So that was settled, and the gossip put the peasant into his egg-basket and carried him home. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Then she would run into the kitchen and dip her fingers into the preserves, and upset the egg-basket, and open the oven door and let the heat all out when the pies were baking, and leave the cover off the sugar bucket, and dip into the milk to feed her kitty, and disturb the cream, and nibble round a loaf of fresh cake, just like a little mouse. ❋ Fanny Fern (N/A)
The only way to keep the egg-basket full is to have a lot of youngsters coming on who will take up the laying for ❋ John Williams Streeter (N/A)
So yearlings, taken as a whole, do little toward filling the egg-basket until January or later. ❋ Pratt Food Co. (N/A)
"Stop that, you greedy black rascal," retorted the professor, laying about him with the egg-basket. ❋ John Henry Goldfrap (1898)
"And some with an egg-basket," I added, as my cheeks began to glow with something I hadn't ever felt before, but which I classified as patriotism. ❋ Maria Thompson Daviess (1898)
I'm going to get in line with my egg-basket when the United States begins mustering in forces to fight, no matter what it is to be. ❋ Maria Thompson Daviess (1898)
An empty egg-basket was slung upon his arm, the nap of his hat was ruffled, a patch being quite worn away at its brim where his thumb came in taking it off. ❋ Unknown (1891)
When she came out the first thing she saw was the egg-basket piled full. ❋ Henry Mills Alden (1877)
She'd have given "Johnny's girl" the old egg-basket instead of this "meeting" one, could she have foreseen results. ❋ Evelyn Raymond (1876)
But cousin Lydia was really a sensible woman; for what did she do but butter Silvertoe's paws, and tie her into an egg-basket. ❋ Sophie May (1869)
A lady once watched the rats, which were at work at her egg-basket. ❋ James Johonnot (1855)
I think that 'ere sleigh may be called Beauty's egg-basket! ❋ Unknown (1852)
The egg-basket and the salt-box may also find a place in this closet, so as to keep the general appearance of the kitchen neat and clean. ❋ Jane (1845)
The lady rung her table-bell, and called him to her, telling him to bring his egg-basket. ❋ Nehemiah Adams (1842)
Palm Pre Owners Reporting Heat Distortion - It's only been a couple of days since it first launched, but Palm's egg-basket, the Pre, is already getting its first round of user complaints. ❋ Unknown (2009)
