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After the ceremony (which always includes a kiss) the couple is often showered with handfuls of uncooked rice, thrown by friends and family.

I remember you clutching at my shirt, bunching it up in handfuls around my chest.

But his only visitors were the birds, and he scattered handfuls of rice and seeds on his lawn and on those of his former neighbors.

This beach is comprised of a few handfuls of restaurants and bars and the nightlife is not as lively as other areas of the Algarve region.

In Africa the traditional form of geomancy consists of throwing handfuls of dirt in the air and observing how the dirt falls.

I bent down and drank a few hefty handfuls only to look up and see a dead raccoon floating near me.

All day he toiled on untiringly , and by the evening he had succeeded in extracting ten handfuls of plaster and fragments of stone.

Better one handful with tranquillity than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.

People would pick up handfuls of gravel from the bottom of the streams and sort out the diamonds.

Mother stopped the car and the kids scrambled out to pick handfuls of the long grass.

Allow to activate for up to fifteen minutes before rinsing completely with handfuls of cool water.

Others asked what else a third-world army, whose soldiers received only handfuls of rice, could have done with so many more mouths to feed.

I interrupted, dragging the pillow away, and turning the holes towards the mattress, for she was removing its contents by handfuls.

He reached gloomily into one of his trees and picked handfuls of fruit.

People with handfuls of the old currency demanded the right to buy food but gun fire was the response they got.

He could force three or four people armed with brooms, sticks and handfuls of coal, to use all their ingenuity to get in a blow.

There, reading swiftly from handfuls of telegrams, he thrilled his audiences with play-by-play accounts of games he had never seen.

Put equal handfuls of dried hops and lavender flowers into a cotton pillowcase, and seal the end.

I wasn't in it for the books, so I quickly gathered up handfuls of Skittles and started cramming them into my mouth.

Her illness became more and more serious, her hair began to fall out in handfuls .

He told the doctor that his hair fell out in handfuls .

There had been sudden ominous showers in the night, with rain like handfuls of gravel flung on the roof.

A few handfuls of raspberries or blackberries will transform the cheapest vodka.

Even the dog seemed to survive on watermelon rinds and handfuls of pistachios, walnuts, and dried fruits.

when reformers swept away "rotten" boroughs with handfuls of voters, and enfranchised new industrial cities.

There were pockets of freaks in cities and handfuls of them in smaller towns, nearly all feeling like outsiders.

A beam made up of handfuls of hell bank notes, in the air against two walls tightly.

For a very large pasta pot of water, I usually use two small handfuls of salt.

While walking and crossing patches of ample berries, we grabbed handfuls and ravenously put them in our mouths to quench the hunger.

As Langdon scooped handfuls of warm water onto his face, he gradually felt himself coming back to life.

in the third, Edmond grasped handfuls of diamonds, pearls, and rubies, which, as they fell on one another, sounded like hail against glass.

His hair begins to fall out in handfuls.

In the yard, the gang stands at different positions, dropping handfuls of concrete and mashing it into the ground with their feet.

Reddit only recently began inviting handfuls of random users to create new posts again.

The handfuls of pills taken at hourly intervals have turned into one pill a day.

We would jump on to the wagon and come away with handfuls of dripping chips.

Behind them, John pockets handfuls of manure fertilizer to cover his scent later.

It takes more work than simply throwing handfuls of fertilizer across a field.

The distribution of aid seemed chaotic in some parts, with people jostling for handfuls of food thrown from trucks.

Soon, Jim was pacing, brows knitted, with handfuls of underwear.

She kept lifting handfuls of fine sand and letting it pour through her fingers.

However handfuls of Japanese food blogs now post images of toasted character bread which they call Toast Art.

A good rule of thumb is to cook two handfuls of rice per person.

Mickey and Frank gathered small bills and handfuls of change.

Plunge in, says Ramprasad, and gather up handfuls there!

Ben: So can we put tinsel on in big handfuls ?

The cat could very well be handfuls closest friend but would never stoop to recognizing it.

We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone.

Two handfuls a day may do more to lower blood cholesterol and triglycerides than

2 Good handfuls of fresh breadcrumbs