Your lap seems full of good things, and here is a basket of something between us which has been knocking my elbow unmercifully.
Now I can manage the other parcel and the basket very well.
You will be to visit me in prison with a basket of provisions; you will not refuse to visit me in prison?
Thomas will go too, but give us in the luncheon-basket first.
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.
It had ropes and two wooden seats and a wicker basket all attached to the handle.
Trot seized the lunch-basket and ran to the house, where she found her mother busy in the kitchen.
So Trot, remembering that Button-Bright would be with them and had proved himself to be a hearty eater, loaded the basket with all the good things she could find.
They now packed the lunch-basket with the remains of the feast, for they knew a long journey was before them and feared they might be hungry before they landed again.
How dare you come into my garden and knock me on the head with that awful basket and then fall on my toes and cause me pain and suffering?
So she opened the basket and they all three sat in a row on a stone bench and began to eat sandwiches and cake and pickles and cheese and all the good things that were packed in the lunch basket.
By the time she came out, lugging the basket with both hands, Cap'n Bill appeared with the new seat he had made for his own use, which he attached by means of ropes to the double seat of the boy and girl.
Suddenly the basket that was dangling below Cap'n Bill's seat struck something with a loud thud and this was followed by a yell of anger.
Trot took the empty lunch-basket and Button-Bright held fast to the precious umbrella.
Then she and Button-Bright seated themselves in the double seat, which was flat upon the pink ground, and Cap'n Bill sat before them on his own seat, to which the lunch basket had been fastened by means of a stout cord.
The rush of air past them made them hungry, so Cap'n Bill drew up the lunch-basket and held it so that Button-Bright and Trot could help themselves to the pink food, which tasted very good.
And round that part which is called the basket there were not tendrils and rough leaves, as is the case in Grecian pillars, but calyxes of the river-lotus, and the fruit of newly budding dates.
For carrying a basket and a garland When it was dark, he said that he had come By order of the bride, bringing some birds, And on this pretext he did get his supper.
And Philemon says in his Physician-- And a large basket full of silver plate.
Cratinus says-- Your basket will be full of briny pickle.
Demodocus has a basket and a table and a cup placed before him, To drink whene'er his soul desired.
If an infant refuses his mother's milk, it is often hung up in a basket on a tree, to be devoured by the vultures.
The basket they had seen the day before had been a poor thing compared to this.
He had a basket on his arm, and two bottles stuck out of one coat pocket, while a parcel protruded from the other.
But their basket evidently contained good, home-made things to eat.
She left the rest of the linen in the basket and sought her mother in the house.
Rebecca Thayer came hurrying out of the yard with a basket on her arm.
Thomas Payne passed the tree, bearing carefully Charlotte's little basket heaped with the finest cherries.
Oh, I guess you hadn't better," Rose returned, holding the basket firmly.
Here's the sugar," she said, and she took it out of the basket and placed it on the table.
While she and Joseph put the tea-basket to rights, the boy and I rearranged the gorgeous fittings of the bag, and discovered that not even a single bottle-top was missing.
The room was immense, and on a warm, bright day of midsummer might have been delightful, with its polished mosaic floor, its painted basket chairs and little tables, and its standard lamps with coloured silk shades.
There, under a huge crimson umbrella, rising flowerlike by its long slender stem from the smooth-shaven grass, sat four persons in basket chairs, round a small tea table.
A hawker passes, balancing a basket full of live and crawling crabs.
With the thanks of these poor children in her heart, an empty basket and a happy jingle in her pocket she ran nearly all the way home, burst in on Bessie, put her arms about her neck and sobbed for happiness.
Every day grandma would give Fred two biscuits, two apples and two lumps of sugar in a littlebasket and he would take them over to the pasture.
He threw in his basket and crabbing net and then, getting in himself, he pulled out into the bay.
I can carry a basket or pail just the same As a boy, and better than some I could name.
She knew that half of what was in the basket was meant for her.
These she placed in a large but pretty basket that once had been sent, filled with rare fruit, to Bessie, from Philip, and the older girl sighed when she gave it to her sister.
He would take the basket in his mouth, and trot across the street to the butcher's for the bone.
The basket was one they used to carry their dinners to school in, and, of course, this could not be used to keep it in all the time.
The gentleman put his hand in his pocket, drew it out, and dropped into Katie's basket a silver dollar.
Lib would allow no one to carry the lunchbasket but herself, as she remarked, "It is safer with me.
By two we had been landed at the mine, the buggy was gone again, and we were left to our own reflections and the basket of cold provender, until Hanson should arrive.
Benbow could not lie still in his bunk after he had lost his leg; he must be on deck in a basket to direct and animate the fight.
A basket is sunk under water with one foot upon it, and the gravel from the bank prized out into it with the usual iron-shod bamboo; it is then lifted out, carried ashore, and washed.
As it floats on the water, moored by a string to a stone, the basket of gravel is emptied into it, and the larger stones picked out.
The washing consists simply of cleaning the basket of muddy gravel with water, and picking over the remains twice by hand.
The basket is held by a band which passes over the forehead; the result is a stooping gait, the arms being swung across the body, as a sailor's, as they walk or almost jog along.
Then the housekeeper came to the back-door at her convenience, and took the basket in.
She got the clothes-basket out of the shed, and packed them in it.
She shoved the basket into a corner, and looked about for amusement.
She had a basket on her arm, and looked as if she was returning from market.
And a china fruit basket with an apple on the handle," went on Felicity, much relieved.
It was folded up in a newspaper packet on top of the dried herring with which the basket was filled.
Cecily sat down by her half filled basket and began to cry.
And oh," exclaimed Cecily in delight, "there's the china fruitbasket with the apple on the handle.
It isn't like the religious fruitbasket game, is it?
Her arms moved in narrowing circles, higher and higher above the basket lid, and the lid began to rise.
There was a man had his horse drawing seaweed up there on the rocks, the way you see them drawing it every day, in a basket on the mare's back.
A basket on her head she bare; Her brow was smooth and white: To see a child so very fair, It was a pure delight!
She put the ducks into a basket and said to take them back soon as ever we got our suppers, and we must hurry because we had to bathe and learn our texts for Sunday-school in the morning.
He gave the limb andbasket to mother to hold, kissed her good-bye, and me too, before he mounted.
The meat was in a flax basket, and a basket of cooked potatoes was set down with it.
By the prophet's side was a flax basket containing some potatoes and pork, with which he had been breaking his fast after his journey.
But no man dared, by way of retaliation, to try the potato-basket trick on Titokowaru.
Titoko immediately ordered the man to throw the potatoes and basket away, for the food had become infected, through contact with the priest, with the mysterious and deadly microbe of the tapu, and consequently unfit to be eaten.
Bent tied his flax basket of eels and honey to the line.
His usual and most effective method of silencing the pretender was to take a basket of potatoes in his hand and seek out his rival.
I saw K[=a]tene squatting there, with a basket of this man-meat and some potatoes before him.
He passed the basket strap over her shoulder for her, Tim following on behind, panting, as guardian of the spoils.
That was my fishing rod and my fish basket I put down there; but I didn't think you'd know anything about it.
She placed the basket down under the shadow of the willow trees, and hung up a certain rod on certain nails under the eaves of the cabin.
He had been compelled to abandon his basket of food, which became a perilous incumbrance on the glacier, and had now no means of refreshing himself but by breaking off and eating some of the pieces of ice.
He had several very bad falls, lost hisbasket and bread, and was very much frightened at the strange noises under the ice.
Looking them all over, he picked up the basket of bread and started off with it on the journey.
The other servants laughed at his foolishness, for that basket was the heaviest of all.
Like his brother, he was much surprised at the sight of the glacier, and had great difficulty in crossing it, even after leaving his basket behind him.
Put into a pastry shell, arrange strips of paste in a basket pattern over the top, and bake until these are browned.
Large supply houses now regularly basket their fowls for about two weeks before putting them on the market.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "basket" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
