pailfuls

These were hardly 'pailfuls'; but gold is an article which adds fervour to the imagination and almost creates a power for romance.

John Caldigate Anthony Trollope 1848

Intelligence fills the brain with more of these elements; like the child with pailfuls of Legos, the highly intelligent person has a greater chance of forming the novel combinations of ideas, images or symbols that constitute a masterpiece than does someone with a mere starter set.

The Puzzle Of Genius 2008

If it should thunder as it did before, I know not where to hide my head: yond same cloud cannot choose but fall by pailfuls.

The Tempest 2004

I was surprised to see how thirsty the bricks were which drank up all the moisture in my plaster before I had smoothed it, and how many pailfuls of water it takes to christen a new hearth.

Walden 2004

These were hardly ‘pailfuls’; but gold is an article which adds fervour to the imagination and almost creates a power for romance.

John Caldigate 2004

Rain is descending in pailfuls, and it is such a soaking kind of rain that — that you might catch cold from it, my darling, and the chill might go to your heart.

Poor Folk 2003

Above eighteen pailfuls or two of it are got down my gullet; bous, bhous, bhous, bhous, how damned bitter and salt it is!

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Above eighteen pailfuls or two of it are got down my gullet; bous, bhous, bhous, bhous, how damned bitter and salt it is!

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

I imagined Dandy Boy drinking pailfuls of it and afterward rearing up like a cowboy's horse.

Borrowed Finery, A Memoir Fox, Paula 2001

Food is cheap and seems to be plentiful; and inexplicably in the Dry Zone, four hundred miles long and seventy-five broad, where it had not rained for over five months, one sees Burmese pouring pailfuls of water over their heads to cool themselves (I tried it: one shivers with cold for a minute and then dries and continues to gasp and perspire in the heat).

Burma 1971