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It was all she could do to keep that one spoonful down.
"When it comes to women, people are not ready to take more than a spoonful of change at a time."
I took a spoonful of the food on my plate.
I put a second spoonful of sugar in my coffee.
He fed it to her one spoonful at a time.
He held a spoonful of his gift to her mouth.
But in the future, the spoonful of sugar may be the medicine.
She watched Bob as he took another spoonful of sugar.
"They must have brought the cement in by the spoonful."
It was all he could do to swallow the first spoonful.
"Just give her a spoonful of the syrup I left every four to five hours for the next two days."
It is, if you will, a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down.
To this day you will never see me eat a spoonful of peas.
Instead she brought the spoonful of food to her mouth and ate it.
"Give him a few spoonfuls every time he wakes up."
"That will be my spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down."
"I think next time I'll have a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down."
Place spoonfuls of the batter in the oil and cook for about two minutes.
The Shah had a spoonful of it on his morning cup, every day.
In this case, a spoonful of medicine helped the sugar go down.
"Give her a spoonful of this now and then, in water," he said.
All this may lead to the child agreeing to just one more tiny spoonful.
Then she tried one folded around a spoonful of filling.
"It got better pretty quickly," he said, digging in for a second spoonful.
He ate a spoonful of the stew and made a face.