After putting on her clothes she ate some bread-and-butter, swallowed a dishful of cold tea, and went out into the street.
"Liza of Lambeth"
W. Somerset Maugham
Hereupon he addressed a man who sold roast meat and who was clean of person, albe foul in his way of getting a living, and said to him, "Take the price of this dishful and add thereto of fowls and chickens and what not else is in your market of meats and sweetmeats and bread and arrange it in the plates."
"Supplemental Nights, Volume 1"
Richard F. Burton
Suppose you go down and tell Maria to have a large dishful for supper instead of what I have ordered."
"A Dear Little Girl at School"
Amy E. Blanchard