pailful
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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
A foreman painter once gave, as a recipe for this purpose, an instruction to add a tablespoonful of “salts of tartar” to three-quarters of a pailful of water.
From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various
‘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
Barbara got a pailful of water from the spring and started peeling potatoes.
From The Lost Wagon by James Arthur Kjelgaard
Streams newly made from the accumulating water on the heights above flooded their feet to the depths of their shoes, and the rain fell upon them as if by the pailful.
From The Hills of Refuge A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben
If it should thunder as it did before, I know not where to hide my head: yond same cloud cannot choose but fall by pailfuls.
From The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover
He swallowed pailfuls of water, and it was only with the utmost difficulty that he succeeded in reaching the bank.
From The Moral Instruction of Children by Felix Adler
Something cool to drink is the first thing asked for after the long, dusty drive; and pailfuls of tamarinds and water, 'a beautiful drink,' the men used to say, disappeared rapidly among them.
From Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience by Henry W. Bellows
We had been in a cold Moderate district, whence there came no half-dozens of eggs, or whole dozens of trout, or pailfuls of razor-fish, and in which hard cabin-biscuit cost us sixpence per pound.
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds
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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