milkcan

No, thank you, sir, the old woman said, slipping the ring of the milkcan on her forearm and about to go.

Ulysses 2003

-- No, thank you, sir, the old woman said, slipping the ring of the milkcan on her forearm and about to go.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

The room had its quaintness, too, such as she had alluded to in her memorable essay read before the Riseholme Literary Society, called "Humour in Furniture," and a brass milkcan served as a receptacle for sticks and umbrellas.

Queen Lucia 1903

Every washtub and milkcan and gravestone will be exposed.

Excursions Henry David Thoreau 1839

A softer beard: a softer brush if intentionally allowed to remain from shave to shave in its agglutinated lather: a softer skin if unexpectedly encountering female acquaintances in remote places at incustomary hours: quiet reflections upon the course of the day: a cleaner sensation when awaking after a fresher sleep since matutinal noises, premonitions and perturbations, a clattered milkcan, a postman's double knock, a paper read, reread while lathering, relathering the same spot, a shock, a shoot, with thought of aught he sought though fraught with nought might cause a faster rate of shaving and a nick on which incision plaster with precision cut and humected and applied adhered: which was to be done.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911