“She took three gowpens of water and carried them home in her pail.”

“To go west means to hop the twig, pop one's clog, hand in one's dinner pail, and so on.”

“She just gave him a look that would have stopped a raging bull and gave him the pail.”

“Each pailful, each drop, was another show, another plot twist, another build-up to the climax.”

“A pailful, containing four gallons, may be purified by a single teaspoonful of the alum.”

“Buying coal by the pailful in the great east side tenement district has always been the custom, and probably always will be.”

“The minute I've taken you home, I'll pour a couple of pailfuls of water over my head in the gutter here, and then I shall be all right.”

“Dirty water was thrown by pailfuls over the women at Norwalk.”

“It will draw the paint directly out of your 5 gallon paint pails, through the hose and into your spray gun.”

“McDonald's decided that the pails might be more fun if they were harassingly bright.”

“Buek toiled away, carrying pails of gore from the surgeon's table and tearing up strips of cloth for bandages.”