To purify greasy sinks and pipes, pour down a pailful of boiling water in which three or four pounds of washing soda have been dissolved.
Put the clothes in soak the night before you wash, and to every pailful of water in which you boil them add a pound of soap.
For calicoes that fade, put a teaspoonful of sugar of lead into a pailful of water and soak the garment fifteen minutes before washing.
To prevent blue from running into a white ground, dissolve a teaspoonful of copperas in a pailful of soft water, add a piece of lime the size of an acorn, and soak the garments in this water two hours before washing.
We kept on, and bine-by he comes to the door when we wasn't a lookin', and threw a pailful of dirty water on us.
A portion of the surface soil should be removed, and then pailful after pailful of water thrown in until the ground, to a depth of two feet and to a width about the stem of not less than three feet in diameter, has become saturated.
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.
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.
I was so much occupied in what he was saying, that I did not hear Mary open the window overhead, and was therefore terribly frightened when there suddenly came down on us a whole pailful of water.
Illustration: "When there suddenly came down on us a whole pailful of water.
Take it from the fire, stir in cold water till it grows thin, then put to each pailful of soap a pint of blown salt--stir it in well.
After being satisfied that the animal is in its hole, proceed to pour in pailfulafterpailful of water at the entrance.
This may be repeated several times, as long as the wine runs clear; and even the somewhat cloudy wine may be put with the first pailful into a separate cask.
Do not fully open the faucet at first, because the first pailful is generally not quite clear, and should run slowly.
Gray and his thousands of fishes from one pailful of water--but these instances stand out; more frequently there was no "investigation.
Because of these evil circumstances the best adaptation was to laugh the whole thing off and say that someone had soused someone else with a pailful of water in which a few "very young" minnows had been caught up.
Puts his axe on the floor and takes off his jacket] You get rid of a pailful of sweat while you drag one leg out of the mud.
They were here in Easter week and ate half a pailful of cucumbers.
How she dashes pailful and pailful into every corner, till the whole earth is as clean as a new floor!
Now, how was that, when it held a whole pailfulof mush?
An Irishman who lived at Markdale had a little pig," she said, "and he gave it a pailful of mush.
If he prove it A pailful of vodka Is at his disposal; As much as he wishes So much he shall have!
The napkin unfolds, Two hands have come floating From no one sees where, Place a pailful of vodka, A large pile of bread On the magic white napkin, And dwindle away.
Afterwards a pailful of lime and water should be poured down the pipe, which should be afterwards flushed by pouring water down it until the water flows off nearly clear.
Bill brought the next pailful in and threw it at the kitchen door, splitting one of the panels from top to bottom, and then they threw about half a dozen more pailfuls over the dresser.
Semi-drunk, as he stood in the middle of the room and hurled a pailful of water over the door of the cupboard.
Very well; we'll call that right; that would be a little over a pailful--say a pailful and a half.
Now, the three things necessary to get back your ball are, a pailful and a half of water, a plug, and pluck.
Nell produced her pailfulof hazel nuts, and with this rather late dessert for our dinner, we whiled away an hour or more, Thomas or Addison going out now and then to tend the fire and keep it blazing brightly.
Somebody at length ran forward with a pailful of water that was set on the tavern piazza, and dashed it over him, and withal the road was still very muddy from the rain.
After a pailful has been put into the press cloth, the four corners are caught up with the left hand, while with the right hand the curd is formed round and the press cloth straightened and the other corners in turn taken up.
To prepare a brine bath, add salt to a tank of water until it will float an egg, and add a pailful or more of salt every few days thereafter to keep up the strength.
It is then washed, by the same apparatus, in hot water, containing a pailful of soda lye of spec.
Four pounds and a half of salt are likewise put into the tub, and a pailful of hot water.
When it has reached the proper point, a brightening is given it by turning it round the sticks seven or eight times in a bath of hot water, to which about half a pint of lemon juice for each pailful of water has been added.
If at first it runs thick and discoloured, draw off a pailful or two, and pour it back again into the mash tub till it runs clear.
Cool a pailful after it has boiled, add to it two quarts of yeast, which will prepare it for putting to the rest when ready, the same night or the next day.
The water stands two days, and is then stirred up, and half a pailfulof warm water added to it; then being left to settle till it is clear, it is poured off for use.
In the course of two or three hours, another pailful of warm water is well mixed with the sponge, and it is again covered up for about four hours.
This water they prepare, by putting a pailful of warm water into a tub, with about two pounds of leaven, such as some bakers use to make their dough rise or ferment.
I deluged a dry flower-bed, the other night, with pailful after pailful of water.
I had dug out the spring and made a well of clear gray water, where I could dip up a pailful without roiling it, and thither I went for this purpose almost every day in midsummer, when the pond was warmest.
In the warmest weather I usually placed a pailful in my cellar, where it became cool in the night, and remained so during the day; though I also resorted to a spring in the neighborhood.
So the little old woman emptied out her blackberries on the ground very carefully and then she hurried down to the stream and brought back to the haymakers a pailful of fresh cool water.
The haymakers were very hot and thirsty and they said, “Very well; if you will go down to the stream and fetch us a pailful of water we will give you the hay.
If you cannot do this as soon as they are received, put them in the cellar or some other cool, shady place, and pour a pailful of water over the wrapping about the roots.
After doing this, and securing a covering for all the roots, apply a pailful or two of water to firm the soil well.
A pailful of water a day is not too much to apply to each plant in a dry season.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pailful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
