Presently, leaving her little ones in a safe place, she came down to the cars, and was regaled from our lunch basket with what to her must have been rare tidbits, supplied from the cuisine of the Grand Hotel at Colombo.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
In the meantime, also, Tasper Britt and a hired girl had become fixtures in the Harnden home-and the hired girl was quite in love with Vona and in entire sympathy with her stand; the girl brought to Vona's room the tidbits of all the meals and offered to put tacks in Britt's doughnuts if that would help matters any.
"When Egypt Went Broke"
Holman Day
Day after day, year in and out, he creeps up one tree-trunk after another, pausing only to peer right and left into the crevices of the bark, in search of microscopic tidbits.
"Birds in the Bush"
Bradford Torrey