He took a bucket, a great vessel, and hung it up by the river so that a single drop fell in at a time, taking fourteen hours to fill it.

" His words were speedily verified, and the next moment two more figures entered the playground, the object of their visit being at once made evident by the fact that one of them was carrying a bucket.

He drew a bucket of water, and bared his muscular arms, then, after washing them, soused his curly hair and begrimed face, and came out wonderfully brightened by the operation.

I kept an eye all the time on Elzevir's cord that hung down the well-side, and when I saw it was coming to a finish, shouted to them to stop, and they brought the bucket up near level with the end of it, so I knew I was about eighty feet deep.

A single female water-carrier was at the well, waiting for the element to filter into its basin, in order to fill her buckets, while her ear listened in dull attention to the hum of the moving crowd without.

She set down her bucket, and turned back towards the river.

To prevent this, we formed a chain of men every half hour to pass water-buckets from hand to hand, from the river just behind us down the sunken road, to lay the dust in and around the gun pits.

He pulled it over his head, picked up the bucket, and went out.

I want it in a bank, so's if I should kick the bucket (there'll be some pretty high rollin' here when there's been a few boats in, and

They went into the adjoining corridor, the jailer took up the mattresses, threw a few buckets of water on the floor, wiped it up anyhow, replaced the mattresses on the damp stones, and said to them, "Go back again.

pressure per square inch, lifts 6 buckets full of dredging per minute from a depth of 30 feet below the water, or lifts 10 buckets full of mud per minute from a depth of 18 feet below the water.

Wherewith would he bind the rafters of his hut to the beams, or tether the cow, or let down the bucket into the well?

The air pump is usually worked by means of a crank in the shaft, which crank moves the air pump bucket up and down as the shaft revolves.

He stalked after her to the little leaping creek and dipped out a full bucket.

and I had dropped the bucket in, and he ran straight down the green slippery stones and brought it up, laughing.

" "Well, we emptied a bucket of water over his linstock and priming, d'ye see, so maybe he did all he could.

A team of oxen hoists the buckets with a long rope running over a pulley, and every time they make a trip along the well-worn pathway they dump a barrel or more of much needed moisture into a ditch that feeds the thirsty ground.

I seized a bucket of slops, and; opening the window, dashed the contents in the direction of the music; the full force of the deluge striking a fat, froggy-looking little Dutchman, who was puffing and blowing at a bassoon infinitely larger than himself.

He moved to the windlass and told his helpers to lower the bucket.

Whereupon the new owner stopped at a farm-house and dashed several buckets of cold water on it.

I expect they ain't overshot the mark nuther, for he's got six hundred new buckets this spring, and Bill Sims, he's been in with 'em the last two years, 'n he says there ain't no sugar orchard to compare, except Squire White's over in Mill Creek, and he's often taken in three thousand pounds off his'n.

They upset buckets and benches, so that he might break his shins over them, which he never failed to do.

But tell me, sirrah; the bear that thou didst see, Did she not bear a bucket on her arm? CLOWN.

Among the dairying fraternity little toddlers, ere they are big enough to hold a bucket, learn to milk.

The reply was, "Send down your buckets where you are."