Open on her workbasket was a Spanish guide-book and a map attached to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference

His wife's workbasket was on a high stand by her side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angel With No Hands]

Even then Mrs Murchison had to put away her workbasket, and John.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Imperialist] Reference

She didna use them all, and I found them in her workbasket later.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]

I bent swiftly and grabbed the workbasket, in time to prevent it being soaked by the flood of milk.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]

Her workbasket was standing by her chair, piled high with mending that she had neglected for her pleasuring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference

"So I reached down into my workbasket, took my wee knife from its sheath, and went for his balls, " she concluded.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]

"You are right, Blanche," Elizabeth said to her maid, who was sitting near her arranging the spools in a workbasket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ill Met By Moonlight]

It is not total depravity that leads a child to pull the articles from the workbasket, or tear the book, or demolish the toy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training] Reference

Her workbasket stood open, some half-knitted garment dragged out and left to dangle carelessly down the side like a dead rabbit.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]

"Go up," Aunt Cord had said, brushing the froth of lace off her lap and into her workbasket, where it lay in an unaccustomed tangle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wizard and Glass]

I hesitated-but instinct was too much for me, and I hastily scooped up the balls of thread and dropped them back into the workbasket.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]

She was just about to replace the needle in the workbasket, before showing herself to her mother, when, suddenly, she pricked her finger.    From Wordnik.com.  [All About Johnnie Jones] Reference

So I came into my sitting room; I'd taken care to put a wee bottle of laudanum in my workbasket, in case the whisky should be not enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]

A few plates, workbasket and tin boxes on dresser.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hobson's Choice] Reference

From her workbasket in the window-seat the woman took.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of the Native] Reference

She took up her workbasket and waited for him to speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [O Pioneers!] Reference

Marie pulled a dark purple silk necktie from her workbasket.    From Wordnik.com.  [O Pioneers!] Reference

Mrs. Boyce had by now rolled up her work and shut her workbasket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcella] Reference

Phronsie now deserted old Mr. King, to run over to the big workbasket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Little Peppers and their Friends] Reference

"And Mamsie will let us take hers out of her workbasket, I guess," cried.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Little Peppers and their Friends] Reference

For something to do, or say, he stooped down to look into her open workbasket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eleanor] Reference

The schedule was thrown aside, the workbasket taken, and Mrs. James followed him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Angel over the Right Shoulder The Beginning of a New Year] Reference

Sheila, flanked by clothesbasket and workbasket, sat on the veranda mending his shirts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters] Reference

He threw himself into an easy-chair and turned over the contents of Philippa's workbasket.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Zeppelin's Passenger] Reference

A lady, carrying a small workbasket in her hand, bade the reporter good-evening as she passed out.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hoosier Chronicle] Reference

Such a trunk should be kept locked, and a smaller supply, for current use, retained in a workbasket.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School] Reference

She had taken a piece of silk embroidery from a workbasket near her, and was busily employed with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Romance of Two Worlds] Reference

Mrs. Wheeler reluctantly took up her workbasket, and the boys talked with their old, easy friendliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [One of Ours] Reference

On a small davenport table next to one of the two inexorable armchairs she found the old lady's workbasket.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best British Short Stories of 1922] Reference

Then he looked at her fingers and their uncertain movements among the silks; at the face bent over the workbasket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eleanor] Reference

Patty's knee and rummaging in his nurse's workbasket for her scissors, which his sister promptly took away from him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life] Reference

She can keep her workbasket, her desk at school, and all her other conveniences, in their proper places, and in regular order.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School] Reference

His mother gave him her workbasket to rummage, hoping to keep him quiet till dinner was ready, and returned to her housekeeping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Men] Reference

She was sitting at the table with a workbasket among the tea things, mending a glove in order to avoid her share of clearing away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Mr. Polly] Reference

"It's all ready, come on;" and tucking Ted under one arm, and her workbasket under the other, Aunt Jo promptly led the way upstairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Men] Reference

After tea and a go-to-bed romp with the little girls, I attacked the big workbasket, and had a quiet evening chatting with my new friend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Women] Reference

Give me your stockings, dear, and the workbasket; I've a corner I want to fill up here. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life] Reference