pailful
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pailfuls
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“Pope!” she whispered again, and it was as though he had had a pailful of ordure thrown in his face.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
Barbara got a pailful of water from the spring and started peeling potatoes.
From The Lost Wagon by James Arthur Kjelgaard
‘All the same,’ said Ninnie-Dinnie, ‘I will bring you home a pailful of sunbeams if I can.’
From The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall by Enys Tregarthen
He went over to the cactus hedge and cut a pailful of cactus apples.
From Yankee Girls in Zulu Land by Louise Vescelius-Sheldon
Well, we've got a pailful for drinking and cooking, anyway.
From The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
You can imagine the effort made to supply two barrels of coffee with only three camp-kettles, two iron boilers holding two pailfuls, one small iron tea-kettle and one sauce-pan, to make it in.
From Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience by Henry W. Bellows
We arre de bes’ scout ev’ry tam’!” he carolled gayly, as he launched his hissing pailfuls at each threatened spot.
From A Scout of To-day by Isabel Hornibrook
Drink water by pailfuls: it is a universal dissolvent; water liquefies all the salts.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Henry Cabot Lodge
But your sister may exercise her abilities on the pailfuls of strawberries, and raspberries, and sand cherries, and wild plums, that fill the woods in summer.
From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Elizabeth Hely Walshe
Beef's-gall, one spoonful to two pailfuls of suds, improves calicoes.
From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Catharine Esther Beecher
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