milkpail

Someone had spilled a milkpail of stars across the sky, and at night when there was no moon it was so dark you could bump into walls just trying to find the door of the house.

Enchantment Card, Orson Scott 1999

"It's going to be a snowy night -- a real baby blizzard," declared Hiram, stamping his feet on the porch before coming into the warm kitchen with the milkpail.

Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd

_Weäse_, (1, 4) a pad or wreath for the head under a milkpail.

Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes

And since she was not the sort to hide her ill nature, she promptly kicked the milkpail over.

The Tale of Sandy Chipmunk Arthur Scott Bailey 1913

A huddled figure slowly climbed upon a low fence running about the house-yard of the little farm where the boy lived who got thrashed for losing a milkpail.

The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights 1910

KUONI, the shepherd, enters, with a milkpail on his shoulders, followed by Seppi, his assistant.

Act I. Scene I 1909

But a sweatband in a milkpail I never did see before.

Five Nights Drunk (Our Goodman) 1898

Then in her heart she remembered how that very morning Nero had indeed caught her thumb between his teeth when impatiently snatching his food; and how the evening before he had upset the milkpail, and left the black mark of his paw on her new knitted quilt; and how, one day last week, he had sat down on her best Sunday cap.

Fifty-Two Stories For Girls 1888

It was she who was always playing tricks on the cows and the horse, and the big sheep-dogs; who liked nothing so well as teasing Becky and dressing up the kittens, and who was always tumbling into the milkpail, or rolling downstairs, or losing herself in the woods, without somehow ever coming to any harm.

Milly and Olly Humphry Ward 1885

'isseif loose, somegate and marches oot into yard, o'erturns milkpail, and prods owd pigs i' ribs.

Bob, Son of Battle Alfred Ollivant 1900