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Sentences ending with basket

Mamma said it would never do for two capitalists to have their eggs in the same basket. [4]
Slung upon the woman's shoulders was a small fisherman's basket. [11]
The young priest there, who seems so fond of gardening, has other fruit in his mind besides the half-ripe figs that he is so slowly dropping into his basket. [10]
She had taken the year old infant from the basket. [10]
They've cleaned out the kings--Louis's and Marie's heads have dropped into the basket. [11]
So she said no more--till he asked for a basket. [5]
And there was nice split-bottom chairs, and perfectly sound, too--not bagged down in the middle and busted, like an old basket. [5]
His desk was littered with books and papers, and she started, mechanically, to set it in order, replacing the schedule books on the shelves, sorting out the letters and putting them in the basket. [9]
Outside of the ladies' tent I came upon Miss Thorn, stowing a large basket. [9]
Now take your kerchief out of the basket. [10]

Short sentences using basket

She had bought a basket. [6]

Sentences containing basket two or more times

But Carnegie answered, "That's a mistake; put all your eggs into one basket and watch that basket. [5]

More example sentences with the word basket in them

And I'll give you some advice, Sawlsberry; when you come back for the particulars, fetch a basket to carry what is left of yourself home in. [5]
But certainly, if you mean that, I will leave the basket of roses, and go to her alone. [10]
How must the world look to a man in a basket, riding about on his wife's head? [4]
An instant, then, with the instinct of the woods and the plains, and the courage that has habitation everywhere, dropping her basket she sprang forward noiselessly. [11]
An old lady with a basket climbed in, and proffered her fare. [5]
Her oldest son, who on account of hip disease was not fit for hard work, helped her, and the youngest was Ortel, who had carried Eva's basket on the day of her dead mother's consecration. [10]
So-my beautiful dove was a good, wise thought, and what it carried in its basket you shall hear presently. [10]
Hearing that there was a basket of corn at Powhatan's, fifty miles away, they would have exchanged all their property for it. [4]
We took with us many tokens of their thoughtful kindness; flowers and fruits from Boston and Cambridge, and a basket of champagne from a Concord friend whose company is as exhilarating as the sparkling wine he sent us. [6]
As I went up the new Massa road the other day, I met a ragged, stout, and rather dirty woman, with a large shallow basket on her head. [4]
Then she grabbed up the basket and slammed it across the house and knocked the cat galley-west; and she said cle'r out and let her have some peace, and if we come bothering around her again betwixt that and dinner she'd skin us. [5]
It was not until the shadow of the forest had crept far across the lake and the darkening waters were still that we rose reluctantly to put the dishes in the tea basket and start on our homeward journey. [9]
It was a Tune evening, and there had been a church sociable and basket picnic during the day in a grove in the town of Mercer, some ten miles south of Ripton. [9]
Laforce was delighted to see her carrying her basket, till she opened it and showed the spoon inside. [11]
She took him to her own chamber, and, still holding him by the hand as if she feared to lose him for an instant, gathered together the little stock she had, and hung her basket on her arm. [12]
During their stroll through the garden Ephraim was asked to help her cull the flowers and, when the basket he carried was filled, she invited him to sit with her in a bower and aid her to twine the wreaths. [10]
He appropriated the three that remained in the basket, remarking that there was just one apiece for him. [6]
And just before they made a prisoner of Laforce, she said to him very quietly--so like a woman she was--"I will give you back the basket, and the riding-whip, and the other things, and I will never forgive you--never--no, never! [11]
The King discovered these rascals approaching the front gate before they had had a chance to see him; so he said nothing about drawing the line, but took up his basket of kittens and stepped quietly out the back way, without a word. [5]
In the garden there was not a weed to be seen, and to judge from some dapper gardening-tools, a basket, and a pair of gloves which were lying in one of the walks, old Mr Garland had been at work in it that very morning. [12]
She had had the precaution to furnish her basket with some slices of bread and meat, and here they made their frugal breakfast. [12]
Old Martsche received the order to send Ortel, the youngest manservant in the household, a good-natured fellow eighteen years old, with a basket, to wait for her and Sister Perpetua at the weir. [10]
I have ordered the gardener to cut me a basket full of roses to-morrow morning, and shall take them to her myself. [10]
The Butcher took the first manuscript that came to hand, read a stanza here and there, turned over the leaves, turned back and tried again,--shook his head--held it for an instant over the basket, as if doubtful,--and let it softly drop. [6]
Let him put the creature in a basket on the donkey's back, and then he can quickly carry it to the temple--at once and without delay, for, if I don't find it on the goddess's altar in an hour, you shall answer for it! [10]
I put down the basket and went back to reconnoitre. [9]
It was not the barking cur, but yonder basket that has dropped from the skies, which frightened him. [10]
In one of the apartments some rough-looking peasants are eating dinner, a frugal meal: a dish of unclean polenta, a plate of grated cheese, a basket of wormy figs, and some sour red wine; no bread, no meat. [4]
She was told that Zoe had gone off on her pony to take a basket of good things to a poor old woman down the river three miles away. [11]
It was true that Marget went out with a basket every evening, but the spies ascertained that she always brought it back empty. [5]
Sister Perpetua had taken part of the blossoms which she had gathered; but Ortel already stood waiting with the basket, and the house-dog, Wasser, which had followed the young servant, ran barking joyously to meet the ladies. [10]
Behind the great table, between a basket and the wine cask, from which the sibyl replenished the mugs, stood a high-backed chair. [10]
I allowed the subject to rest there, and asked for something to eat and smoke, and something hot to drink, and a basket to pile my legs in; but I could not have any of these things. [5]
For answer, Clarence struck the paper out of my hand, pursed up a scornful lip and said with lofty disdain: "Dismember me this animal, and return him in a basket to the base-born knave who sent him; other answer have I none! [5]
Above all this splendor hung a thousand lamps, shaped like lilies and tulips, and in the entrance hall stood a huge basket of roses to be strewn before the king when he should arrive. [10]
Hardly an hour since she had seen the arena looking like a basket of fresh flowers, full of splendid, youthful men. [10]
I threw the sheet into the waste basket, presently picked it out again and reread the sentence containing my name. [9]
Yes, I guess she will marry him and carry him round in a basket, like a lame bantam: Look here!--he said, mysteriously;--one of the boarders swears there's a woman comes to see him, and that he has heard her singin' and screechin'. [6]
As she talked, she seemed to be probing the centre of a flower which she had caught from a basket at the window, and her whole personality was alight and vivifying, her good temper and spirit complete. [11]
On her arm she carried a little basket of cakes and confitures, and these she dreamed she sold, for they were few who bought of Crazy Joan. [11]
All at once she appeared to be agitated; she looked at the basket, then around, as if there were some fearful presence about her which she was searching for with her eager glances. [6]
One hardly ever sees a minister of the gospel going around there in his bare feet, with a basket, begging for subsistence. [5]
The old people sat with the old, the young with the young, and the hostess at the tea table, on which stood exactly the same kind of cakes in a silver cake basket as the Panins had at their party. [2]
He sought Ben Rogers, and found him visiting the poor with a basket of tracts. [5]
He was to present to the imperial master, of whose near relationship he had no idea, a little basket filled with beautiful oranges from our garden in Villagarcia, which you know. [10]
Nevertheless, he looked out of the corner of his eye at them as he took from the basket of the round-checked kitchen maid, who had now found her way to him, one fresh brown roll after another, and placed them beside plate after plate. [10]
The Mistress slipped out into the kitchen to fill a basket with provisions and send it somewhere; and when the Fire-Tender brought in a new forestick, Mandeville, who always wants to talk, and had been sitting drumming his feet and drawing deep sighs, attacked him. [4]
Katharina had been out in the garden again and had cut all the rarest and finest; and though she had allowed the gardener to carry the basket for her, she would not have him help her in gathering them. [10]
They love approbation or praise; and a dog carrying a basket for his master exhibits in a high degree self-complacency or pride. [1]
They were off one morning early, Twichell carrying a little bag, and Clemens a basket of luncheon. [5]
The latter carried one basket on the right and one on the left of its saddle, wore bright cock's feathers on its head, and had a fiery-red bridle. [10]
On each end of the wooden mantel, over the fireplace, a large basket of peaches and other fruits, natural size, all done in plaster, rudely, or in wax, and painted to resemble the originals--which they don't. [5]
A large basket of Surrey primroses was brought by Mr. Rathbone to my companion. [6]
A certain basket of peaches, a rare vegetable, little known to boarding-houses, was on its way to me via this unlettered Johannes. [6]
With active presence of mind she gathered up her garments from the floor, swept the long locks of hair together, and threw them all, with the sewing and the basket that had contained the food, into the stove on the hearth, and set them alight. [10]
It did not occur to her that these reasons would vanish like mist--that a wilful woman would sweep them into the basket of forgetfulness, and do what she wished in spite of reason: that all else would be sacrificed, if the spirit so possessed her. [11]
Another person came now, and searched all through our basket and bundles, emptying everything out on the dirty wharf. [5]
The next day Mr. Henderson left his card and a basket of roses. [4]
He opened once more, read five seconds, and, with something that sounded like the snort of a dangerous animal, cast it impatiently into the basket, and took up the manuscript that came next in order. [6]
Then things got mixed, and Foulik Pasha upset the whole basket of plums. [11]
Sometimes his august master or one of his fellow petty sovereigns would sweep Mr. Flint's plans into the waste basket, and then Mr. Flint would be content to wait. [9]
She carried a little basket in which lay the gold ornaments she had worn at the festival, and which she had to restore to the keeper of the temple-treasure. [10]
Once, at a later time, Mask Twain himself mentioned the matter to Carnegie, and suggested to him that it was poor financiering to put all of one's eggs into one basket, meaning into iron. [5]
The next morning Judge Short, looking somewhat dejected after the overnight conference he had had with his wife, was innocently and somewhat ostentatiously engaged in tossing quoits with me in front of the inn, when Miss Thorn drove up in a basket cart. [9]
While we were in the garden, who should appear at the gate but Jake, with a great basket, inquiring for Mr. Kirkwood. [6]
The one trout in my basket was no burden, and I stepped lightly out. [4]
The blood throbbed in his temples, his mouth was parched, and, as a fruit-seller cried her wares from one of the archways, he took a few apples from her basket to refresh himself with their juice. [10]
Ingratitude and meanness in his beneficiaries did not wear out his compassion; he bore the insult, and the next day his basket for the beggar, his horse and chaise for the cripple, were at their door. [6]
The basket which hung about the neck of the figure was full of fruit, and the object he held in his hand might be an apple, or might be anything else. [10]
He had on his shoulders a workman's han basket, from which peeped a ship-builder's tools. [11]
He had with him a basket his mother had put up. [9]
She had imagined her with a wide, drooping hat, with a soft, clinging gown, and a bodice like a great white handkerchief crossed on her breast, holding a basket of flowers, while a King Charles spaniel gambolled at her feet. [11]
The audience loaded her stomach with their dinners, and then stole the pantry bare to load up her basket. [5]
Kit's mother, drying her eyes (and moistening them, poor soul, more than she dried them), now took from the ground a small basket, and submissively addressed herself to the turnkey, saying, would he please to listen to her for a minute? [12]
Another chorus was heard from a basket of flowers of stupendous size. [10]
The thought that he had robbed some flower or herb-gatherer of a portion of the result of her morning's work had entered his mind and, obeying a hasty impulse, he flung a glittering zecchin into the basket. [10]
As they entered he dropped another manuscript into the basket and looked up. [6]
Unlike him, she had not kept his answer, when it came into her hands, but, tearing it up into fifty fragments, had thrown it into the waste- basket, and paced her room in shame, anger and humiliation. [11]
Unless, indeed, you had a box or a basket for me to carry; then there would be some sense in it. [14]
The governor's temper got afire, and he delivered an oath at him that knocked up the dust where it struck the ground, and told him to shoulder that cask or he would carve him to cutlets and send him home in a basket. [5]
Yes, he shall go over in one basket. [5]
Dicky's way of getting information seemed guileless, and Holgate opened his basket as wide as he knew. [11]
I pick out four of the largest oranges in the basket, while all eyes are fixed on me intently, and, for the first time, pull out a piece of money. [4]
At length, they found, one day, that he had risen early, and, with his knapsack on his back, his staff in hand, her own straw hat, and little basket full of such things as she had been used to carry, was gone. [12]
Ah the poor Fishwife, it is stuck fast in the Mire; it has dropped its Basket of Fishes; and its Hands have been cut by the Scales as it seized some of the falling Creatures; and one Scale has even got into its Eye. [5]
The poems he drops into the basket are those rejected as of no account" "But does he not read the poems before he rejects them? [6]
When these were done, she took some needle-work from her basket, and sat herself down upon a stool beside the lattice, where the honeysuckle and woodbine entwined their tender stems, and stealing into the room filled it with their delicious breath. [12]
To his great disgust he could find nothing among the hundred objects and trifles that lay about to justify suspicion, till, just as he was leaving the room, he noticed in a basket near the writing-table some discarded tablets. [10]
It was a day of light and warmth, and the place was like a basket of roses. [11]
When it was dark Marget took food and wine and fruit, in a basket, and hurried away to the jail, and Satan and I walked toward my home. [5]
She did not dare to take his hand lest her feelings should overcome her; so with an assumed gaiety she put in it a rose from her basket and said: "He has been pilfering. [11]
As he was crossing the next yard with the basket in his hand, under the guidance of his former conductor, another officer called to them to stop, and came up with a pint pot of porter in his hand. [12]
Does breeding only consist in having clothes made in Savile Row and eating strawberries out of season at a pound a basket? [11]
Why he left China I don't know, but I do chance to know that if another Chinky meets Li Choo carrying a basket on his shoulders, or a package in his hand, he kow-tows, and takes it away from him, and carries it himself. [11]
This custom of carrying your husband on your head in a basket has something to recommend it, and is an exhibition of faith on the one hand, and of devotion on the other, that is seldom met with. [4]
Better freeze than carry your brains home in a basket. [5]
A rickety wagon carried us to the camp, in company with a young woman from Troy, who had a basket of good things with her for a sick brother. [6]
When dessert was carried in, the Nubian brought a basket filled with delicious figs. [10]
I lit a candle, and started toward the stairs, and met a burglar coming out of a room with a basket of tinware, which he had mistaken for solid silver in the dark. [5]
It was Mr. Brinsmade who got the surgeon to dress the man's wound, and to prescribe some of the broth from Virginia's basket. [9]

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