"Trayful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the waitress appeared again with a trayful of parcels, done up in the most fascinating way, in ...
— Marjorie's Vacation • Carolyn Wells
... open. I threw myself beside him, as he replaced the box on its bottom and removed the lid. I cannot tell what I expected; a million's worth of diamonds might perhaps have pleased me; my cheeks burned, my heart throbbed to bursting; and lo! there was disclosed but a trayful of papers, neatly taped, and a cheque-book of the customary pattern. I made a snatch at the tray to see what was beneath; but the captain's hand fell on mine, ...
— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
... her husband, that she had a great longing for apples. She would like to taste some like those which he long ago gave her. At once, the good man dropped what he was doing and hurried off to his neighbor, who had first presented him with a trayful of these apples. ...
— Welsh Fairy Tales • William Elliot Griffis
... very much like it, Miss Dorothy," she answered; "but I did not forget you; I brought you up a whole trayful of things." ...
— Pretty Madcap Dorothy - How She Won a Lover • Laura Jean Libbey
... you had to miss it! One thing, though, you'll get a trayful of the good things sent in to you, I shouldn't wonder. I know there's loads left, for I happened to slip out to the kitchen for a drink of water—I was that dry after all those salty nuts, and I didn't want to trouble 'em—and I saw ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) • Various |
