Dining Without Crumbs

The fish swam up for crumbs.

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

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

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.'

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.

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.

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.