![]() I knew there would be pleasure in meeting my master again, even though broken by the fear that he was so soon to cease to be my master, and by the knowledge that I was nothing to him: but there was ever in Mr. Paul's struck one now I was hopelessly endeavouring to get a licence to marry Dora, having nothing but one of Uriah Heep's gloves to offer in exchange, which the whole Commons rejected and still, more or less conscious of my own room, I was always tossing about like a distressed ship in a sea of bed-clothes. Spenlow on appearing before the clients in that airy attire now I was hungrily picking up the crumbs that fell from old Tiffey's daily biscuit, regularly eaten when St. Now I was ragged, wanting to sell Dora matches, six bundles for a halfpenny now I was at the office in a nightgown and boots, remonstrated with by Mr. When the moon came they set out, but they found no crumbs, for the many thousands of birds which fly about in the woods and fields had picked them all up. ![]() He went straight over to the window and brushed out the crumbs of sugar then he took his fly-box, and emptied it outside, and threw away the box then he shut the window, and crossing over, sat down on his bed. (Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson) “That?” returned Silver, smiling away, but warier than ever, his eye a mere pin-point in his big face, but gleaming like a crumb of glass. ![]() ![]() The public, represented by a boy with a comforter, and a shabby-genteel man secretly eating crumbs out of his coat pockets, was warming itself at a stove in the centre of the Court. "Come, eat something," she said but I put both away from me, feeling as if a drop or a crumb would have choked me in my present condition. Stoop down, and let me take the crumbs off of your bonnet. They yelped and howled under the rain of blows, but struggled none the less madly till the last crumb had been devoured. Hansel, however little by little, threw all the crumbs on the path. Remove take take away withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract) Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.īreak up fragment fragmentise fragmentize (break or cause to break into pieces) Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, diggingĬoat surface (put a coat on cover the surface of furnish with a surface)Ĭookery cooking preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)Ĭrumb (small piece of e.g. Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crumb"):īreadcrumb (crumb of bread used especially for coating or thickening)Ĭracker crumbs (crumbs of crackers used especially for coating or thickening)īaked goods (foods (like breads and cakes and pastries) that are cooked in an oven)Ĭrumbly (easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder) The British call a contemptible person a 'git'ĭisagreeable person unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)īit bite morsel (a small amount of solid food a mouthful) Small indefinite amount small indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude)Ī person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptibleīum crumb dirty dog git lowlife puke rat rotter scum bag skunk so-and-so stinker stinkpot ![]() There were few crumbs of comfort in the report Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure ![]()
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