| On the water, handfuls of gaudy drakes, cloaked in vivid breeding plumage, jockey for position near sought-after hens. |
| And of all the flowers I sowed this spring only a handfuls of poppies and marigolds have come up. |
| He dropped to his knees and gathered up handfuls of dust and smeared them on his forehead and chest, crying aloud in anguish. |
| All six of us grabbed handfuls from the box and ducking and diving behind tables, we started full-scale cream cracker warfare. |
| The snow came down in handfuls and cars jackknifed to the left and right of us as we drove east on unplowed streets. |
| Into this torrential sewer had unthinkable generations of ulsios pushed their few handsful of dirt in the excavating of their vast labyrinth. |
