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  • Mr. Coles 'retort had been more bitter than ever, and Austin picked up the milk-bucket and lantern and walked out of the barn and to the house.

    The Hero of Hill House Mabel Hale

  • So I got out the old rusty-rimmed banjo, tuned her up, and sat on an overturned milk-bucket, with Dinkie and Bobs and Poppsy and Pee-Wee for an audience.

    The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

  • "Well, I dunno," Sally said, easing herself from one foot to another and shifting the milk-bucket from her right hand to her left.

    The Leatherwood God William Dean Howells 1878

  • Hannah's cow grazing quietly beside the keeper's pony; a brace of fat pointer puppies holding amicable intercourse with a litter of young pigs; ducks, geese, cocks, hens, and chickens scattered over the turf; Hannah herself sallying forth from the cottage-door, with her milk-bucket in her hand, and her little brother following with the milking-stool.

    Our Village Mary Russell Mitford 1821

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