What a paper that was! I have heard that G. paid in handfuls of gold, in handfuls of bank-notes. Nobody ever read London, or advertised in it, or heard of it. It was full of the most wonderfully clever verses in old French forms. They were (it afterwards appeared) by Mr. Henley. Stevenson himself astonished and delighted the public of London (that is, the contributors) by his "New Arabian Nights." Nobody knew about them but ourselves, a fortunate few.英文原著 · 《Adventures among Books》
You ask me what are patrins. Patrin is the name of the signs by which the Gypsies who go before show the road they have taken to those who follow behind. We flings handfuls of grass down at the head of the road we takes, or we makes with the finger a cross-mark on the ground, we sticks up branches of trees by the side the hedge. But the true patrin is handfuls of leaves flung down; for patrin or patten in old Roman language means the leaf of a tree.英文原著 · 《Gypsy Dictionary》
Then, when our ammunition was gone and the Klondiker, still somewhat sober, began to babble again of Milly, Kraft whispered into his ear such a polite, barbed insult relating to people who were miserly with their funds, that the miner crashed down handful after handful of silver and notes, calling for all the fluids in the world to drown the imputation.英文原著 · 《The Four Million》
Thus he won over a handful of the Guard, and, begging for solitude, he straightway set about escape with a courage and an address which Jack Sheppard might have envied. His delicate ear discovered that a cellar lay beneath his cell; and with the old nail which lies on the floor of every prison he made his way downwards into a boxmaker's shop. But a barking dog spoiled the enterprise: the boxmaker and his daughter were immediately abroad, and once more Cartouche was lodged in prison, weighted with still heavier garters.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
Little John took none other meas-ure But his bow-e tree, And of every handfull that he met He leapt ouer foot-es three.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
He unbuckled his belt and poured upon the table a handful of Spanish doubloons. The landlord lowered the candle and silently counted the gold pieces, and then calling to him two of his fellow-villagers, crossed the tiny plaza and entered the corral.英文原著 · 《A Charmed Life》
I love this place, but I do miss seeing more than a handful of other patients.美剧 · 《Billions》
A handful of economic conferences and reeling in billionaires for the Giving Oath.美剧 · 《Billions》
My heel broke while I was at this new food truck, and I spilled a handful of gravy all over myself because they don't sell bowls, just gravy.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》