| 单词 | capful |
| 例句 | She poured a capful of yellow liquid into the water, and bubbles began to fill the tub. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I take the bleach, pour a capful into the bucket of water so I can mop. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z We also added just a capful of vinegar to homemade navy bean soup, and it really improved the flavor! Perspective | Hints From Heloise: The apple pie that isn’t 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z Photograph: Warner Brothers He sips a capful of the Famous Grouse I’ve brought along. Jeremy Irons: ‘I have the natural tendency of a benign dictator’ 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Here’s another suggestion: I like to add one or more capfuls of vinegar to homemade navy bean soup. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: This steel got stained 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z We had a demijohn holding a gallon of fresh water and our ration was one capful – about three teaspoons – a day. Experience: I survived 15 days adrift on a raft 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Other family members were told the tuna amounted to about half a capful from the top of a soda bottle - and that the only water they could drink tasted of oil. Chile miners do not disclose ordeal details 2010-10-15T14:09:00Z Mix one capful of a clear hand dishwashing detergent, such as Dawn, with about two cups of lukewarm water. Advice | How to remove gummy residue from hardwood floors 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z After she and her partner handed over the presents, the kids took them to a park to share capfuls of different flavors with their friends. Prime drinks are going viral in real life. It’s all about status. 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z The effectiveness of the testing, in which a small drug sample is dissolved in scarcely a capful of water into which a strip is then dipped, relies completely on the user’s compliance. Fentanyl Test Strips Highlight Rift in Nation’s Struggle to Combat Drug Deaths 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z For that, he recommends using a capful of Dawn hand dishwashing detergent in a pint of lukewarm water. How to remove gummy buildup from wood furniture 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Terry fills the pot about a quarter full of the bark potting material and then adds a capful of his granular fertilizer and mixes it well into the bark. The 'Black Thumb' is here to stop you from killing orchids 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z On the black market, homemade GHB — also known as liquid ecstasy, goop and G — can be bought by the capful for $5-$25. FDA approves GHB, a ‘date rape’ drug, for rare sleeping disorder 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z After my shower, as I am drying off, I pour a partial capful of amber Listerine across my toes, using my fingers to work it between and under them. A splash of Listerine for athlete’s foot 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Gosman Kabirov, an environmental activist from the nearby town of Chelyabinsk, poured a capful of the raspberry syrup onto a piece of cardboard and held his radioactivity dosimeter up to it. Radiation levels near this Siberian village were 1,000 times above normal last fall. But no one worried much 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z “When you see retail level GHB distributors in night clubs or at rave parties or at parties at peoples’ house, they sell GHB by the capful. Auburn lab technician accused of selling ‘date rape’ drug 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z A capful diluted in juice made her regular, but the problem returned when she tried to wean her off it. Miralax, a Drug for Adults, Is Popular as a Children’s Remedy 2012-05-26T01:58:08Z It was no “capful of wind,” but a veritable tempest, which broke over the devoted ship. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z But he has passed by a capful of names. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z "Under my hat I did haff a capful of shillings," replied Shemuel, weakly; "I—I go back—two days' time to find me my money by dot Lechemere swamp—eh, Jack?" Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Had I encountered a capful of wind during that voyage, I could scarcely have finished it. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century 2012-02-03T03:00:18.817Z “For a capful, if you like,” said Jill, merrily; “may I have your cap to hold it in?” Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z We watched for a long time until we made out that the object was indeed a boat, and moving with oars alone, there being not a capful of wind. Palm Tree Island 2011-09-21T02:00:31.730Z I do not refer to a mere ‘capful of wind;’ I mean a great-gun gale. O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas 2011-09-08T02:00:19.987Z And I am not afraid of a capful of wind.” The Campfire Girls on Station Island or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht 2011-05-19T02:00:07.110Z There are no hurricanes on Mars; its fiercest winds can never exceed in violence what a sailor would call a “capful.” Are the Planets Inhabited? 2011-04-24T02:00:07.733Z He was indeed a capably grotesque comedian, and formerly had garnered many a capful of sous at the corners of Paris by his antics, songs, and contortions. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z Here, if there be a capful of wind, or a cupful of sea, one is sure to have the benefit of it; for even in the finest weather there is a considerable swell. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z Ah, they're a queer rigged craft are women, and a secret is the ballast they think first about throwing overboard if there's ever such a capful o' wind to make the sea a bit roughish. Vestigia Vol. I. 2011-02-04T03:00:23.340Z Lord bless you! a capful o' wind will soon blow 'em out of you. Vestigia Vol. II. 2011-02-04T03:00:22.950Z After all it used to be traditional at half-time in winter for the manager to give a capful of whisky to the players before sending them out again. Juventus v Manchester City ? live! 2010-12-16T17:33:00Z I held my breath till all was quiet again; then off we started towards the opposite end of the meadow, Miles attempting to cajole the animal with soothing words and an imaginary capful of corn. Highway Pirates or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne And indeed the South Wind pounced on them in a few moments, blowing more than a capful. Shadows of Flames A Novel "There is no danger," I shouted, "nothing but a passing capful of wind." A Marriage at Sea The bishop thought the capful of wind was an Atlantic storm, and worried the captain by asking constantly if there was danger. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 It only takes a capful of wind to make things nasty on the bay, and that iron cylinder began to toss like a cork. The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers “There’s more than a capful of wind in that, if I know anything about weather.” The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove Or, The Missing Chest of Gold “A little nor’ard, what there be of it––only a capful, though.” A Singer from the Sea Let a capful of wind come scudding across that glassy sea, and all the riches in the world would not buy Edmond Czerny's life of these sea-wolves who sought it. The House Under the Sea A Romance Were you once on board, Leaftenant, you might snap your fingers at this capful of wind.” Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life “When captain said he was going to-night, I was thinking it would take a capful of wind to carry the ship back to sea; and now here's more than a capful.” Humorous Ghost Stories We should have left Whitestone right away, but the wind had died out and there wasn't a capful of air stirring. A Pirate of Parts At an early period of his existence he broke a capful of eggs. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 And let the wind blow more than a capful," said I, "and by the Lord above me not a man among them will see to-morrow's sun! The House Under the Sea A Romance I'm looking for considerably more than a capful of wind when it comes, sir. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 There was, therefore, no mere capful of wind, but a real, whole, tremendous gale. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands But he returned to camp without having fired a shot, and with only a capful of thimbleberries as spoil. Kiddie the Scout With a burst of indignation, he rushed out, and caught little Spinks in the act of making off with his second capful of apples. The Thorogood Family Oh!” he added to himself, “if there were only a capful of wind!” Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy I believe in keeping on the safe side; but a fellow may lose the race by dodging every capful of wind that comes. The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder I reckon I’ll have a rare capful o’ larks by th’ sky falling, first.” Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago "It 's the wind slacking; there's a bare capful," said the mate, "and I 'm afeard there's mischief brewing yonder." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 "There is a capful of wind," said he to himself, "and I will just show the skipper of the Fawn that I can handle her as well as he can." Little By Little or, The Cruise of the Flyaway “Wait a bit, and you will understand better what Molloy means when he calls this only a ‘capful of wind.’” Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan She has to reef when there's a capful of wind. The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder “If we only had but a capful of wind,” said the captain to the first lieutenant, “but I see no appearance of it.” Percival Keene What’s the proudest on ’em, when it comes to blow half a capful of wind? Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman It did not take long to get a capful of these, and they soon sat down to make their al fresco meal. Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea Gathering a capful, he returned at once to where his companions in misfortune were hard at work. Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco “But you said it was a capful of wind,” said Mark faintly. Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle They gathered a capful of the pinon cones—the seeds of which Lucien knew how to prepare by parching and pounding. The Boy Hunters Our commander, however, was not a man to be frightened by a capful of wind; so we close-reefed the topsails, and lay upon our course as near as we could. Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman “Well, sir, tidy, tidy; most a capful o’ wind. Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea Why, she would capsize with half a capful of wind.” Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War This is only what we sailors call a capful of wind.” Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle "Why, there's as much difference between a capful of wind in the Channel, and a gale off the Cape, as there is between a newborn baby and me." A Final Reckoning A Tale of Bush Life in Australia What is peculiar in these words: cabin, pistols, razors, money, value, measuring, bought, barley, capful, roll, successors, desert, certainly? The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric It'll be the sack for Mister Bully B. Nathan if he lets a capful o' fair wind go by and his anchor down. Great Sea Stories This, of course, is the effect of a gentle and balmy hurricane—a mere capful of wind that tears and tatters them. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science As though English-built vessels could not ride out a capful of wind like this! French and English A Story of the Struggle in America And him sailing her in from Blackhead close round the Manacles, in half a capful o' wind an' the tides lookin' fifty ways for Sunday! Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 And now I thought myself pretty well freighted, and began to think how I should get to shore, having neither sail, oar, nor rudder; and the least capful of wind would have overset me. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric It'll be the sack for Mister Bully B. Nathan if he lets a capful o' fair wind go by and his anchor down. Great Sea Stories Did he stuff his pockets with it? did he carry it away by the capful? St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 He finally left in disgust, with the remark that there was not a capful of wind to be had in the place. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees Marc'antonio brought me my share of seethed kid's flesh with a capful of chestnuts roasted in the embers; a flask of wine too, and a small pail of goat's milk with a pannikin, for Nat. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Did you ever see so many halyards snap in your life, and in just a capful of wind? Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod It blew a capful, it blew half a gale, it blew a gale: little they cared, these sons of Ares, these cousins of the broad daylight! Hills and the Sea One must be prepared therefore, for every eventuality, and be ready to unfurl one's sail at the first capful of wind. Recollections of My Youth "Oh, no; not what yer might call a storm," laughed the captain; "but just what we used to term a 'capful uv wind.'" The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol They also got what water they could and stored it in a cask, and Bob picked a capful of berries. Bob the Castaway There was not more than a capful of wind; but once let the canvas fill, and the schooner would get steerageway. Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod "Twyne says the estate owes a good capful o' money by this time, hey?" said the Doctor, lowering his voice and winking. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 Often when his work was done he wandered into the woods to return with a capful of berries or a squirrel that he had snared. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Hence arose the expression, "a capful of wind." Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook A sharp capful of wind arriving just then, French Pete abandoned the one chase for the other. The Cruise of the Dazzler "When Captain said he was going tonight, I was thinking it would take a capful of wind to carry the ship back to sea, but now here's more than a capful." The Ghost Ship An October day, with waves running in blue-white lines and a capful of wind. Men, Women and Ghosts The Jasper B. had lain so long in one spot that it would undoubtedly take more than a capful of wind to move her. The Cruise of the Jasper B. I warrant you were frighted, wer’n’t you, last night, when it blew but a capful of wind?” Robinson Crusoe The clouds of the morning had rolled silently away to the horizon, the wind had dropped to a mere capful; and the midges were abroad in their hosts, rejoicing in the improvement in the weather. The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story It blows fresh," cried Griffith, who was the first to speak in that moment of doubt and anxiety; "but it is no more than a capful of wind after all. The Pilot A capful was stirring now, and humanity— ever discontented—silently cursed that. The Happy End The Waif was no poppycock yacht, built to dodge about the Solent and run for Cowes if the wind blew a capful. The White Waterfall "Here give us a pipe of tobacco if we're to warp out half a day ere we get a capful of wind." A Set of Rogues Well, sir, one day we sighted a Spanish caravel very rich ladened with a prodigious quantity of plate, but were without so much as a capful of wind to fetch us up with her. Stolen Treasure That fellow brings a capful of wind down with him—'tis just his play, and he walks like a race-horse. The Pilot "Say by Tuesday or Wednesday, I should think a capful of wind might puff up in some direction." Patty at Home Granted a capful of wind on his beam, a fleet keel under foot, and a complacent skipper aft, the flight direct was perhaps the means of escape the sailor loved above all others. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore That answer and those leaves, Vincent said to him, will adorn you more fitly when something more, and greatly more, than a capful of light odes can call your genius father. Ulysses Well, sir, the truth is, we seamen don't want passengers aboard ships of this class; they get in our way whenever it blows a capful. Foul Play In a minute Fusie was back with a capful of water. Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry I suppose Anne never caught a capful of wind from that quarter?’ The Trumpet-Major But a stream gurgled through the gorge, and a capful of water dashed over his face brought the senses back to the injured man. Sir Nigel He declared that it was a mere "capful of wind," and would be all the better for the purpose. Frank's Campaign, or, Farm and Camp |
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