1 She dropped her eyes to her plate and nibbled daintily on a beaten biscuit with an elegance and an utter lack of appetite that would have won Mammy's approval.
2 She felt as young and guilty as when she was ten and had thrown a buttered biscuit at Suellen at the table.
3 Moreover, in the infancy of the first Australian settlement, the emigrants were several times saved from starvation by the benevolent biscuit of the whale-ship luckily dropping an anchor in their waters.
4 He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice-baked biscuit.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires. 5 Water was then lowered down to them, and a couple of handfuls of biscuit were tossed after it; when again turning the key upon them and pocketing it, the Captain returned to the quarter-deck.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 6 The coffee and the biscuit accompanying it proved very acceptable to Edna, who had declined refreshment at Madame Lebrun's and was now beginning to feel hungry.
7 Rachel Halliday, who had taken her hands out of a batch of biscuit, to hear the news, stood with them upraised and floury, and with a face of the deepest concern.
8 With a man of that kind I am always hail-fellow-well-met, and glad to drink a glass of tea with him, or to eat a biscuit.
9 The dinner was nearly over, and the Emperor, munching a biscuit, rose and went out onto the balcony.
10 A largish piece of the biscuit the Emperor was holding in his hand broke off, fell on the balcony parapet, and then to the ground.
11 He did not know why, but he had to have a biscuit from the Tsar's hand and he felt that he must not give way.
12 Another section amid the regimental wagons and horses which were standing in a group was busy getting out caldrons and rye biscuit, and feeding the horses.
13 A piece of biscuit and a small quantity of rum formed his supper, and he snatched a few hours' sleep, lying over the mouth of the cave.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 14 Germain, a glass of sherry and a biscuit.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 39. The Guests. 15 The major made a wise choice; he took the full glass and a biscuit.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 55. Major Cavalcanti.