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We ourselves went out and gathered several pailsful from the rocks on the first portage.

From A Trip to Manitoba by FitzGibbon, Mary

When wanted for use a teacupful of the mixture for from three to four pailsful warm water will be the right amount to use when soaking clothes.

From Civic League Cook Book by

When melted, mix it with four pailsful of lye, made of twenty pounds of white potash.

From The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner by Anonymous

I have gathered pailsful day after day, these, however, have been partly cultivated by the plough breaking up the sod, but they seem as if sown by the hand of Nature.

From In the Forest Or, pictures of life and scenery in the woods of Canada by Traill, Catharine Parr Strickland

Dissolve twenty weight of white potash in three pailsful of water.

From The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner by Anonymous