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Examples
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"And good-morning to you," he responded, rising to his feet and picking up the water-bucket.
CHAPTER 4 2010
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An unearthly silence brooded in the cabin, broken only by Bishop filling a basin from the water-bucket, and by Corliss seeking out his smallest and daintiest house-moccasins and his warmest socks.
CHAPTER 20 2010
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But he sacrificed a blanket, and, with his foot incased in an enormous moccasin, big as a water-bucket, continued to take his regular turn with the front sled.
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Malemute, nor Hudson Bay; he looked like all of them and he didn't look like any of them; and on top of it all he had some of the white man's dog in him, for on one side, in the thick of the mixed yellow - brown-red-and-dirty-white that was his prevailing colour, there was a spot of coal-black as big as a water-bucket.
That Spot 2010
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He wasn't husky, nor Malemute, nor Hudson Bay; he looked like all of them and he didn't look like any of them; and on top of it all he had some of the white man's dog in him, for on one side, in the thick of the mixed yellow-brown-red-and-dirty-white that was his prevailing color, there was a spot of coal-black as big as a water-bucket.
That Spot 2010
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Thou wert in the forest, thou wert greatly terrified; dost thou remember how I took hold of the handle of the water-bucket?
Les Miserables 2008
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Saw her in the morning, in that damned over-sized shirt, with the water-bucket, trudging up the hill ....
2005 Cherryh, C. J. 2005
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The small water-bucket is made from an entire unopened leaf of the same palm, and the covered bamboo probably contains honey for sale.
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In one of the corners a young cabman gets up, clears his throat sleepily, and makes for the water-bucket.
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Bombay, as ever comical, never so much at home as when in the dance of the Mrima, has my water-bucket on his head;
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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