egg-basket

So that was settled, and the gossip put the peasant into his egg-basket and carried him home.

Household Tales 2003

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

The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter

So yearlings, taken as a whole, do little toward filling the egg-basket until January or later.

Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry Pratt Food Co.

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.

Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Fanny Fern

"Stop that, you greedy black rascal," retorted the professor, laying about him with the egg-basket.

The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic 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.

The Golden Bird 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.

The Golden Bird 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.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

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.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884

When she came out the first thing she saw was the egg-basket piled full.

Shapes that Haunt the Dusk Henry Mills Alden 1877