her back.

Cursing her vanity of yesterday, Maria grabbed another fistful of dirt.

Hordes of them poured into our country with fistfuls of ruble notes that no one would take, and with a growing hunger that they could not appease.

I thought of different replies to that, communicative things like shoving fistfuls of gagga raisins down his throat.

Murakami, fistful of bloody excised stacks, shrugging back at me like a mirror.

The larch trees with their broken backs, the enormous black sky streaked with fistfuls of congealed fat, the abandoned Poor House that looked like a barn, the great brown dripping box of the Lutheran church bereft of sour souls, bereft of the hymn singers with poke bonnets and sunken and accusing horse faces and dreary choruses, a few weather-beaten cottages unlighted and tight to the dawn and filled, I could see at a glance, with the marvelous dry morality of calico and beans and lard, and then a privy, a blackened pile of tin cans, and even a rooster, a single live rooster strutting in a patch of weeds and losing his broken feathers, clutching his wattles, every moment or two trying to crow into the wind, trying to grub up the head of a worm with one of his snubbed-off claws, cankerous little bloodshot rooster pecking away at the dawn in the empty yard of some dead fisherman .

A test tube might hold a bouquet of delicate fungi, a cylindrical jar a fistful of blue spongy fingers, a tank a square meter of Chaga, growing up the walls and across the ceiling.

I took a fistful of coins from my pouch, but Roolie, grinning, shook his head.

Puffing, the officer caught a fistful of cornrows and jerked Star to her feet.

So far, maskers on the other floats had repelled these trouble-makers with fistfuls of thrown trinkets, but the Humpty Dumpty guardians were better equipped.

We handed him a fistful of moolah in exchange for a few hours of his precious time.

Every time I tried to pull myself up, my fistfuls of rockweed ripped out.