"All," said the major, hastily swallowing his biscuit, "positively all."
"Ah," said the major, taking a second biscuit, "that consummation of my happiness was indeed wanting." The worthy major raised his eyes to heaven and sighed.
Pickles ate
biscuits and Ginger ate a dried haddock.
"The neighbors back of us are Soda
Biscuits, and I don't care to mix with them."
Hunter brought the boat round under the stern-port, and Joyce and I set to work loading her with powder tins, muskets, bags of
biscuits, kegs of pork, a cask of cognac, and my invaluable medicine chest.
Cut up to the house and get some
biscuits, Bubbles--sugar ones and an orange or two.
Wemmick had put all the
biscuit into the post, and had paid me my money from a cash-box in a safe, the key of which safe he kept somewhere down his back and produced from his coat-collar like an iron pigtail, we went up-stairs.
I called the boy to me, and sent him to the nearest public-house for wine and
biscuits. "Be quick about it," I said; "and you shall have more money for yourself than ever you had in your life!" The boy looked at me, spit on the coins in his hand, said, "That's for luck!" and ran out of the room as never boy ran yet.
The servant returned to us, bringing with him a tiny bottle of champagne and a plateful of delicate little sugared
biscuits.
Rachel now took down a snowy moulding-board, and, tying on an apron, proceeded quietly to making up some
biscuits, first saying to Mary,--"Mary, hadn't thee better tell John to get a chicken ready?" and Mary disappeared accordingly.
One day, having to go a long way from home, he mounted his horse, taking with him a small wallet in which he had put a few
biscuits and dates, because he had to pass through the desert where no food was to be got.
Lavrushka was saying something about loaded wagons,
biscuits, and oxen he had seen when he had gone out for provisions.
So a man lent us some
biscuits; and we said we would pay him when we came back.
I say lucky for us he did not reach us, and I might almost say luckily for himself; for we had only a small breaker of water and some soddened ship's
biscuits with us, so sudden had been the alarm, so unprepared the ship for any disaster.
Go out and buy me a big box of Huntley & Palmer's
biscuits; any sort you like, only they must be theirs, and absolutely the biggest box they sell."