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  • "And good-morning to you," he responded, rising to his feet and picking up the water-bucket.

    CHAPTER 4 2010

  • An unearthly silence brooded in the cabin, broken only by Bishop filling a basin from the water-bucket, and by Corliss seeking out his smallest and daintiest house-moccasins and his warmest socks.

    CHAPTER 20 2010

  • But he sacrificed a blanket, and, with his foot incased in an enormous moccasin, big as a water-bucket, continued to take his regular turn with the front sled.

    THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN 2010

  • Malemute, nor Hudson Bay; he looked like all of them and he didn't look like any of them; and on top of it all he had some of the white man's dog in him, for on one side, in the thick of the mixed yellow - brown-red-and-dirty-white that was his prevailing colour, there was a spot of coal-black as big as a water-bucket.

    That Spot 2010

  • He wasn't husky, nor Malemute, nor Hudson Bay; he looked like all of them and he didn't look like any of them; and on top of it all he had some of the white man's dog in him, for on one side, in the thick of the mixed yellow-brown-red-and-dirty-white that was his prevailing color, there was a spot of coal-black as big as a water-bucket.

    That Spot 2010

  • Thou wert in the forest, thou wert greatly terrified; dost thou remember how I took hold of the handle of the water-bucket?

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Saw her in the morning, in that damned over-sized shirt, with the water-bucket, trudging up the hill ....

    2005 Cherryh, C. J. 2005

  • The small water-bucket is made from an entire unopened leaf of the same palm, and the covered bamboo probably contains honey for sale.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • In one of the corners a young cabman gets up, clears his throat sleepily, and makes for the water-bucket.

    The Schoolmistress and other stories 2004

  • Bombay, as ever comical, never so much at home as when in the dance of the Mrima, has my water-bucket on his head;

    How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

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