doorfuls

Updated: June 6, 2025

He dammed it right across with a few vigorous doorfuls of earth he must have worked like an avalanche and down came a most amazing spate through the shrubbery and washed away Miss Spinks and her easel and the most promising water-colour sketch she had ever begun, or, at any rate, it washed away her easel and left her wet to the knees and dismally tucked up in flight to the house, and thence the waters rushed through the kitchen garden, and so by the green door into the lane and down into the riverbed again by Short's ditch.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth