Pail (?), n. [OE.
paile, AS. pægel a wine vessel, a pail, akin to D. & G.
pegel a watermark, a gauge rod, a measure of
wine, Dan. pægel half a pint.] A vessel of wood or tin,
etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover. Shak.
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 The old farm gable, he thought it turned
The milk that fell like a babbling flood
Into the milk- pail red as blood!
Or how he fancied the hum of bees
Were bullets buzzing among the trees.
But all such fanciful thoughts as these
Were strange to a practical man like Burns,
Who minded only his own concerns,
Watching, breathless, and utterly forgetful of his own position,
Bristol saw the messenger, all unconscious of danger, come up the
stairs carrying a pail and broom. As his head reached the level
of the railings The Stetson Man neatly sand-bagged him, rushed
across to the outer door, and closed it!
Given duplicate keys and the private information which Dexter so
ingeniously had obtained, there are many London banks vulnerable to
Of Hanbury' s News-Letters from Foreign Courts, four or five,
incidentally printed, are like the contents of a slop- pail ;
uncomfortable to the delicate mind. Not lies on the part of
Hanbury, but foolish scandal poured into him; a man more filled
with credulous incredible scandal, evil rumors, of malfeasances by
kings and magnates, than most people known. His rumored mysteries
between poor Polish Majesty and pretty Daughter- in- law ( the latter
she had selected, ornamented with the rough drawing of a cow in poker
work: a little too solid for my taste, but one that I should say
would wear well. The pail she had not as yet had time to see about.
This galvanised bucket we were using was, I took it, a temporary
makeshift. When Robina had leisure she would go into the town and
purchase something at an art stores. That, to complete the scheme,
she would have done well to have taken a few practical lessons in
milking would come to her, as an inspiration, with the arrival of the
descried one morning, as he took his usual walk before the
breakfast- hour, signs of uncommon perturbation in the family.
Four bare- legged dairymaids, with each an empty milk- pail in her
hand, ran about with frantic gestures, and uttering loud
exclamations of surprise, grief, and resentment. From their
appearance, a pagan might have conceived them a detachment of the
celebrated Belides, just come from their baling penance. As
nothing was to be got from this distracted chorus, excepting
But Mr. Baynes had kept his most sinister exhibit to the last.
> From under the sink he drew a zinc pail which contained a
quantity of blood. Then from the table he took a platter heaped
with small pieces of charred bone.
" Something has been killed and something has been burned. We
raked all these out of the fire. We had a doctor in this
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