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pail sentence examples

  • Pails of milk were more easily transported with the extra support from the yoke.
  • Then, if you asked jack to fetch a pail of water, he could figure out how to do it.
  • Dirty water or empty pails were commonly punished by pinching or lameness.
  • I have some garbage pail kids cards still somewhere, i'm sure.
  • Pail of warm water.
  • Men who could be hired to carry pails of water up to the tenement flats were called caddies.
  • Last spring a friend of ours discovered one inside an old pail, which was lying upside down in a corner of his garden.
  • To go west means to hop the twig, pop one's clog, hand in one's dinner pail, and so on.
  • Uttering a few sounds with an air of melancholy, he took the pail from her head and bore it to the cottage himself.
  • I usually had to make two trips, as i couldn't manage to carry a full pail.
  • Twice a week we'd go up to the nearest farm to fill the milk pail or buy another sack of potatoes.
  • I had only one pail of water for taking a bath.
  • Beside these were long rows of wooden pails and dairy utensils, with shining ranks of tinware and pewter platters and pots.
  • I even managed to empty the slop pail in the food tunnel.
  • Twice a week we'd go up to the nearest farm to fill the milk pail or buy another sack of potatoes.
  • There was a bucket full of water, and a small pail.
  • You would not ask for a kiss good-bye, or an extra napkin in your lunch pail.
  • The point of the cartoon is the lawyer under the cow with his milking pail!
  • The right-hand carving appears to show someone carrying what look like water pails.

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