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Example sentences for "bread and"

  • He lost his basket of bread and wine, and was quite faint with fear and exhaustion when his feet touched firm ground again.

  • Then he took a basket of bread and wine, and began to climb the mountain.

  • Then he took a basket of bread and wine, and started off.

  • Many times he slipped, and he was much frightened at the noises, and was very glad to get across, although he had lost his basket of bread and wine.

  • In one hand she carried a large tin can, and in the other a thick slice of bread and butter.

  • Phyllis finished the slice of bread and butter in silence, and followed it up by bread and jam.

  • Although they hear and know that we do not say this of bread and wine, because in itself bread is bread, but of such bread and wine as is the body and blood of Christ, and has the words attached to it.

  • But here it is bestowed least; for the way which the world knows for honoring them is to drive them out of the country and to grudge them a piece of bread and, in short, they must be (as says St. Paul 1 Cor.

  • At the present moment he was engaged in handing round a mug of mild liquor, supplied from a barrel in the corner, and cut pieces of bread and cheese.

  • By this time Cainy was nearing the group of harvesters, and was perceived to be carrying a large slice of bread and ham in one hand, from which he took mouthfuls as he ran, the other being wrapped in a bandage.

  • The maltster, after having lain down in his clothes for a few hours, was now sitting beside a three-legged table, breakfasting of bread and bacon.

  • Earl Godwin broke a piece of bread and held it in his hand.

  • FN#25] But Bahram stared at him and replied, "O dog, knoweth the like of me bond of bread and salt?

  • Who knoweth the virtue and worth of bread and salt?

  • And thou hast broken the bond of bread and salt; wherefore the Almighty hath thrown thee into my grasp, and far is thy chance of escape from me.

  • A week in your cells, false brethren, a week of rye-bread and lentils, with double lauds and double matins, may help ye to remembrance of the laws under which ye live.

  • I had hoped," said Alleyne, falling into the humor of the twain, "that a tranchoir of bread and a draught of milk might be attached to it.

  • Did I not see him at Poictiers, when for two days we had not more than a crust of bread and a cup of foul water, yet carrying himself most valiantly.

  • And there the wealthy settle down in the country, and the gray peasants, who nourish themselves on bread and onions, who toil eighteen hours a day, who get no sound sleep by night, and who are clad in blouses.

  • She has her own supper of bread and cheese to hand to Jo, with whom she ventures to interchange a word or so for the first time.

  • Charley is accordingly introduced, and under a heavy fire of eyes, sits down to her basin and a Druidical ruin of bread and butter.

  • With factions, suspicions, want of bread and sugar, it is verily what they call dechire, torn asunder this poor country: France and all that is French.

  • The cry of women, round the Salle de Manege, was heard plaintive: "Du pain et du savon, Bread and Soap.

  • Bread and Equality; Justice on the Traitor, that we may have Bread!

  • It has been betocsined, bestormed; over-flooded by black deluges of Sansculottism; and has heard the shrill cry, Bread and Soap.

  • After the morning meal had been prepared, Mrs. Gaston sat down and ate her bread and butter, tasting a little of the children's meat, and drinking her coffee with a keen relish.

  • Mrs. Gaston then sat down by the table with Henry and Emma, and ate a small portion of bread and molasses.

  • And more than all, why as a poor seamstress, toiling for little more than a crust of bread and a cup of water?

  • I have brought you home some nice bread and molasses," said the mother, in tones meant to soothe and quiet her hungry and impatient little one.

  • Chairs and stools were quickly brought there, and my host introduced his wife and children to me, after which we partook of coffee, bread and cheese, &c.

  • With the exception of a morsel of bread and cheese, I had eaten nothing since the morning; still I could not spare time to make coffee, but at once dismounted, summoned my guide, and commenced my pilgrimage to the smoking mountains.

  • As soon as she had left the room, Philip set down his half-finished basin of bread and milk, and sate long, his face hidden in his folded arms.

  • Another legacy of old Sir Simon Bray was that of a small croft of land, the rent or profits of which were to go towards giving to all who asked for it a manchet of bread and a cup of good beer.

  • A crust of bread and liberty' was much more accordant to Sylvia's nature than plenty of creature comforts and many restraints.

  • I cannot take my children's bread and distribute it to others," replied Mrs. Darlington, with much feeling.

  • When this had boiled, and she had drawn some tea, she placed upon the table a few slices of bread and a piece of cheese, which she took from a basket that she had borne on her arm.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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