"Trayful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... luxurious cushions. Her mood seemed suddenly to have changed. She was no longer gay. She watched the faces of the passers-by pensively. Presently she pointed out of the window to a gray-bearded old man tottering along in the gutter with a trayful of matches. A cold wind ...
— The Lighted Way • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... followed by the buyers and packers, and to these men, at central points in the fields, the mule-carts bring empty crates. The pickers carry little trays containing six baskets, each holding a quart. As fast as they fill these, they flock in to the buyers. If a trayful, or six good quarts, are offered, the buyer gives the picker a yellow ticket, worth twelve cents. When less than six baskets are brought, each basket is paid for with a green ticket, worth two cents. These two tickets are eventually exchanged ...
— Success With Small Fruits • E. P. Roe
... entire trayful of food, and when Abe leaned back the waiter presented a check for ...
— Abe and Mawruss - Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter • Montague Glass
... wife and mother said to 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 ...
— Welsh Fairy Tales • William Elliot Griffis
... send them home," said the other girl, looking up from her trayful of cards. "It's too late to get anybody else, and goodness knows we can't get ...
— The Rose Garden Husband • Margaret Widdemer |
