Tip the pot and spoon off most of the fat – there may be as much as a mugful of it – being careful to leave behind all the coagulated milk clusters. |
A little while later I relaxed my inactivity long enough to make a pot of tea and take a steaming mugful out. |
In another, a man sits down for a bath, pouring grey water by the mugful over his head. |
Because there is, to extend a tenuous metaphor, a good mugful of murky stuff beneath. |
Prepare one large mug of milky coffee and one smaller, stronger mugful, easy on the white stuff. |
But the simple pleasures of a campfire, a mugful of whisky and a book read by torch-light made the long, dark nights something to look forward to. |