Which preposition to use with bucketful
" "He emptied a bucketful of water over good old Jacob, who found him and took him in and fed him, and sang to him, and danced to him, and was a second father to him.
Wouldn't it be dandy to take home a bucketful by aëroplane!"
Rain by the bucketfuls against the window-panes.
Some people say that a horse ought not to drink all he likes; but I know if we are allowed to drink when we want it we drink only a little at a time, and it does us a great deal more good than swallowing down half a bucketful at a time because we have been left without till we are thirsty and miserable.
Yesterday Caesar brought them to the doora whole bucketful for twenty-five cents.
The bottom of the cañon was dry where I first reached it, but a bunch of scarlet mimulus indicated water at no great distance, and I soon discovered about a bucketful in a hollow of the rock.