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
Alkali lands were abundant and water was scarce; indeed, water fit to drink was seldom found, and frequently the travellers had to seek a stagnant pool, containing not more than a pailful of slimy liquid.
From The Warden of the Plains and Other Stories of Life in the Canadian North-west by Maclean, John
This may or may not have been truth; but the woman flung her pailful fiercely into the street, and then as fiercely confronted Claire.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
A pailful of choice home-dried peaches, cooked with much care, had been set on a wagon tongue to cool and some unlucky movement precipitated the whole luscious, juicy mass into the sand below.
From Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Denny, Emily Inez
The convicts who wished to make themselves thoroughly clean, could for two kopecks buy another pailful, which the proprietor handed to them through a window pierced in the wall for that purpose.
From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
It takes about three pailfuls to make a bushel.
From How We are Fed A Geographical Reader by Chamberlain, James Franklin
Two pailfuls of small, raw sweet potatoes were given us for our supper.
From The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document by Anonymous
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
The Quarterly makes answer, "Chemically speaking, a man is 45 lbs. of carbon and nitrogen diffused through 5½ pailfuls of water."
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
"It certainly isn't a thing to drink in pailfuls."
From Amusement Only by Marsh, Richard
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