A child came bowling its hoop through the concourse of birds, and Ralph threw his last
crumbs of bread into the bushes with a snort of impatience.
Tosilos begged him to explain what had happened him, but Sancho replied that it would not be good manners to leave his master waiting for him; and that some other day if they met there would be time enough for that; and then getting up, after shaking his doublet and brushing the
crumbs out of his beard, he drove Dapple on before him, and bidding adieu to Tosilos left him and rejoined his master, who was waiting for him under the shade of a tree.
"Yet I do not remember seeing the yellow hen since she picked up the
crumbs of cake."
"Here, you odd little chicken!" said Phoebe; "here are some nice
crumbs for you!"
`You're wrong about the
crumbs,' said the Mock Turtle:
I don't wish to bribe you, but I'll give you my heartiest kiss, and promise to eat every
crumb of the loaf myself."
The beadle drank his tea to the last drop; finished a piece of toast; whisked the
crumbs off his knees; wiped his lips; and deliberately kissed the matron.
But she died between summers; then Robert posed as an inconsolable, prostrating himself at the feet of Madame Ratignolle for whatever
crumbs of sympathy and comfort she might be pleased to vouchsafe.
'Bring more,' he cried, 'these
crumbs don't fill it.' So seven thousand waggons of the gold of the whole kingdom were driven up; these the strong man shoved into the sack, oxen and all.
And, instead of trying the other dishes, all she did was to put every now and then a
crumb, of bread into her mouth, that would not have made a meal for a sparrow.
The interior looked like a white pasty, a sort of soft
crumb, the flavour of which was like that of an artichoke.
You will live long, if you act like the miser who, bit by bit,
crumb by
crumb, collects and heaps up diamonds and gold.