Poor granma was awful fritened and she turned her back on him and went on needing the loaf cold and trembling-- that is, granma was trembling not the loaf .

When you bring me a handsome, wholesome loaf , entirely made by yourself, I shall be more pleased than if you offered me a pair of slippers embroidered in the very latest style.

“Saccharine, or turpentine, or any other 'ine, Judge Temple, you have never made a loaf larger than a good-sized sugar-plum,” returned the sheriff.

But there was a cloth spread upon the table that stood against the wall, and a cover was laid for one, with a crusty brown loaf and a bottle of wine beside the plate.

The cottage loaf and the pennyworth of milk had been set forth on a sheet of paper on the window-seat.

First, with her left hand she jammed the loaf hard and fast against her bib - where it sometimes got a pin into it, and sometimes a needle, which we afterwards got into our mouths.

Before starting their mother gave them each a loaf of bread and her blessing, and having taken a tender farewell of her and their father the three set forth on their travels.

He felt cold and stiff, when he got up next morning, and so hungry that he was obliged to exchange the penny for a small loaf , in the very first village through which he passed.

"And now," he said, rising again, "I must see to your having a bit of the loaf , and some of that wine Mr.

He had just, for the sixth time, won through to 'Iyam-ah waiting for-er theeee-yass-thorre,' and was doing some intricate three-chord work preparatory to starting over again, when a loaf of bread whizzed past his ear.

She was most economical, and when she ate she would gather up crumbs with the tip of her finger, so that nothing should be wasted of the loaf of bread weighing twelve pounds which was baked especially for her and lasted three weeks.