"Breadbasket" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... put his hand into the breadbasket, and seized a handful of the biscuit. "Now I'll bet you a glass of grog that you don't throw a biscuit at my head," cried Jerry, with ...
— The King's Own • Captain Frederick Marryat
... proofs, for since you've been ill I've been eating your pork and drinking your grog, which latter can't be too plentiful in the Bay of Biscay. And now that I've cured you, you'll be tucking all that into your own little breadbasket, so that I'm no gainer, and I think that you may be convinced that you never had or will have two more disinterested thumpings in all your born days. However, you're very welcome, so say no more ...
— Peter Simple and The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 • Frederick Marryat |
