Which preposition to use with pail

of Occurrences 183%

And Pulz, bring us a pail of water.

in Occurrences 23%

Sister Winifred came hurrying over the snow to the cow-house with a little tin pail in her hand.

with Occurrences 14%

We filled our tin pails with this delicious fruit for a dessert for our evening meal.

on Occurrences 12%

She should then lay a cloth (generally made of coarse wrappering) over the carpet in front of the stove, and on this should place her housemaid's box, containing black-lead brushes, leathers, emery-paper, cloth, black lead, and all utensils necessary for cleaning a grate, with the cinder-pail on the other side.

from Occurrences 7%

"Now, Peter, put your marbles in the pocket of your blue jeans, and take the milk pail from under the bushes; we must hurry or there'll be no chowder.

for Occurrences 6%

The dairy utensils are not numerous,churns, milk-pails for each cow, hair-sieves, slices of tin, milk-pans, marble dishes for cream for family use, scales and weights, a portable rack for drying the utensils, wooden bowls, butter-moulds and butter-patters, and wooden tubs for washing the utensils, comprising pretty nearly everything.

by Occurrences 4%

" He pointed to the bottle which stood in the pail by their side, and summoned a waiter.

at Occurrences 4%

Now I wouldn't go for to fling that pail at me, Swing.

to Occurrences 3%

Ford Foster had never shone out to so good an advantage in all his life before, as he did when he took his station on the upper rounds of that ladder, and risked his neck to hand water-pails to Ham.

beside Occurrences 3%

Then she moved her stool into the surf, sat upon it with a tin pail beside her, and, leaning forward over the water, fell to doing something,I could not tell what.

after Occurrences 2%

Pail after pail of water from the fountain they splashed on it.

out Occurrences 2%

" "The heap-much Indian chief didn't understand a word of what the Negro sergeant said to him, but he understands pantomime all right, and when the black man in uniform grabbed the pail out of the squaw's hand and thrust it into the dirty paw of the chief the chief went after that bucket of water, and he went a-loping, too.

Until Occurrences 2%

Your Highness will not know meZia Agnese, Giovannucci's wife that was; And feed a two-three cows, as a widow may, On the marshes where the grass is salt and sweet As your Highness knowsand always true to pail Until this Nicolo Nicolo.

between Occurrences 1%

When I could sit on the one-legged stool, which Jakie had made me, hold a pail between my knees and milk one or more cows, without help, they both praised my clevernessa cleverness which fixed more outside responsibilities upon me, and kept me from Georgia a longer while each day.

towards Occurrences 1%

He stepped over the pail towards the bureau and, catching the girl's eye as she looked up, turned the key noisily in the lock and placed it ostentatiously in his pocket.

without Occurrences 1%

A dented lard-pail without a handle did meagre duty as a teakettle, and balanced upon a corner of the stove was a dirty frying pan.

along Occurrences 1%

But bringing a water supply in pails along narrow trenches is a poor pastime, though better than bringing it up under the rifle-sights of snipers across the fields back of the trenches.

over Occurrences 1%

Robert, his son, unhorsed the old gentleman at one time, and would have killed him anonymously, each wearing at the time a galvanized iron dinner-pail over his features, but just at the fatal moment Robert heard his father's well-known breath asserting itself, and withheld his hand.

Which preposition to use with  pail