What is "picnic baskets"

Usage examples of "picnic baskets".

Here and there a few rigs stood along the street, all with picnic baskets in the back.

The people at the sides of the road were rolling up blankets, catching flying bits of paper, reloading their picnic baskets.

Knowing Emerson would refuse to return to the Amelia until nightfall, I had ordered picnic baskets, and we tucked into the food and especially the drink with gusto.

Around the island people were sitting together, opening picnic baskets, placating shouting children.

For while they had picnic baskets with them, they didn't appear to be eating.

Then they carefully laid a blanket on the clearing and began to unpack their picnic baskets.

Tara tried to excuse herself, but Michael was so close to tears that she relented and they all rode out together, with the servants and the picnic baskets following them in the little two-wheeled dog cart.

When the boys reached fireplace Number Twelve, they found the picnic baskets placed on a redwood table.

Lis, then eleven, and her father hefted picnic baskets packed by him so efficiently that she nearly tore muscles under the weight.

Too soon they were all rising and the women went to get their coats while the men went out to the cars and made certain that the rugs and picnic baskets were loaded.

They were sitting on her porch, watching everybody straggle down the road with their picnic baskets and coolers, most of them subdued, since no one had a clue why the deputy had sent the Hollywood folks away.

There were other people dotted mercifully here and there in the compartments, their curtains open, their books and newspapers and picnic baskets balanced beside them, their faces turning curiously toward me as I sped past.

There were families laying out blankets and picnic baskets on the grassy lawn farther east where the shade trees began.