Carrying quantity

Usage examples of armful.

Kumul and Ager entered through the back door carrying armfuls of firewood.

But in the barracks he screamed and wept again, and as Foyle led him down the long room, the naked bawds swept up armfuls of dirty clothes and shook them before his eyes.

When he was coming into the bawn at dinner-time, what work did he find Jack at but pulling armfuls of the thatch off the roof, and peeping into the holes he was making?

The sidekick, or whoever she is, tugs a briefcase out of the limo and allows her armful of bumph to brim over on to the pavement.

Through the cockpit windshield he saw Lense rush toward Duffy, Wetzel and Copper right behind her, each of them clutching an armful of medical supplies and equipment.

With a sigh of relief, Neeve dropped the armful of clothes on the couch and started to straighten up.

Brown gave her an armful of thin, puce silk to hold, then rummaged through the pile and found a gown in green, heavily ribbed material with a quilted petticoat in ivory.

Armed with a pitcher of boiled drinking water, and a bottle of quinine tablets, closely attended by Mohammed carrying an armful of cheap trade blankets, she crossed to the rondavel and entered.

He goes on around the house, toting it in both arms like a armful of wood, it overlapping him on both ends, head and tail.

In the center of the clearing, in the full light of the warm morning sun, women and children knee-deep in grass gathered armfuls of yellow everlasting daisies, perfumed boronia, and rosy heath-myrtle, pushing the stems deep into the damp moss with which they had lined their baskets.

What the day before it had taken him three hours to make from striped pants, a jacketlike rag with bold checks, a brimless hat, and, with the help of an incomplete and ramshackle ladder, an armful of freshly cut willow switches, he tore down the following morning, to construct from the same materials an oddity of a very different race and faith, but which like its predecessor commanded birds to keep their distance.

I wondered if he was worried about Bult and had gone to check on him, but Bult was right here, with another armful of sticks.

Over on the other side of the street, and a little bit ahead of them, the gentlelady with the armful of fresh flowers and the embroidered bustier was drifting in the same direction at a deceptively easy pace.

That morning the women of the neighborhood had brought from the fields basil, marjoram, mint and yellow marguerites by the armful and had decked the corpse with them.

I made myself approach the black jungle, scooping up leaves by the armful and building a substantial pile of them where I had sat with Provo, against the downed log.