public crib
Example Sentences
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Bridger's share of the spoils—the consulship at Ratona—was little more than a prune—a dried prune from the boarding-house department of the public crib.
From Whirligigs by O. Henry
It was not long before grain was distributed free to all applicants; and a considerable portion of the population of the capital were living in vicious indolence and feeding at the public crib.
From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Philip Van Ness Myers
It sends its officers round every year to gather in the harvest for the public crib, and no widow who owns a piece of land two feet square ever escapes this reckoning.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A taste of public life is fatal to most men, and the desire to feed from the public crib goes right to the bone.
From The Statesmen Snowbound by Robert Fitzgerald
In the United States such men are described as "feeding at the public crib."
From The History of Cuba, vol. 4 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
