The practical application of their Courtesy lesson would be the gathering of a great basketful of blue-bonnets for the ladies of the Guild, who wanted to decorate the parish house with them for an entertainment to be given there.
Two little boys came smiling up to Gordon one day, and pressed him to buy one of them for a little basketful of dhoora.
Illustration: In the Soudan buying two children for a basketful of dhoora] One man stole a cow, and when the owner found out the thief and came to claim his cow, it was too late.
At that moment two baker's boys, carrying between them a large basketful of pies and cakes and loaves, and some paper bags of flour, happened to be passing the inn door.
The sailors were as good as their word, and produced a couple of round ruddy cheeses and a basketful of biscuits.
He liked to ridge up his little plot of potatoes; he liked to creep up his ladder and mend the thatch of his cottage; he liked to cut himself a cabbage, and to gather the one small basketful of apples.
It was so called because the cause of war was a basketful of apples which had been brought into the town of Metz without paying duty to the officers of the Duke of Lorraine.
It befell that in this year, 1429, he was waging war against the citizens of Metz, the War of the Basketful of Apples.
Your admirers call by scores to ascertain when you may be expected home; and I do not exaggerate in the least when I say that there is a champagne basketful of periodicals and letters upstairs, that have arrived recently.
Many a basketful has been brought to me to be identified with the hope of their edibility.
The mushroom-eater counts himself lucky indeed when he can find a basketful of this species after "the joiner squirrel" has satisfied his love of this special good thing.
Suppose again just one basketful is left, when the work has so progressed.
A simple basketful is wanting to complete it, and the work stops.
They ran down the mountain, dug a basketful quickly, and hurried home.
On the sixtieth evening Mem Loimis gave Kut a basketful of water for his uncle in the west.
Thought the Cat, "I ate a basketfulof cakes, I ate my friend the Parrot, I ate the abusive old Woman, and shall I blush to eat a Washerman?
Now the Cat thought to herself, "I ate a basketful of cakes, I ate my friend the Parrot, and shall I blush to eat this old hag?
Mr Rowland was full of concern, and would have had Sydney throw away the basketful of good things he had hoarded for his friend.
Mr. Basketful paused in the operation of weighing the butter.
Mr. Sim Basketful had sat with an expression of utter boredom during the latter portion of the member's speech, finally working himself up into a volcanic mood as it neared an end.
As the unhappy chairman and his confederate were leaving the scene of their disappointment Sim Basketful brushed violently past the Irish orator and confronted them.
Mr. Basketful was a true Briton, and with the aid of a voice which drowned all competitors he clung to his theme with magnificent tenacity.
Mr. Basketful was by this time in the middle of the road, so he prolonged the encounter as long as possible.
The Methodists were incited to emulation by all this activity and Sim Basketful started an Epworth League.
During the performance Sim Basketful made several ineffectual excursions to that abandoned region to demand order, but was met by a fusillade of confectionery.
Mr. Basketful was a choleric Englishman, and one of Coonie's chief diversions was to put him into a rage by a dilatory approach to the village.
Sawad nga tungà sa bukag, A remainder of half a basketful after the crop had been divided.
Nagbaguud siya sa usa ka alat nga mangga, She was staggering under the load of a basketful of mangoes.
You will have to go every morning to that well (indicating the one mentioned above), and throw a basketful of flowers in" said the doctor.
In a month he was all right; but he never discontinued the practice of going to the well and throwing in a basketful of flowers with his own hands.
There was so great a multitude of date plantations that it used to be said proverbially of the Babylonians: "A basketful of dates for a denar, and yet they do not apply themselves to the study of the Law!
He was accustomed to say that a grain of pepper (acuteness) was better than a basketful of melons.
Georgie gathered a great basketful of nasturtiums, heliotrope, and mignonette to carry down to Miss Gisborne, and Marian was sent off in the village-cart with a similar basketful for Mrs. Frewen.
However, he did it without more remonstrance; pouring into the scuttle at the top of the machine about a basketful of broken rock; and then a dozen men went to the wheel, and forced it round, as sailors do.
The liquation thorns are placed apart by themselves, of which one basketful is mixed with the precious thorns to be re-melted.
First he throws a basketful of charcoals on to the ground in front of the hearth, and kindles them by adding live coals, and having thrown live coals on to the cakes placed within, he spreads them equally all over with an iron shovel.
The master himself throws half a basketful of charcoal into the crucible through the aperture next to the nozzle pipe, and prepares the bellows, in order to be able to begin the second operation on the morning of the following day.
Then he pours in a basketful of ashes and tamps them with the large rammer; then again and again he pours in ashes and tamps them with the rammer.
The smelter, when he alloys copper with lead, with his hand throws into the heated furnace, first the large fragments of copper, then a basketful of charcoal, then the smaller fragments of copper.
A basketful of fragments of the cakes is thrown into the furnace, then the mixture of other things, and then the slag.
Up sprang Nimble, and in a trice let drop a whole basketful of rich ripe mangoes.
But you have a big basketful of bread now," said Simple.
A few knives and forks would never be missed from the basketful in the kitchen; and, in choosing some spoons, they were careful not to take silver, because the silver was counted every evening.
Here fell a silence wherein Mrs. Agatha stared down at her basketful of roses and the Sergeant stared at her and rubbed his chin with the shears again.
Mrs. Agatha, glancing up bright-eyed from her fragrant basketful of roses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "basketful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
