Mackenzie also mentions an infant of three who had polydipsia from birth and drank daily nearly two pailfuls of water.
She drank four pailfuls a day, the price being 12 sous; water in the community was scarce and had to be bought.
We would usually begin about three or four o'clock, and by five have the one hundred and fifty pailfuls of sap in the hogsheads.
The syruping-off usually took place at the end of the second day's boiling, when two or three hundred pailfuls of sap had been reduced to four or five of syrup.
In the village street the inevitable little stream, which is encouraged in most French towns, runs beside the roadside, and is fed by all the pailfuls of dirty water that are flung from time to time into its midst.
Miss Machonochie's cistern, so she informed us, had barely a foot of water in it, and she came up to ask if she might borrow a few pailfuls from ours of a morning.
But she made a great point of putting down exactly how manypailfuls she borrowed, and also made a great point of coming to thank Francis every other afternoon about tea-time for his kindness.
Beef's-gall, one spoonful to two pailfuls of suds, improves calicoes.
To make cold Soft-Soap, melt thirty pounds of grease, put it in a barrel, add four pailfuls of strong ley, and stir it up thoroughly.
If a person be struck with lightning, throw pailfuls of cold water on the head and body, and apply mustard poultices on the stomach, with friction of the whole body, and inflation of the lungs.
The cochineal must be boiled along with the potash in a copper containing five pailfuls of water (60 pints); the ebullition being allayed with cold water.
We pour in 3 pailfuls of the decoction, heat to the same point again, and introduce 30 pounds of wool, which does not take a scarlet, but rather a crimson tint.
For every six pailfuls of schlam thus thrown into the large tub, 12 pounds of muriatic acid, at 15 deg.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pailfuls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
