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The rent paid by Glaukias, for the work-room and garden you inherited from your father, pays for half at least of what we and the birds and the slaves eat. As for Philip, he lives on air and philosophy; and, besides, he is fed out of the great breadbasket of the Museum." At this point the starling interrupted the youth's vehement speech with the appropriate cry, "My strength! my strength!"
"It may be nonsense," retorted Billy, "but if I thought he really meant it, I would run my head butt into his breadbasket, an' drive 'im overboard." Explaining to the surprised and rather disappointed skipper of the mission vessel that an unexpected turn of affairs required his immediate presence in Yarmouth, the captain asked what means there were of getting to land.
"Oh, that is the soldier's gripes," said Tom, with a ghastly attempt at a jest. "Poor George!" said he, kindly, "I dare say you never knew what it was to go twenty-four hours without food before." "Never in my life, Tom." "Well, I have, and I'll tell you the only thing to do when you can't fill the breadbasket, shut it. Go to sleep till the Southern Cross comes out again."
Here, now, we consider the poor breadbasket, the necessaries of our body and of the temporal life. It is a brief and simple word, but it has a very wide scope. For when you mention and pray for daily bread, you pray for everything that is necessary in order to have and enjoy daily bread and, on the other hand, against everything which interferes with it.
We are becoming the breadbasket of the universe, you might say." James smiled at Connel, who did not return the smile. "Great distances separate these plantations," continued James. "Life is hard and lonely for the Venusian plantation owner. The Venusian Nationalists are, to my knowledge, no more than a group of landowners who have gotten together and formed a club, a fraternity.
But he could not: and so he longed for the play and study and prayers to be over and to be in bed. He drank another cup of hot tea and Fleming said: What's up? Have you a pain or what's up with you? I don't know, Stephen said. Sick in your breadbasket, Fleming said, because your face looks white. It will go away. O yes, Stephen said. But he was not sick there.
I used to powder the footman, too, on great days, but never in my life saw old Tuggeridge, except once: when he said "Oh, the barber!" tossed up his nose, and passed on. One day one famous day last January all our Market was thrown into a high state of excitement by the appearance of no less than three vehicles at our establishment. And Mrs. Breadbasket it was, sure enough Mrs.
His keen and sarcastic remarks, although they occasionally subjected him to chastisement, to a certain degree served him as a defence, for he could always raise a laugh at the expense of the individual whom he attacked, with the formidable weapon which he had inherited direct from his mother. The oldster before mentioned put his hand into the breadbasket, and seized a handful of the biscuit.
All the neighbors laughed at this poor ending of our expectations, for Jemmy had bragged not a little; however, we did not care, for the connection was always a good one, and we served Mr. Hock, the valet; Mr. Bar, the coachman; and Mrs. Breadbasket, the housekeeper, willingly enough.
Tom put the question, and the party, in deep disgust, heard the man reply: "No, thank you; I think it's cruel to make the poor birds hurt each other." "Look here," said the good-natured Bozen, "the poor lubber's all gone in amidships see how flat his breadbasket is. I say, messmate," continued Bozen, with a roar, and a jerk of his thumb over his shoulder, "come and splice the main-brace."
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