cried I; for the black neck of a bottle had popped out of the
basket.
Nay," said one of the lasses, "but thou canst not carry three
baskets all at one time.
We waited while the
basket was packed, and took the boy with us.
With a grace all her own, Cecilia dived under the bed, and produced a
basket of jam tarts, a
basket of fruit and sweetmeats, a
basket of sparkling lemonade, and a superb cake--all paid for by general subscriptions, and smuggled into the room by kind connivance of the servants.
Not for Dan the bother of filling his
basket with the loose sprays, mingled with feathery elephant's-ears and trails of creeping spruce, as the rest of us, following the Story Girl's example, did.
The only produce that brought in any money was the cheese, which most of them carried in small
baskets to Grenoble or its outskirts.
that they taught the savages to make wicker-work, or
baskets, but they soon outdid their masters: for they made abundance of ingenious things in wicker-work, particularly
baskets, sieves, bird-cages, cupboards, &c.
At a distance they could see the curious procession moving toward the wharf--the lovers, shoulder to shoulder, creeping; the lady in black, gaining steadily upon them; old Monsieur Farival, losing ground inch by inch, and a young barefooted Spanish girl, with a red kerchief on her head and a
basket on her arm, bringing up the rear.
I am glad," said Lady Middleton to Lucy, "you are not going to finish poor little Annamaria's
basket this evening; for I am sure it must hurt your eyes to work filigree by candlelight.
One morning he was sitting in his usual place with his
basket before him, waiting to be hired, when a tall young lady, covered with a long muslin veil, came up to him and said, "Pick up your
basket and follow me.
Little Benjamin took one look, and then, in half a minute less than no time, he hid himself and Peter and the onions underneath a large
basket.
Athos called Grimaud, pointed to a large
basket which lay in a corner, and made a sign to him to wrap the viands up in the napkins.
