Everywhere was the inevitable pail flashing to and fro.
It was at the bottom of a pail of beer or something worse.
Just then there emerged from the kitchen a woman with a pail in one hand and broom in the other.
Trade had been unexceptionally good, and Mr. Lord had even spoken in a pleasant tone to Toby when he told him to fill up the lemonade pail with water, so that the stock might not be disposed of too quickly and with too little profit.
One night about twelve o'clock some one came into our room, and threw the contents of his slop-pail over us while we were asleep.
I had to go a distance of about one hundred and fifty yards, fill the pail by drawing water from the faucet in a dipper (the faucet was too low to permit the pail to stand under it), and return to the guard tent in ten minutes.
He kicked the pail over, and I set it up and stooped down to draw the water, and then he struck at me with his dipper, but hit the brass plate on the front of my hat and broke his dipper.
The corporal immediately ordered me to fetch a pail of water.
While taking the pail the officer of the day approached me and most politely asked: "Going for water, Mr. Flipper?
The two freezers stood ready in the laundry with a big pail for the broken ice, a heavy bag, a wooden mallet, and a large bag of coarse salt.
Put the ice in a pail till you have a quantity broken, and then measure; add the salt quickly to the ice and stir it well; then put the empty ice cream tin in the freezer with the cover on, and fasten on the top and handle.
Have ready a pail of very hot fat, and drop in two balls at a time and cook till light brown; take them out; keep hot; and put in two more, and so on.
Whenever the pail was empty I went to the brook and filled it; but because the water ran off your head so fast I thought a heavy cloth would keep wet a long time.
So I got the cloth out of the hut and laid it thick and wet on your head and dipped it in the pail whenever it got dry and hot; and then at last you awoke when it was morning, and I was very glad.
He carried a pail in his hand, and was evidently going to a spring near by for water.
Tom remained where he was, and Tim soon returned, carrying the pail filled with water.
Tom waited till he saw Tim arrive at the camp and deposit the pail of water near the fire, before he again emerged from the clump of bushes into the path that led past the camp.
Once in our public park in Rome, the Pincian Gardens, I saw a baby of about a year and a half, a beautiful smiling child, who was working away trying to fill a little pail by shoveling gravel into it.
The little boy did not wish to have the pail full of gravel; he wished to go through the motions necessary to fill it, thus satisfying a need of his vigorous organism.
Seeing that her exhortations made no impression on the little fellow's firmness, she herself filled the pail with gravel and set pail and baby into the carriage with the fixed conviction that she had given him what he wanted.
As a matter of fact, if he had filled his pail he would probably have emptied it out again in order to keep on filling it up until his inner self was satisfied.
The child's unconscious aim was his own self-development; not the external fact of a pail full of little stones.
He filled the kettle carefully from the pail while she stood and watched him.
She gave a stifled scream and for a moment turned so pale that he hastily set down his pail and went over to her.
With the ice-pail and the butterfly-net he showed that there could be no free electricity on the interior of a conductor.
It was "he", the overseer, who carried a large tin pail filled with black bread cut into pieces of half a pound each.
He gave a piece to every person, the youngest child and the biggest man alike, and then went into the kitchen and filled his pail with soup and meat, giving everybody a great bowl full of soup and a small piece of meat.
Singularly enough, the nuts in this dinner-pail grew already cracked, so that Dorothy had no trouble in picking out their meats to eat.
Have you not a stolen dinner-pail still in your hand?
Do the lunch-box trees and the dinner-pail trees belong to the Wheelers?
But when the foremost had approached near enough, Tiktok swung the tin dinner-pail and struck the Wheeler a sharp blow over its head with the queer weapon.
Dorothy Opens the Dinner Pail "Now Tiktok," said Dorothy, "the first thing to be done is to find a way for us to escape from these rocks.
Dorothy turned the pail over, and at once discovered the royal mark upon it, as Tiktok had said.
But at that moment Tiktok raised his dinner-pail and pounded it so forcibly against the colonel's head that the big officer sat down upon the floor with a sudden bump, looking both dazed and very much astonished.
While she was speaking she selected a bright and pretty dinner-pail that seemed to have a stout handle, and picked it from its branch.
It is the law here that whoever picks a dinner-pail without our permission must die immediately.
She handed him a shining dipper half full and stood, pail in hand, while he drank it.
All might have gone passably well, had not a little Riverside imp, by name of Rufus Hent, who had been picked up by the picnickers to run their errands, come up just then with a pail of water.
Winslow made for the kitchen door and came face to face with a girl carrying a pail of water--Mrs. Pennington's latest thing in hired girls, of course.
She carried her pail into the kitchen and came out again presently with a knife and a pan of apples.
Because I must answer as the king did: It's not so--the pail does overflow.
He opened the dinner-pail and took a long drink out of it.
Out of the corner of her eye she saw the child hand a tin dinner-pail to the man who had risen from the depths below.
She had put her pail down on the floor, with 25's soap and things thrown down beside it.
Madame Alice had the pail of dirty water on the floor beside her and stood leaning on the handle of her mop.
I put my big pitcher down by her pailon the floor, and patted her shoulder and said, "Please, oh, please.
I am sure that there must be soap works and perhaps a pail factory somewhere in London.
I was taken out early this morning by a group of your citizens (whom I cannot thank enough) in a Ford car to look at your pail and bucket works.
His father came up from the gloom of the barn, carrying a pail of milk.
With the reins about his back, he trudged up the long slope of the hill, through the warm dust, swinging his water-pail in cadence with his steps.
All that the mare will stand in need of at the conclusion of her troubles will be a pail of warm gruel, with a dash of old ale, or a little brandy introduced--the latter only in case of great exhaustion.
I always advocate holding up the feeding-pail when nourishment is supplied to the parent.
And as he watches his own spit vanish From the hard crest of the world, And silently scrapes his lunch pail against A corner of a metallic bench as if expecting the pale to bleed.
And as he watches his own spit vanish From the hard crest of the world, And silently scrapes his lunch pailagainst A corner of a metallic bench as if expecting the pale To bleed.
Bess take that one," pointing to the pail that hung on the wall, and which was filled with water.
Certainly," replied the woodsman, motioning toward a pail and dipper on a bench in front of the hut.
She waved one hand toward the bench on which the water pail was standing.
A tin water pail stood on a bench, and there was a gourd dipper hanging over it.
By this time the nurse was better, and able to carry the pail across the road into the Red House.
Daisy would kick thee and thy pail over in no time.
You sit still, and let me carry your empty pail to the top of the beach; it's only a step from there to the Red House, and then we'll bring our little pails full of water and soon fill yours.
And after that he worked with her, and with Claude's big bucket the pail was soon filled.
The pail had a narrow escape then, but Susie got it safely out of the way, and began her homeward walk.
Madhav Puri wondered, laid the emptiedpail down, and began to pray without sleeping.
A Cow-boy came and held a pail of milk before him, saving with a smile, "Puri!
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