I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.    From LearnThat.org.  [Carl Sandburg]

And a drop in the bailout bucket is what it will be.    From Wordnik.com.  [tarpley on the crisis] Reference

` ` I feel for them, but my bucket is full as well. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

He unstrapped the tin bucket and began to bale to pool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love of Life] Reference

He unstrapped the tin bucket and began to bale the pool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love of Life] Reference

Not so much as one chow mein bucket weighed one pound or more.    From Wordnik.com.  [It pays to look/watch] Reference

Tasha, grace is coming your way in bucket loads, my darling. xo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ex Libris] Reference

Drip, drip superdelegates, the bucket is half full or half empty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two more Edwards delegates switch to Obama] Reference

The woman with the coin bucket left, leaving the man with the baseball cap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Loaded Dice]

I discover more efficient ways to clip and, before I know it, my bucket is filled again.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Word-A-Day:] Reference

Your argument that municipal court revenues are still a drop in the bucket is irrelevant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of Property Taxes and Parking Ticket Revenues] Reference

In a long-term bucket are more aggressive investments (your buy and hold investments: stocks).    From Wordnik.com.  [Buy and Hold Works--If You Let It | Company Comment | Commentary | News | Hemscott] Reference

Invariably, the other goats who want to get back to the grain bucket try to storm their way in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-08-01] Reference

He capped it with a bucket from the same spot to make it 69-54 with just over six minutes to play.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Basketball Association - Nuggets vs. Suns] Reference

To one side of the bucket were the X-ray negatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stallion Gate]

Also inside the bucket was a jar with a different liquid inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [News Tribune - News - Local] Reference

Propter Doc at comments: jokerine said ... ooh I love the term bucket chemist.    From Wordnik.com.  [August] Reference

But make no mistake, it's the same fiery, boomshakalaka bucket of awesomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gizmodo] Reference

Her department has also vowed to eradicate the so-called bucket system by next year.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

I head straight for the untitled bucket of hot stuff positioned behind all the others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ochuk's blog] Reference

Fraser-Moleketi said some 45,000 households were still using the so-called bucket system.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The escorts, sometimes called bucket brigades, counted up hundreds of flattened amphibians.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In the bucket was a little water, full of droppings from the roof, drowned insects, and sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference

But I wouldn't count on too much in the rain bucket, which is too bad considering how dry we are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forecast: Wonderful Wednesday & weekend, too] Reference

Our bucket was a soap box attached to a rope, which passed through a pulley at the top of the well.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island] Reference

We did not have lunar, tactical, or strategic missiles, we just got a drop in the bucket, that is all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castro Remarks at Missile Crisis Conference] Reference