Have some boiling lard (it is boiling when it ceases to bubble), and throw into itspoonsfulof the mixture.FromProject Gutenberg
The child ate two or threespoonsful; but her stomach soon turned against the food.FromProject Gutenberg
A sponge containing a table-spoonful of water is just as wet as one twice as large and containing twospoonsful.FromProject Gutenberg
Then he put a spoonful of milk and twospoonsfulof sugar into the bottom of the cup and filled it to the brim with steaming and very fragrant coffee.FromProject Gutenberg
Three largespoonsfulto be taken occasionally.FromProject Gutenberg
Now and then he has cried in the night from thirst, and a fewspoonsfulof cold water have sufficed to send him off to sleep again.FromProject Gutenberg
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