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The cement and sand are mixed dry with hoes, the water is added in pailfuls and the whole mixed to a uniform porridge-like consistency.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers

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 Walshe, Elizabeth Hely

"It certainly isn't a thing to drink in pailfuls."

From Amusement Only by Marsh, Richard

The boys were milking, and I met the Old Squire coming toward the house with two brimming pailfuls.

From When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)

A dance, or some joyful tumult of the senses would have brought him further with this commonplace, every-day, honest, and upright woman than three pailfuls of selfish tears.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul