So starved and famished were the men that they ate inordinately of the sweet camas and the kouse, the biscuit root.
When dey had honey on de white folks table, de boys never did fail to fetch a honey biscuit wid dem.
Put your buttermilk biscuit in, lid on and pile live-oak coals on top.
Dar we hide, till Anderson and Newt come out a fetching ham biscuit in dey hands fer us.
De Ku Klux took and shot him and left him lying right in de middle of de road wid a biscuit in his dead mouth.
The result is a biscuit which melts like cream in the mouth--like a fair woman's smile on a hungry eye.
His biscuittrick he had learned from an old Hungarian, who, for a couple of seasons, had been his mining partner.
We had now got a supply of biscuit and flour which we hoped would last us until the return of the yacht, so we were much more comfortable in our minds than before the arrival of the 'Bramble.
All hands turned out at dawn, and cocoa and biscuit were served out.
Biscuit was entirely exhausted, and of flour we had but little, and, though Joe managed to make a very eatable cake out of preserved potatoes, the absence of bread-food was a serious inconvenience.
Acting upon his own suggestion, White dived below, to reappear a minute later with a bag of biscuit and a generous piece of salt pork, which he tossed into the dinghy.
The fire was set ablaze, coffee and meat-biscuit soup were prepared, and, with wheat bread and molasses, were set before them.
To this was added four biscuit from the bread barrel.
The flour and meat biscuit were put in double bags.
Monsieur thrust half a biscuit in his mouth and took a long drink of coffee.
We were now sailing parallel, not more than ten fathoms apart, and could have thrown a biscuit on her deck.
I at length ventured to offer a biscuit to the little boy.
The proceeding, apparently, was contrary to their notions of etiquette; and I presented the biscuit to the mother "for her little son.
On foot, with a scanty provision of biscuit in their knapsacks, the three youths followed the high road of Constantinople, and were soon enrolled, for their strength and stature, among the guards of the emperor Leo.
According to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven, and the diminution of one fourth was cheerfully allowed for the loss of weight.
The "Pirate," whose table manners savored of the forecastle, tried a biscuit and found it as hard as stone and almost as heavy.
He turned speechless to the others and saw Hicks lift a biscuit on high about to dash it onto the cabin floor.
He did not know that the biscuit happened to strike a hole that had been temporarily stopped up with putty and paint.
I ate salt pork, biscuit and sorghum while she talked.
Early the first forenoon he called aloud for biscuit and salmon; biscuit and ham were brought; he looked on them inscrutably, and signed they should be set aside.
And yet even the coco-palm must be helped in infancy with some extraneous nutriment, and through much of the low archipelago there is planted with each nut a piece of ship's biscuit and a rusty nail.
Then Kunin saw his visitor take a biscuit from the cake-basket, nibble a little bit off it, then turn it over in his hand and hurriedly stick it in his pocket.
Her only treat is when I bring an apple or some biscuit from a visit.
Better get out some biscuit or something to munch on, for we shan't find a place where we can cook a meal until we get nearly to the top.
If you get hungry, come over and I'll give you a biscuit to take back there with you.
Giving each a small portion of ship biscuit and a taste of water, he enjoined on each a careful watchfulness and a provident use of our small stock of provisions.
That day we ate the last of our ship biscuit and were reduced to a few drops of water each.
Joe prepared their evening meal, which consisted of biscuit and pemmican, and was hardly tasted by either of the party.
It was now only five days since our travellers had quitted Zanzibar; their pemmican had not yet been touched; their stock of biscuit and potted meat was enough for a long trip, and there was nothing to be replenished but the water.
Annie answered she would take a biscuit and cup of tea, if she pleased, and then retire to her apartment, as she was much fatigued.
Here a man would have in the place of a sabre-tache a biscuit tin suspended by a cord, or a hatchet and a tin-opener, or a spare pair of boots, which swung bravely as he marched.
Wives and children in numbers followed or preceded, and to our attempts to show them little kindnesses they shrank from us as if we had been wolves, the children generally howling with fear when we offered them a biscuit or a coin.
The meat was tough beyond exaggeration, and the biscuit had to be broken with a stone into small pieces; but we had wine, for this abounded across the frontier and was indispensable.
The air of her own shop was heavy with the pungent odors of raw vegetables, cheeses, and dried fish, and no brilliance redeemed the sardine and biscuit boxes which surrounded her.
She had aroused one of the comatose macaws from his lethargy, and now stood watching him as he munched the biscuit she had taken from a neighboring table.
She had her back toward them and did not even turn around, but taking a biscuit from a dish she began to butter it and said in a voice that was big and deep but not especially unpleasant: "Why don't you come in and allow the door to shut?
Illustration] She took another biscuit from a plate and dipped it in a pot of honey and calmly began eating it.
As before mentioned, when the work commenced at these early hours, a dram and a biscuit were served out to the artificers; and the writer, upon these occasions, found a cup of coffee very salutary.
His dinner seldom cost him any thing, for he generally made some excuse to dine with his master's clients; and, as to his other meals, a crust of bread or a dry biscuit was regarded as fare sufficient after an ample dinner.
Water was then lowered down to them, and a couple of handfuls of biscuit were tossed after it; when again turning the key upon them and pocketing it, the Captain returned to the quarter-deck.
Nevertheless, he spoke warmly of the view to Captain Brisket, rather than miss which he preferred to miss his breakfast, contenting himself with half a biscuit and a small cup of tea on deck.
By the time she sighted us we were reduced to half a biscuit a day each and two teaspoonfuls o' water, and not a man grumbled.
On this day, between the disks of her beaten biscuit showed the pinkness of sliced ham.
It was as though, with Hattie, to take another biscuit was a matter of conscience and protest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "biscuit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
