With the most intense desire to go on shore, I was doomed to look and long and envy every Boatful of emigrants that glided past.
"Roughing it in the Bush"
Susanna Moodie
One day Kate and I were spending the afternoon at the Light; we had been fishing, and were sitting in the doorway listening to a reminiscence of the winter Mrs. Kew kept school at the Four Corners; saw a Boatful coming, and all lost our tempers.
"Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches"
Sarah Orne Jewett
In May he was sent a Boatful of herring.
"The King of Ireland's Son"
Padraic Colum