skirtfuls

Updated: June 21, 2025

But the boy nerved himself; he would not loiter to gaze at it, but strode into the cottage and began hacking with great fierceness at the nettles, which Tilda her hands cased in a pair of old pruning gloves gathered in skirtfuls and carried out of door.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - True Tilda