A great many baskets (about twenty) lying on the beach, tied up, we cut them open.
In the mean time, a baked hog, and two baskets of baked yams, were produced, and afterward divided into ten portions.
The baskets were carried up to an old man, whom I took to be the chief priest, and who sat on the prince's right hand, without the shed.
I now went and examined the several baskets which had been presented; a curiosity that I was not allowed before to indulge, because every thing was then taboo.
Next morning the baskets were drawn up full of what looked like whelk shells.
Then they cast out the rope, the baskets sank, but the cork floated.
And all about on the blue water were other boats and all the crews of all the boats were busy with ropes and baskets and frogs and mussels.
They were fastening rush baskets to a long rope with a great piece of cork at the end, and in each basket they put mussels or little frogs.
If ever I marry, I only hope that twelve years after, my wife's embroidered baskets may still be for me.
Why, madame, may we not think him happy in having a lovely wife, happy in her decorating his paper-baskets so charmingly?
Then Edith paid old Malcom by making up bouquets for sale at the hotel, and arranging baskets of flowers for parties there and elsewhere, and other lighter labors.
Flowers in fanciful baskets on the tables and in great banks on the mantels and in the fireplaces deservedly attracted much attention and praise, though the sum expended on their transient beauty was appalling.
She therefore opened her bundle and set out the little baskets before her mother very quietly.
Three or fourbaskets constituted the fruiterer's entire stock, and probably the entire supply for the metropolis of America that day.
She was startled from her heaviness by the sharp click of the gate latch, and Malcom entered with two large baskets of strawberry-plants.
Only mind and fill my baskets quite full, for preserving.
At the next turnstile they overtook some women carrying market baskets loaded with vegetables and other things to sell.
The angry Merchant immediately turned about and drove the Ass back to the seashore, where he loaded him with two great baskets of sponges.
The old man wagged his grey head, and, standing over the baskets of fishes, groaned as Mordecai groaned for his people.
In the dinghy were three round baskets heaped high with mackerel.
Rearrayed in picnic garb, the house guests were ready for the fun, and the Frederick Varians were getting together and looking over the baskets of supper.
The baskets were all ready, and the family expected to start on the picnic almost as soon as we went off.
If the haul was bigger than the needs of the village, the overplus was sent to the market in Papeete, or kept in huge anchored, floating baskets of wicker.
It was not entirely fishless, for before the bell rang we would see over the railings a few handfuls of varos, crayfish, and shrimps and perhaps a dozen small baskets of oysters.
Soon the baskets of purau-fiber were filled, and they took back the canoe to its resting-place, and returned to their house, again treading the emerald trail which shone bright under the flooding moon.
In shallow water others waited with little baskets, and, scooping up the fish from the net, emptied them into larger baskets slung from their waists.
On all sides he beheld vast store of apples--some hanging in oppressive opulence on the trees, some gathered into baskets and barrels for the market, others heaped up in rich piles for the cider-press.
It was loaded also with hampers of game and baskets and boxes of delicacies, and hares hung dangling their long ears about the coachman's box, presents from distant friends for the impending feast.
We heard a number complain of a lump in their throat that would scarcely allow them to swallow a bite, although the basketswere well filled with all the good things a lunch basket can be stored with.
And now Mrs. Ross and the girls are ready with baskets to go with me to gather what we can find in the way of flowers and leaves along the hillside and valley of the Keya Paha.
She set forth the cans and baskets that formed the camp dinner-set and served the primitive meal.
He tossed one of Cesca's pitch baskets at Billy, then threw himself in the sand.
The big baskets of yams burst, and pineapples and pomegranates rolled back and forth.
For see, if the compass lied and the sun did not keep its engagements, why should not objects lose their mutual attraction and why should not a few bushel baskets of force be annihilated?
Year after year the children of former generations trudged up the great hill with their egg-baskets over their arms and had the happiest times imaginable with their Easter games.
Then they made baskets of big leaves and twigs, and filled them with berries for supper, and climbed back over the big tree and trudged along up the path.
I gathered also that at first they were forced to take five basketsof rubber, and to make them take ten they had chained up Mopali, and that two more baskets had been recently added.
He stated that he had taken tenbaskets of rubber to the post, and they wanted one more, so they chained him up to get it.
I ran away and left my mother, and went with two old people who were running away, but we were caught, and the old people were killed, and the soldiers made me carry the baskets with the things these dead people had and the hands they cut off.
It used to take ten days to get the twenty baskets of rubber--we were always in the forest and then when we were late we were killed.
Later, I met Mabungikindo, a Chief from Bokoko, a large town inland, who was also returning from the chain in which he had been detained to get three more baskets of rubber.
In another store where rubber was being dried seven natives came in while I was inspecting it carrying baskets which were filled with the cut-up rubber, which they then at once began sorting and spreading on high platforms.
His own village has to take 300 baskets of india-rubber.
When the three extra baskets were produced he was set at liberty.
These baskets are used at Bikoro in packing up the gum-copal for conveyance down the river and to Europe--the river transport being effected by Government steamers.
Then they killed a lot of people, and they cut off their hands and put them into baskets and took them to the white man.
As soon as the load is deposited at the dwelling he retires, and under no pretext may he help to pour the corn into the baskets in which it is kept.
These consisted of baskets ornamented with porcupine quills, moccasins of deer-skin, and boxes of birch bark.
Pastry-cooks carrying baskets and trays full of sugar plums, cakes, and all kinds of sweetmeats.
At length she thought it would be best to talk the matter over with her husband; therefore she took up her baskets and bade him go with her.
It was dreadful to have to pick up the emptybaskets and go home, feeling that the long, delightful Saturday was over, and that there wouldn't be another for a week.
Clover fetched a couple of baskets from the wood-shed.
Clover, while little Phil tipped the baskets upside down, as if to make sure there was nothing left that could possibly be eaten.
The great Halles then came into view, with their cold glare of electric lights, and thousands of people moving about with baskets upon their backs, unloading the vegetable carts and piling the contents along the streets.
I asked Louisa when and how the Indians learned to make baskets and she said they always knew.
We might take in a waggon-load of grain for sale, or merely carry on our backs baskets with country produce, or we could row up in a boat with fish.
There were plenty of fish in the river; and the boys knew the pools they loved best, and often returned with theirbaskets well filled.
They descended into the hold, where they remained perfectly quiet until the first light of dawn enabled them to see what they were doing, and then moved some baskets full of vegetables, and concealed themselves behind them.
All through October and November the Spaniards were hard at work advancing their batteries, sinking greatbaskets filled with sand in the Old Haven to facilitate the passage of the troops, and building floating batteries in the Geule.
He dressed up a score of soldiers, some as peasants, others as countrywomen, and provided them with baskets of eggs and other provisions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "baskets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
