Also a careful digger could throw a handful of gold in a tub of dirt, and, washing it off in Dishfuls, recover practically every colour.
"Joe Wilson and His Mates"
Henry Lawson
And she had so deft a way of first thinking out what new things would be likely to go well together, and then mixing things that no one ever thought of mixing before, which yet turned into the most delightful Dishfuls, that the sea-kings who dined with Sigurd jestingly declared that but one thing prevented some one's making war on him in hope of capturing Edith for himself, and that was the surety that if he won he then would have to fight all the others!
"The Iron Star And what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages"
John Preston True