The canoe itself is merely a large shallow box, made of rough planks, with sloping prow and stern, more like a bread-tray in shape than anything else I can think of. ❋ Edward Burnett Tylor (N/A)
Thenceforth at all our dinners a skeleton entered our closet — if an empty bread-tray might be dignified into a skeleton. ❋ Unknown (1909)
As Sister Glory White had predicted, I "came down to it" at once and soon learned to perform the usual feminine miracles in the bread-tray and skillets. ❋ Corra Harris (1902)
Sophie was in place in this old farmhouse, with its dormer windows, with the weaver's loom in the large kitchen, the meat-block by the fireplace, and the big bread-tray by the stove, where the yeast was as industrious as the reapers beyond in the fields. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
He had lived on odds and ends for several days, eatin 'crackers that had bin turned over by revelers in the bread-tray at the bar. ❋ Unknown (1865)
The steward saved himself by dropping the bread-tray and grasping the handle of the cabin door. ❋ Unknown (1859)
Aunt Miriam was in high tide of business over a pot of boiling lard, and the enormous bread-tray by the side of the fire was half full of very tempting light-brown cruller, which, however, were little more than a kind of sweet bread for the workmen. ❋ Unknown (1854)
She laid the cloth, brought in the bread-tray, and cut a slice from the loaf for her husband, then returned to the kitchen. ❋ Wilkie Collins (1856)
A new clasp-knife with a buckhorn handle lay with the loaf in the bread-tray. ❋ Wilkie Collins (1856)
Aunt Miriam was in high tide of business over a pot of boiling lard, and the enormous bread-tray by the side of the fire was half-full of very tempting light-brown cruller, which, however, were little more than a kind of sweet bread for the workmen. ❋ Susan Warner (1852)
Aunt Miriam was in high tide of business over a pot of boiling lard, and the enormous bread-tray by the side of the fire was half full of very tempting light-brown cruller, which however were little more than a kind of sweet bread for the workmen. ❋ Susan Warner (1852)
Goodwife Morse said that her bread-tray would upset of its own accord, and the great woollen wheel would contrive to turn itself upside down, and stand on its end; and that when she and the boy did make the beds, the blankets would fly off as fast as they put them on, all of which the boy did confirm. ❋ John Greenleaf Whittier (1849)
The simple feast which was spread before us consisted of three dishes only, two of which were served in wooden bowls, and the third in an earthen vessel of their own manufacture, somewhat in shape of a bread-tray in our own country. ❋ Unknown (1841)
There in the men's room were perhaps a hundred men and boys, sitting up in their rags in little compartments of naked boards, each about half-way between a bread-tray and a hog-trough, which, planted close to each other, were to be their resting-places for the night, as they had been for several previous nights. ❋ Horace Greeley (1841)
Accordingly after the boys had gone to bed, she got all her materials together; the old bread-tray for the hull of the junk, some fine twine for the rigging, David's mast and step, and ❋ Jacob Abbott (1841)
She happened to have recollected that there was in the garret an old bread-tray, of japanned ware, which had been worn out and thrown aside, and was now good for nothing; and yet it was whole, and Mary Anna thought it would make a good boat. ❋ Jacob Abbott (1841)
