water-buckets

Other men let the saddles eat holes the size of water-buckets.

WHICH MAKE MEN REMEMBER 2010

An occupation only varied by a fire in the town one windy night, and much passing of water-buckets from hand to hand (in which the Englishman rendered good service), and much beating of drums, — when all of a sudden the Corporal disappeared.

Somebody's Luggage 2007

Livistona rotundifolia of botanists, and is the most complete and beautiful fan-leaf I have ever seen, serving admirably for folding into water-buckets and impromptu baskets, as well as for thatching and other purposes.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

The most conspicuous feature of the vegetation was the abundance of fine fanleaved palms (Borassus flabelliformis), from the leaves of which are constructed the strong and durable water-buckets in general use, and which are much superior to those formed from any other species of palm.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Here also grew the fan-leafed palm, whose small, nearly entire leaves are used to make the dammar torches, and to form the water-buckets in universal use.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

In the post records, sandwiched between such mundane things as requisitions for water-buckets or commissary supplies, one would read of atrocious murders committed by the Moros; piratical expeditions headed off, and their instigators punished; or attempted slave-raids against some neighbouring island.

A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route Florence Kimball Russel

Remembering a lesson of the Mons retreat emphasised by a Horse Artillery major lecturing at Larkhill -- that his horses kept their condition because every time there was a forced halt near a village he despatched his gunners with the water-buckets -- I had told my groom to search around until he found water for my two horses.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

It was a calm Sabbath evening; the click of the pick, the rattle of the cradle, the splashing of the water-buckets -- all were still.

Frank Oldfield Lost and Found T.P. Wilson

We all needed it pretty badly, and even at dawn the whole camp was still sound asleep in spite of the fact that they had no covering but their greatcoats, and there was half an inch of ice on the water-buckets.

The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 David Douglas Ogilvie

Perris, with others following, reached him first and strong hands carried the unconscious champion towards that corner of the field where the Corson buckboard stood; for there were the water-buckets.

Alcatraz Max Brand 1918