Dining Without Crumbs

I'll have the sausage biscuit, please.

The fish swam up for crumbs.

'You're wrong about the crumbs,' said the Mock Turtle 'crumbs would all wash off in the sea.

Darling, have a biscuit. Don't get upset.

It's not hazardous nuclear waste it's a biscuit.

Soylent crumbs! Two D's a kilo. Nothing cheaper in the market.

Mum, can I have a biscuit? No, you shouldn't eat between meals.

Her Royal Highness has decided to throw some crumbs to the peasants.

'They have their tails in their mouths and they're all over crumbs.'

The first biscuit we're going to lose before we even leave the farm.

Mom, please can I have a biscuit? No, you can't you shouldn't eat between meals.

If you want to eat a biscuit nowadays we have to buy a biscuit within a plastic wrapper, within a plastic tray, within a cardboard box, within a plastic foil, within a plastic bag.

We were watching the bird eat the crumbs then I sneezed, and he was gone in a flash.

My favorite being, Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female, but not the male.

'Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,' the Hatter grumbled 'you shouldn't have put it in with the bread knife.'

laid the second floor, and swept out the shavings, would come out regularly at lunch time and pick up the crumbs at my feet.

Rachel Halliday, who had taken her hands out of a batch of biscuit, to hear the news, stood with them upraised and floury, and with a face of the deepest concern.

The barman leant his fat red arms on the counter and talked of horses with an anaemic cabman, while a black bearded man in grey snapped up biscuit and cheese, drank Burton, and conversed in American with a policeman off duty.

It was an ordinary school night, desserts has long since ended and the last remaining crumbs of the chocolate chip cookies have been eaten, when I realized that both my teenage daughters were still sitting there and they were talking to me.

First he takes about a double handful of shavings out of his grego pocket, and places them carefully before the idol then laying a bit of ship biscuit on top and applying the flame from the lamp, he kindled the shavings into a sacrificial blaze.

Presently, after many hasty snatches into the fire, and still hastier withdrawals of his fingers (whereby he seemed to be scorching them badly), he at last succeeded in drawing out the biscuit then blowing off the heat and ashes a little, he made a polite offer of it to the little negro.

Meanwhile also came the chickadees in flocks, which, picking up the crumbs the squirrels had dropped, flew to the nearest twig and, placing them under their claws, hammered away at them with their little bills, as if it were an insect in the bark, till they were sufficiently reduced for their slender throats.

A little flock of these titmice came daily to pick a dinner out of my woodpile, or the crumbs at my door, with faint flitting lisping notes, like the tinkling of icicles in the grass, or else with sprightly day day day, or more rarely, in spring like days, a wiry summery phe be from the woodside.