Then, taking a handful of biscuits, I returned to my chair, and began to devour them, ravenously.

Lander's force was but a handful in comparison: he escaped with them for their lives that day, leaving the town and the hills in full possession of the Confederates.

His eloquent reasoning, combined with a lively desire to get out of the place as soon as possible, so far wrought on Neddy that he produced the sack which he had brought with him, and held its mouth open, though with trembling hands, while Mike scraped up handful after handful of gold coins and poured them into it.

When washed thoroughly, they should be rinsed in succession in soft water, in which common salt has been dissolved, in the proportion of a handful to three or four gallons, and afterwards wrung gently, as soon as rinsed, with as little twisting as possible, and then hung out to dry.

If he wakes and wants water, press the moisture of these leaves to his lips, it's sassafras; and, stayhere is a sort of plantain, filled with little globules of dew; pour these into his mouth, and at a pinch give him a handful from the pool.

And as he spoke he chucked the whole double handful into the now empty chest, then arose and dusted the sand from his breeches.

Such pleasure is to one kind Being known, 155 My neighbour, when with punctual care, each week Duly as Friday comes, though pressed herself By her own wants, she from her store of meal Takes one unsparing handful for the scrip Of this old Mendicant, and, from her door

The way they make this bread is as follows:From large round panniers filled with wheat they take out a handful at a time, sorting it most carefully and expeditiously, and throwing every defective grain into another basket.

We few strangers had the Alps to ourselves and they were as lavish of their splendours to the handful as to the multitude.

They agreed very well together in their avaricious rage at being unable to amass money by the handful without any great exertion, and in their ambition to make their son a gentleman, since only a gentleman could become wealthy.

Fifty years ago we were but a handful among the thousands that knew not God, and to-day we rule the world.

His visitor obeyed, lifting a double handful out of the water and holding it over the box, dripping, gleaming, the most beautiful thing that comes out of the earth, save only life, and the assertion may stand, even if the distinction is without difference, if the crystal is born, grows old, and dies as undeniably as the rose.

Was there hope, indeed, for any one of us penned in a wooden palisade fifty miles from aid, a handful against an army?

But as she was emptying the bottom of the press, after having burned, handful by handful, the papers with which it had been filled, Felicite uttered a stifled cry of triumph.