Dining Without Crumbs

Ah, the crumbs!

'You're wrong about the crumbs,' said the Mock Turtle 'crumbs would all wash off in the sea.

Snow was very plentiful And crumbs were very few

Besides, you'd get crumbs in it, you cabbage head!

Oh, no, no! No, no, no! You'll get crumbs in it.

'They have their tails in their mouths and they're all over crumbs.'

Crumbs, I'd have it three times a day. You'd soon get sick of it.

Oh, those greedy crumbs! Trying to pick her off on a lousy 15buck fine.

Go and clean Number 3, Beryl. I can see the crumbs on it from here.

For so many years Antony has fed upon the crumbs that fell from Julius Caesar's table.

But she answered him, Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.

They were only in gold and silver and the people were being given only crumbs and refuse.

But she said, Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

And she said, Truth, Lord yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

But even a fancy funeral ain't worth waitin' for if I've gotta do business... with crumbs like you.

As a consequence, they settle for the crumbs that are eventually offered by the ship owners after a disaster.

They exploit our wealth and leave the crumbs for us while so many freedom fighters died on our behalf.

And the title for my cookbook was going to be Dining Without Crumbs The Art of Eating Over the Sink.

And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

My favorite being, Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female, but not the male.

If it does not, our grandchildren. and their grandchildren will suffer the disgrace of begging for crumbs from the Americans.

But even as I touched the dry, flaking crumbs of nourishment... it was as if my body had ceased to exist.

And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

'Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,' the Hatter grumbled 'you shouldn't have put it in with the bread knife.'

and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

laid the second floor, and swept out the shavings, would come out regularly at lunch time and pick up the crumbs at my feet.

The crumbs from the rich nations have become insufficient to satisfy the needs of a third world seeking to extract itself from backwardness and to eradicate poverty and disease.

Well, you take biscuits and oil and vinegar... and some, um, onions and garlic... and you, uh and bread crumbs and you fry 'em all together in a pan.

If you had lived like he has, all of his life on crumbs and bones, maybe you'd do a crazy thing if you had chance to make a fortune.

Meanwhile also came the chickadees in flocks, which, picking up the crumbs the squirrels had dropped, flew to the nearest twig and, placing them under their claws, hammered away at them with their little bills, as if it were an insect in the bark, till they were sufficiently reduced for their slender throats.

A little flock of these titmice came daily to pick a dinner out of my woodpile, or the crumbs at my door, with faint flitting lisping notes, like the tinkling of icicles in the grass, or else with sprightly day day day, or more rarely, in spring like days, a wiry summery phe be from the woodside.

One sultry, sticky morning, I woke up to find a long column, about 20 feet long, of tiny black ants trooping through a crack under the front door, up through the entry hall, and into the kitchen. The line of ants climbed up onto the counter, where they were painstakingly carting bread crumbs and grains of soggy cooked rice and white sugar back outside.