He filled the wood-box, piled great chunks of wood by the fireplace, and saw that the water-pails were full to the icy brims.
He took up the two water-pails and waited, glancing from one to the other with that repressed smile which Billy Louise was beginning to look for in his face.
Painfully he hitched his chair alongside, lifted the pails and set them forward again.
He brought two pails of water and set them on the bench inside, and in the meantime he had cooked a mess of prunes and set them in a bowl on the window-sill beside his bunk, where the air was coolest.
He was near the two big, zinc water pails which he had filled that morning just to show Buck Olney how cool he was over his capture, and he bethought him that water was going to be precious in the next few weeks.
It will be too dark for them to make much of an examination; and, if they put their hands into the boat, they will feel the baskets and pails there, and will go away satisfied.
A dozen boys were speedily chosen to set the table, and the others, catching up all the empty pails and baskets they could find, scattered over the island in search of strawberries.
If they were as thick then as they are tonight," laughed Desire, "think how many pails they must have had.
The pails were carried by two men, accompanied by a sentry, to the sewer openings in the barrack-yard.
A few pails of water were flooded over the floor, carelessly and hurriedly, for the sergeants did not care about wasting too much time on the "prisonniers.
The operation, too, of emptying the tin pails cannot be performed without the suits being considerably the worse for it.
Then, having carried the brimming pails into the kitchen, he returned to the shed, and looked about him with gleaming eyes.
The milk-pails twinkled in the morning sun, catching fresh gleams as she turned them this way and that.
On cautiously nearing camp, the dog was seen amid the pails in the shallow water of the creek investigating them.
At first we milked the cows in the road in front of the house, setting the pails of milk on the stone work; later we milked them in a yard in the orchard behind the house, and of late years the milking is done in the stable.
At the end of a couple of days of hard boiling Hiram would "syrup off," having reduced two hundred pails of sap to five or six of syrup.
It used to tax my strength to carry the two twelve-quart pails full through the rough places and up the steep banks in the woods and then lift them up and alternately empty them into the hogsheads without displacing the neck yoke.
The ground is thick with leaves and blossoms and no one has got to sweep it, and the hard things with great noises to them, like pails and churns, are far away and clean forgot.
Set down thempails and do as sister says, Mister Jeremy.
The boys rushed hither and thither, with Spring barking at their heels, leaving open doors and shouting orders to each other concerning the various pails and baskets necessary to contain their future harvest.
When Nat reached the barnyard he found his uncle already there with the milk pails and milking an old white cow called Sukey.
Here's some water," came timidly from below, and Mrs. Felton appeared with two pails full to the brim.
As you stood with your back to the door, and faced down the room, you had in the near right-hand corner (where the brooms stood) six pails of urine.
The wooden floor in the neighborhood of the booth and pails was of a dark colour, obviously owing to the continual overflow of their contents.
Having completed the annihilation, he performs the most extensive ablutions per one of the three or four pailswhich The Enormous Room boasts, which pail is by common consent dedicated to his personal and exclusive use.
But the red-headed man, as I recollect, was contemplating the floor by the door, where six pails of urine solemnly stood, three of them having overflowed slightly from time to time upon the reeking planks.
The women had set down their pails and were dancing up and down and yelling.
Men and girls rowed home from milking, and hung their green and scarlet milk-pails in rows on the outer walls of their farmhouse homes.
Quite toddling creatures had blue yokes over their shoulders, and carried splashing pails of water as big as themselves, or they had round tots of babies tucked under their arms.
Next morning the work began; two men threw the gravel and sand into the cradle, the third kept it in motion, while whichever of the boys was off watch brought water in two of the pails from the hole.
On the roof the heat of the fire was unpleasantly apparent, while in the house it was stiflingly close and the work of carrying the pails up and down stairs soon had the three boys in a fine perspiration and badly off for breath!
Send the women for all the pails and things you've got.
Before the next play could be started the period ended and the teams flocked to the water pails and then tramped down to the other end of the field.
There, to be sure, were the walls and the dome-like roof, but upon the dusty sandstone floor were scattered quantities of household articles, such as pots and pails and pans and kettles.
I was looking from the window of my room just now and saw the people going to work at the tannery, and in the fields with their pails and tools, and I wanted to scream.
The chickens had gone to roost; the grunting and squealing of the pigs had been stilled by the pails of swill Paul's father, Ralph Rundel, had emptied into their dug-out wooden troughs.
There was a step on the back porch, and, turning, he saw Mrs. Tilton coming in, bowed between two pails of milk.
Geoffrey thought the time for bailing with the pails might be deferred for a while.
In the interior they saw to their surprise huge piles of cheese and great pails of milk ranged round the walls.
Then Remember brought pails of water and, standing on a stool, poured the water into the barrel until it began to drip down through the ashes and the straw into the bucket below.
Into the cart his mother put two shining pails of milk and a long handled dipper for measuring.
You wouldn't mind if you carried these milk-pails on the stage in a play.
They formed in line and marched to the cow lot with Norman and Barbara leading, singing and laughing and swinging their milk-pails like a crowd of rollicking children.
It was on a quiet morning in October that Agnes was on her way to Horsepool, when she was overtaken by Cicely Marvell, carrying a yoke of water-pails like herself.
She was making melody in her heart as she carried her pails to the pump, thinking gladly how short her time of trial was growing, and how bright her future would be.
Her heart was not hard to touch, and setting down her pails she laid her hand on the boy's shoulder.
The full pails were only just set down on the kitchen floor, when in bustled Mistress Flint, with a dish-cloth in her hand, which she had not waited to lay down, so eager was she to utter what she came to say.
Is there none save thee to bear those heavy pails of water?
Agnes filled her pails mechanically, and carried them home.
Agnes made no answer in words; she only took up the pails quietly and went out.
And everywhere on the floor were pails full of ice and rags covered with blood.
So I went to the pond with two pails and carried water, and still more water for an hour, seeing that the barrel was as large as a vat, saving your presence, m'sieu le president.
When she got up the thought of her overturned pails suddenly filled her with fury, and, taking off one of her wooden sabots, she threw it at the man to break his head if he did not pay her for her milk.
Suddenly he found himself above a deep road, and in the road he saw a tall girl, a servant, who was returning to the village with two pails of milk.
She let her two pails fall, and they rolled over noisily, and all the milk was spilt, and then she screamed lustily, but it was of no avail in that lonely spot.
I remember she used to fill two pails when the grass was good.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pails" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
