Other villagers brought more of the flat bread, some stuffed with pickled greens or mushrooms culled from the Wood; and one family brought two jugs of home brewed spirits. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“There’s corned beef so you can make sandwiches for lunch,” Aunty Uju had said, as though those words were perfectly normal and did not require a humorous preamble about how Americans ate bread for lunch. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She put some oatmeal on the stove, strained the coffee, and toasted the bread. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fruit, knives on the edges of tables, fish, bread, lobsters, flowers, and, of course, sneakers. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I knew and they knew he was saying we got to remember which side our bread is buttered on down at the store, and who is buttering it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I broke some bread into a bowl, poured milk mixed with sagebrush tea over it, and fed her tiny bits. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Hunger knotted my stomach, and a single shim’s worth of stale bread wasn’t going to help much. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The former was quite good, bacon and potato soup with fresh bread and butter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“My mother asked me to pick up a loaf of bread,” I said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I was in the middle of sipping sugary coffee and chewing delicious bread, as fluffy as the pillow I’d slept on, when someone knocked on the door. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down at the table to eat, and my mother brought out a small tureen of tomato soup, a loaf of bread, and a wedge of cheese. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

A short time later, a serving girl brought a platter of cheese and bread and olives, with a flagon of cold water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It took some convincing to explain my mission, but I spoke polite and firm and held out the bread pudding, and the children snuck out in their nightclothes and just about dove into the bowl. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am sorry! I was so pleased to find you awake at last. I will go now, but you must drink this water and eat some bread. Shall I bring meat?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Cutting off a nice thick slab of salt pork, I roasted it, and with a piece of cold com bread made a sandwich. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were pies and corn bread and chicken livers and ham and dandelion greens and grits. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She cuts bread and waves the knife at me and makes sandwiches of brawn and cold potatoes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Kehaar went on pecking at the broken pieces of stale bread. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biting carefully on aching teeth, he ate the bread and cheese and baloney she had left by the bed, and drank some of the milk, now warm. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they had the fry bread on this fancy plate and so I ate it with this fancy fork and knife. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Benny thrust a bag overflowing with various sweet breads and Christmas cookies at Isa. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I shrieked, pushing the tray of sweet bread off the table. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

My body’s thinner than it’s ever been and my battle against hunger is so fierce that sometimes the animal part of me gives in to the temptation of buttered bread or roasted meat. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“We need to keep this angel warm. Put her in one of the bread pans. Pad it with a blanket first. Then set it on the oven door.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

As her mother went to get the bread, he winked at Stella. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

So she keeps the marchers' glasses filled, adds more corn bread and potato salad to their plates, stands in the kitchen ready to slice lemon pound cake into generous pieces. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The soup and sleep and bread had done me good. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo and Sam drank a little water and ate some bread and dried fruit, but Gollum at once curled up and went to sleep. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Master and Madam both filled up on the onion pie and hardly touched the fresh-baked bread. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day I left the bread and picked up a little black-and-white glass dog no bigger than my thumbnail. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t of been much trouble for Mama; all Grandpa ever wanted in the morning was four cups of coffee and some yeast bread, toasted hard and dipped in boiling water and then buttered. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Kate heard about it from Ethel, and she confronted him in the kitchen where he was kneading bread, his hairy big arms floured to the elbows and his hands yeast bleached. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But large choruses, soloists and orchestra were bread and butter to Bach in his Passions, Handel in his oratorios, Mozart in his Requiem and Haydn in his grand choral works. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Amazing, to have a piece of bread to share with birds. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Three long, thin loaves of bread appeared on the sill, plus a misshapen lump of burned dough. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Hot peppers and friedfish, she decided, sniffing down the hall, and bread fresh from Umma's oven. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ms. Clark sat behind the front desk computer, her lunch spread out, tuna on white bread with a bag of Utz crab chips. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I see the loaves of bread on the counter in the pale, snowy morning light. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had a sack of bread dangling from his right hand and a big wheel of cheese under his left arm. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The pantry contained canned fruits and vegetables, unbroken jars of preserves, bread, oatmeal, cream of wheat, crackers, tuna, and lots of other stuff. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

An invisible humming engine shone a small spotlight onto one corner of her desk, to the upper right of the geometry text, and the triangles they were studying all looked like bread. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It is because Nigeria is not a nation of sandwich-eating people and his last oga did not eat bread in the afternoon. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I asked for some more bread in French for no reason. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He looks over at Leo, who has abandoned his project with the TV and is now happily eating a slice of cheesy bread. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Emily holds out her sandwich in my direction, and I peer at the meat squished inside the bread. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

A fat and happy army, roasting meat and fresh bread, telling stories in the dark. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open the fridge to find bottles of soda and ketchup and hot sauce and mayonnaise and bread and eggs and too many plastic containers. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At that moment, Carrie, the mute, slipped me bread and a chunk of ham. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He finished his meat and wiped up the gravy with a piece of bread. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They’d been huddled in their homes for four days, hoping they wouldn't run out of milk or bread or need a prescription filled. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He kept his job at the bakery and hired two young men to work the cart during the hours he was delivering bread. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

When I passed the baker's, the smell of fresh bread was so overwhelming I felt dizzy. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Dad shoveled in a spoonful of beans and corn bread. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A bread loaf of a woman wearing a small hat began to hum. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

For lunch there was a cheese sandwich, on brown bread, a glass of milk, celery sticks, canned pears. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all sit back down, and she serves us each a bowl of warmed bread pudding with ice cream. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

A man with a tray of round flat breads stacked sky-high grinned at Liyana through the car window when their eyes met. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He went on chewing and staring ahead, and when Mariam spoke to him he looked at her without seeing her face and put another piece of bread into his mouth. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Uncle Pa gets me a bottle of lemonade and Dad gives me a piece of bread and I don’t feel hungry anymore. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Half a loaf of bread might have saved him, if he could even eat it. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The good white bread of breakfast; the rolls dripping with yellow butter that I had slipped into my pocket so often to be munched later in my room with wild blackberry jam from home. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rice was judged either too greasy or too dry, the bread declared too doughy or too crispy. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

My father had a present for me: a half ration of bread, bartered for something he had found at the depot, a piece of rubber that could be used to repair a shoe. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t it be lovely to have another loaf of bread and a jar of strawberry jam or any kind of jam. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

—School When I think about school, I feel like I got a mouth full of dry bread and I can’t swallow. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took two more breaths and started thinking about the little hen that baked the bread. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I nibble on the bread and a soft cheese wedge and watch my movie, marveling over the fact that I actually picked an Indian movie over all the American choices. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Luke, we're just trying to protect you. How about a big slice of your bread? There’s cold beef and canned beans, too.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

No one was there, but the table was already laden with fresh fruit and warm bread. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Great-uncle Edisto always cooked his famous corn bread and good black snap beans and corn on the cob, if it was summer. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Near nightfall, they shared the last of the corn bread and ventured to the river to gather some water. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He runs into the house, gets a loaf of army bread and holds it up. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The merchant’s attempts to convince Siddhartha that he was eating his, Kamaswami’s, bread were also in vain. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have enough daily bread, so I won’t waste time on that. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, as usual, Neeley let his coffee stand black and ate his condensed milk spread on bread. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I brushed off the lice, tore the bread in half, and gave half to the other boy. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Waiting for her on the table was hot-water corn bread smeared with the apple preserves. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I tear off a section of the buttery warm bread, dip it in the chutney, and stuff my mouth while gesturing for Kareem to do the same. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I put the bowl of bread pudding into a basket, tied on my cloak, and wound up my hands in rags to keep the frost from biting. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I need is a blanket, a few spoons of tea and sugar and a few cuts of bread to keep me going. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Castleman wisely stepped into the back room, where her husband was twisting and kneading bread, leaving her son alone with his thoughts. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The bread we had brought from Buna had been devoured long since. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure removes her knapsack and reaches inside and tears off a hunk of bread. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My mother, who for some reason could not get a permit to work in Johannesburg, could not even afford to buy tea and brown bread. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bring me bread, fruit, and whatever meat you have ready in the back,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My bread and butter comes from this town, and Maycomb’s given me a good living. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

If they took a step, Their hooves would Bury the ant, Little pilgrim of crust And fallen bread. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes food, a cake or pie or loaf of bread baked by Rita, or a jar of jelly, made from the mint leaves that grow in her garden. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Ellison always leaves a little loaf of banana bread or a cinnamon roll, and Dad saves it to eat with his lunch. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They might have smoked in front of him, or sipped from their canteens, or eaten bread and let the crumbs drop carelessly on his body. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He said nothing, and went on chewing the bread, his temples working, the vein on his forehead, full and angry. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Almost every man has had his bread gnawed. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

For breakfast Mario had brought a crust of bread, a lump of sugar, and a cold Brussels sprout. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old couple had welcomed Mary into their little vine-sheltered farmhouse, had plied her with wine and cheese and bread and olives, and now didn’t want to let her go. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The bread, dense and moist, tastes like Ireland. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I was discouraged to note that I was grubby again already and barking for white bread. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A typical meal consisted of raw salt pork, bread, and soup, and sometimes molasses. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I thank her and try to force down the bread and tea. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom and Eb squirmed uncomfortably; Wilse Graham crumbled a piece of bread. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Breakfast, which usually consisted of porridge, cocoa or tea, bread, butter, and jam, was served at nine in the morning. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Can I make you some tea? Some bread?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In the center was a lonely piece of bread, with a small flower next to it. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She had busied herself with setting pans of oatmeal and oven bread ready for the next morning’s breakfast. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Her weakened body rejects even the tiniest crumb of bread and drop of water. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She said that in France the people carried home loaves of bread without having them wrapped up. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I laughed at the running lady and shouted, “Dirty bread lady!” and sped away. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

What he longed for above all was a piece of bread. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When the waitress brings out a basket of bread, we just stare at each other confused until we see the couple next to us dip their bread in olive oil. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mattie’s was a combination bar and grocery, the grocery aspect limited to a sparse selection of goods, soft drinks, bread, and canned foods for the most part. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s hungry and wonders if there’s any chance he could go to The Abbot’s for a bit of bread and stay there for the night instead of going all the way to Laman Griffin’s. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Plus, I hiked alone to get our Sunday bread because Lolo said he was feeling too tired, and then I watched the twins while Tía worked the Sunday madhouse at El Caribe. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He trots alongside a freight car and clambers aboard, holding his bread. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The lightness quickly fell like my last batch of bread dough when I reached my house. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He continued, “Cannot read in the Evenings—fatness & idleness—Anxiety & responsibility—less money for books &c if many children forced to gain one’s bread.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papi recites the Hebrew blessing and then he tears a piece of bread for each of us and says, “We are lucky to live in a free country and have this bread to eat.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Madge, so pleasant, and the smell of Ma’s good bread rising. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Propped against the rock, wrapped in her sleeping bag, she ate some of the rough bread and the goat’s cheese, and then fell deeply asleep. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There we find a large clay pot filled with hominy and venison stew, fish on the grill and bread baking in the hot ashes on the ground. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

A while before, African prisoners had begun to receive bread in the morning, but that made little difference. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was enough food to fill them, and they kept back some bread and milk for breakfast. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

One with thick slices of bread and actual meat. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There were shortages of food everywhere, and the guards’ food was not much better than ours, but at least their vegetables were clean and not rotten, and their bread was not made with sawdust.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I drew my hands back, coming away with the last morsel of my bread. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After your mama cooks this,” he said, “tell her to take the marrow out, spread it on a piece of bread with pepper, salt, and make a nice samwish for you.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ate sweet bread and seg- ments of orange and ripe cherries, and drank a light, warm tea that invigorated her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eliza and I shared a loaf of bread at the kitchen table. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were plates of roast beef, baked potatoes, buttered carrots, fresh bread, and a whole bunch of other foods I hadn’t had in a long time. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A loaf of bread sailed into the dirt. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

His mom mixed ground beef, spices, and bread crumbs for the meatballs. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fry bread is a rumpled, golden-brown disk, served on a paper plate. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Chris says Harry bakes the best rye bread he ever ate.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

A round loaf of bread sat on the table, a mottled mixture of white, black, brown, and orange. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

There was bread, cheese, an orange, and a pot of coffee on the table. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Edel made us all pack a tiny satchel full of stolen bread and cheese from the kitchen. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When Luke went down to supper, he saw that Mother had set his two loaves of bread out on the china plate she used for holidays and special occasions. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

They ate the fish and finished the milk and bread. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He uses a long-handled spatula to shift and retrieve the bread. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t see why you can’t wear your normal clothes to take out the trash,” Mama said, pouring the bread batter into two greased loaf pans. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I held my breath because of the last special treat at the Daughertys’, but it didn’t help, because when Mrs. Russell came back, she came back with a loaf of banana bread. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When they had just bread and potatoes too many times at home, Francie’s thoughts went to dripping sour pickles. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I give him a slice of bread, the rest of the butter, and a cup of water. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We sit at the long, empty banquet table and eat cheese and bread. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mama couldn’t let that go on; that was our bread corn. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to this story, if a Catholic priest dressed in his sacred garments solemnly said the right words at the right moment, mundane bread and wine turned into God’s flesh and blood. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

You never baked bread, he wrote, and we were still joking. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The little girl howled steadily, holding the bread. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's like the bread. How I never seem to get over owing you for that," I say. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It took me a week to learn the difference between a salad plate, a bread plate and a dessert plate. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She writes about the huge tomatoes and the cheap bread. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a Sunday morning, and I was running to the bodega to get some bread, and when I came out the house, Noodles was sitting on my stoop. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The bread order had come up two rolls short. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

They tear the bread into tiny pieces and roll them between their fingers into fine crumbs, tossing them to the peeping birds. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She quickly slid the bread and money onto the desk and snapped the curtains shut. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t have it when I was your age. The first time I had bread and jam wasn’t until I was in college.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

His are as solid and warm as those loaves of bread. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Pilate might bake hot bread and each one of them would eat it with butter whenever she felt like it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would stand talking on the streets and hit the bread on a lamp post. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The young white guys who delivered the bread and orange juice knew the Panthers. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Central Europeans became especially hooked on it; by the nineteenth century, maize was the daily bread of Serbia, Rumania, and Moldavia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I give him bread and tea, and he tells Helena stories until she falls asleep again. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The smell from the dining hall floats over my nose, sweet and yeasty: baking bread. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There was much more than she'd asked for: hot bread, butter and honey and blackberry preserves, a rasher of bacon and a soft- boiled egg, a wedge of cheese, a pot of mint tea. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Soon, pieces of bread were falling into the wagons from all sides. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rita threw a chunk of bread from her backpack at the animal. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Will you give me a piece of bread? for I am very hungry.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

We meet, and he gives me my supper, my pay: bread or an apple, cabbages, turnips — sometimes there’s sausages on a good day. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I need to know where I can find bread!” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Coraline went to the freezer and took out the spare loaf of frozen bread in the bottom compartment. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I run in the living room and look at the couch and the TV and the bread on the rug. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A sack of pita bread lay scattered on the ground. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

On our way out, Eliza accepted a basket of dry bread from the woman who ran the boarding house. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group can build automobiles quicker and better than one man, and bread from a huge factory is cheaper and more uniform. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at the exact same price. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Forrest said Imogen could have been abducted from outside the apartment, but the police officers reminded him about the bread box. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In order to turn him away from his thoughts I asked him for a piece of bread. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We took lunch to Papa, cheese and bread and lemonade. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

He filled his mouth with bread and herring. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing that could smell better would be when the baking was done and there was fresh bread to tear into. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I’m a man now so I light the fire early on Saturday morning and make my own tea and fried bread. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You get the bread tonight,” a prisoner standing by him said quietly. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Too tired to mix the saffron-colored powder into the hard cake of oleo, she simply smeared the white stuff on the bread and sprinkled the sugar over it. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Rab had been eating bread and cheese all through their first meeting—and that was long ago. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dara Lynn’s dipping bread in her glass of cold tea, the way she likes, and Becky pushes her beans up over the edge of her plate in her rush to get ’em down. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Romans always wanted bread and circuses—food and entertainment! As we destroy their city, I will offer them both. Behold, a sample!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But there’s no money in the house, not even for bread in the morning. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The truck driver started throwing bread to him which he piled up on the counter. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michael tells her the dog can have his bread. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

An Orc stooped over him, and flung him some bread and a strip of raw dried flesh. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I ate watery broth and week-old bread once a night and passed out on a wooden pallet with no mattresses or pillows or blankets. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Two pennies was the same as a loaf of bread, and I couldn’t count all the times that I had been hungry in the last year. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I saw them pull out the cup and the matches and half a piece of bread. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And just as I’ve come to this conclusion, a parachute lands next to us with a fresh loaf of bread. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The aloe branch and loaf of bread that had been hanging over the door since the days of the founding were replaced by a niche with the Sacred Heart of Jesus. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“It means I’m nervous. Real nervous. I need the bread.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was explaining to me how the bread baked on these heated pebbles when the nasal call of the muezzin wafted through the air from the mosque. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad poured me a drink and I put one of the bread pieces in my mouth, chasing it with a sip of lemonade. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The Bay Area has a reputation for its sourdough bread, so I figured the air outside my house would be an excellent hunting ground for wild yeast. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Ash sat down across from her and put the bread and cheese between them, and the huntress began to slice the apple as she spoke. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel sorry for the rich people who will get up in the morning and go to the door and find their bread missing but I can’t let myself starve to death. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, before morning the remainder of the bread on the floor has been carried off. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Sloan ate the last of his soup and bread and leaned back with a sigh. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin tossed bread crumbs into the pool. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Thursday, I open my lunch and take out a PB&J on stale wheat bread. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

A basket of mossy bread in the center of the table was crawling with brown mice. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She arranged the milk bottles around the well’s edge, picked up the fish, then checked on the bread in its bowl at the other end of the cellar. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Like babies, even homely ones, each a blessing, each one bom with—as Mama used to say—its loaf of bread under its arm. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sits at the table and Aunt Aggie gives him his supper, which is fried bread and ham and sliced tomatoes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The innkeeper ducked into the back room and emerged a few minutes later carrying a tray loaded with hot bread and steaming bowls of stew. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Kaori pulls out a loaf of bread and some cold cuts to make sandwiches. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain saw a vast pot of stewed chicken, a pot of hot tea, a disappearing loaf of battered bread, some pickles. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

No bread and fish, but he noticed that his bit of athlete’s foot had gone away; that he thought more clearly; that he could will certain foods to appear in the icebox. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lived on snow; it took the place of bread. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ducked his head and set to work cutting six thick, even slices of bread while Vola slapped a chunk of butter into an iron skillet and snapped on a flame beneath it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

With the bread still locked in my hands, I fall asleep at once. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

So when they ran us through the chow line for a bowl of watery onion soup and stale bread, it was a disappointment. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Serena brings out a plate of carrot cake and banana bread. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“We are each entitled to three hundred grams of bread for our work,” explained Jonas. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t figure out why they were feeding us more than bread. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

His mother handed him a piece of bread. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We eat Portuguese sweet bread and runny cheeses in small wooden boxes. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Under the lid Jon discovered three duck’s eggs fried in drippings, a strip of bacon, two sausages, a blood pudding, and half a loaf ? of bread still warm from the oven. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He pushed his pannikin aside, took up his hunk of bread in one delicate hand and his cheese in the other, and leaned across the table so as to be able to speak without shouting. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Yvonne chopped the bread into chunks and slices, then distributed them among us. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But within our boundaries we, too, drew a line that included our right to bread regardless of the indignities or degradations involved in getting it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last of all, I take the lard bread from my pocket and feed it to Shiloh in little pieces, letting him lick my fingers after every bite. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Totally. I like those bread bowls at Panera, too. With the soup inside a scooped-out loaf of bread? I like any bowl you can eat.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Go ahead and eat the bread—but work, and maybe someday we’ll have butter to go with it.’ Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Still some left,” he called through a mouthful of bread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I hated to give up the delicious soup, but the bread sat better with me, and I slowly began to get stronger. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

While he was tearing the filling of the second sandwich from the bread with his teeth, Miss Trixie came in, her green celluloid visor facing the rear. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the price of bread goes up 6 percent, that’s no reason to suspect the price of yachts will go up by 6 percent as well. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a breaded, fried, patty-like thing lying in the middle of each plate. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The men spread the jam on the bread and drank their wine, discussing politics and war and armies over the stacks of money on my master’s desk. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the old man quietly wept, the boy was yelling: “If you don’t stop cry ing instantly, I will no longer bring you bread. Understood?” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after five P.M. we had another meal, consisting of a small mug of coffee, and half-a-slice of brown bread. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Intent on preparing our backpacks, on baking breads and cakes, we no longer thought about anything. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too hungry to worry about tomorrow, I bought a thick slice of cheese and a warm sausage, then a whole loaf of fresh bread and a warm apple tart. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The bland bread was fluffy, tender, and dissolved on his tongue like cotton candy. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I have a hunger for some garlic bread,” Lee said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jack had to resist grabbing a loaf of freshly baked bread. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Christmas at home had meant eating Momma’s bread pudding with maple syrup and nutmeg, and reading the Gospel of Matthew out loud whilst Ruth played in Momma’s lap. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watched as she boiled two potatoes and gnawed on a stump of bread. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I walked, into the kitchen to find Mama slicing a loaf of bread. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

There she is with a plate of bread and jam and two cups of tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

On Sundays the Jackboots came with their girlfriends to pinch their noses and take pictures and toss pieces of bread to us pigeons. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Have a cup o’ tay an’ a bit o’ bread.You need it, God help us.You look like one left over from the Famine itself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mohammad brings eggs and bread and cheese, and a mug of hot sweet tea. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

One was the color of toasted bread and the other was the color of coal. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“He has visited our fine establishment several times. Indeed, it has been my honor to break bread with him.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pearl glanced at the shelves above the stove and pushed a box under them; she took down bread, cheeses, dried fruits, meats, and a bag of oats and sugar. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he made bread in it a bunch of times, all in one week, like just to prove that he was actually gonna use this thing. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He dunks the bread in the runny yolks and gobbles it down. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She cut two thin slices and then, from a plastic container, she took some margarine and spread it on the bread. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can’t be right. I need a change, or something.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She’s making bread, throwing the loaves for the final brief kneading and then the shaping. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the stream bank she sets out their drear picnic, which is only dense, crumbling bread daubed with crushed peanuts and slices of bitter plantain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

From my pocket I tear my weapon—a plastic bag of stale bread I thought to bring at the last minute—and hurl pieces at the dogs like hand grenades. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, the smells changed hour by hour—an ever-changing perfume of roast meats, leeks and onions, fresh-baked bread. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It tasted good, like cake, with a sweetish and smooth flavor he had never thought bread could have. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I did not break the habit of stealing and hoarding bread until my faith that food would be forthcoming at each meal had been somewhat established. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never gotten angry at a bread lady before. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Even Beetle shared in the sudden blooming of bread and didn’t care to ask why until, her stomach finally full, she found her mind empty and casting about for something to figure out. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chicken, carrots, and sweet potatoes, bread pudding with homemade vanilla ice cream and homemade chocolate sauce. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

While my mouth is stuffed with bologna and bread, Caleb comes over and starts telling me how good I look. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He laid trenchers of bread before them and filled them with chunks of browned meat off a skewer, dripping with hot juice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She was halfway through her meal, shoveling meat and bread down her throat, when the dining room door opened. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I shut my windows, and as I was coming back I glanced at the mirror and saw a corner of my table with my alcohol lamp next to some pieces of bread. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Now Zippernose was nibbling like a rat on a slice of bread. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made me sit down on the frayed silk of her eighteenth century settee while she made me a little supper, with bread and honey and coffee, and tiny yellow apples, and a boiled egg. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

There is the warm, yeasty smell of fresh bread and roasted chicken. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

‘They have left us fruit and drink, and bread,’ said Pippin. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She lets us sit on the floor around the fire where we eat the fried bread and sip at the scalding sweet tea in jamjars. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, she passed him a cutting board with a loaf of bread and a knife on it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I pull myself together enough so that when Plutarch and Fulvia enter, I have a mouthful of bread and cabbage. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

As I wiped up the last of my egg with the bread, Lady Seymour entered, followed by her cat. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hold the piece of bread or sausage right under the nose of the Russian till he grows pale with greed and his eyes bulge and then he will give anything for it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or I would help Rita make the bread, sinking my hands into that soft resistant warmth which is so much like flesh. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grownups were wary but willing to sell some bread and cheese and fruit for one of Lyra’s gold coins. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I snapped the latches closed and rushed out of the room, the curtains blowing, flapping over the loaf of fresh bread still sitting on my desk. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The day I begged bread from the city officials was the day that showed me I was not alone in my loneliness, society had cast millions of others with me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like a corn- bread batter to be stirred some so everything is mixed but not too smooth with all the lumps gone. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat up carefully and saw a fire burning not far away, where Lyra was trying to toast some bread on a forked stick. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve eaten crusts of bread before, but they were always served with love. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

For me, Gay put out slices of cheddar cheese and added some Wonder bread to the breadbasket. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

At last he stood up, waddled clumsily across the cell, dug down into the pocket of his overalls, and, with an abashed air, held out a grimy piece of bread to the skull-faced man. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was an odd mix, but there was some sausage, some bread, and some apples. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One time he borrowed my mother’s car to go to the shop for milk and bread. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I instead notice a food vendor with signs that say they have traditional Native American fry bread. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

To my amazement and to the amazement of the other prisoners watching us, Moonface cut a hunk off the loaf with his knife and tossed the bread to me. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

A whole sack of bread, just for us! Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew pointed to the bread bag on the floor. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

El Tirindaro offers everyone a piece of bread and a soda. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He strutted to the board like he was the coolest thing since sliced bread and wrote it for the class. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Matthew pointed to the bread bag on the floor. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Farther inside Czechoslovakia, some of the villagers hung out of their windows to throw whatever they had to us—crusts of bread, half-eaten apples, raw potatoes. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The steam from one smelled like red chili stew; the other was full of oven bread and pieces of fried bread. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“How many cakes? The price of sugar is still high. How about apple bread instead? That’s cheaper to make.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pours a fresh heap of bread crumbs on the plate, their color and texture reminding her of sand on a beach. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the sandwiches she had added slices of cranberry sauce as well as bread stuffing. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we got hold of some hamburger, it came to the table more bread than meat. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no more bread, there’s no more milk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boy’s parents and the old man bought him toys, bought him everything—new diapers, new plastic pants—not homemade diapers, not bread bags. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Ash brought food for them, and they would spread out their cloaks in a sheltered spot in the Wood and eat bread and cold meat and cheese. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s like a spongy sourdough bread,” Mom said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Miss Celia got it, called Space Command. A box bout half the size of a bread loaf.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I was almost glad to be sick if it meant her bread and soup. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

A full sack of bread was a feast as far as we were concerned. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning, Dad plunked bread slices in the old toaster that sat on the counter and pushed the mechanism down and then went to the stove to pour coffee. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As she peered out into the dark morning and chewed on her bread, she thought about her dream. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Nanny beamed all out with gladness and made her come up to the bread board so she could kiss her. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

On the bread was riding a fat rat. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He likes banana bread and drives a station wagon. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Hawkers descended on our car, pushing boiled eggs, roasted cashew nuts, bottled water, bread, okpa, agidi into every window of the car, chanting: “Buy from me, oh, I will sell well to you.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A squire brought meat and bread to the two guarding the storehouse, and later two more men joined them and they all passed a skin of wine from hand to hand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And she reached into the bowl and pulled out the lump of rising bread dough and put it on her head. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday morning, their grandmother started another batch of bread, then told them to take baths and put on fresh shorts and shirts. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a Depression-era teenager accustomed to breakfasting on stale bread and milk, and who had eaten in a restaurant only twice in his life, the Manhattan was paradise. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Percy swung behind a column, grabbed a garbage bag full of Wonder bread, and threw it at the monster. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then Mr. Allen offered Mrs. Chatham some coffee and banana bread, but she said, “No thanks, I really must be going now.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They could bring us bread. Store our bags in their room.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Gerald and Lydia think nothing, in the mornings, when he and Maxine join them downstairs in the kitchen, their hair uncombed, seeking bowls of cafe au lait and toasted slices of French bread and jam. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bread was hard and tasteless and had to serve as breakfast as well. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of the native men sees me eyeing the bread, and he laughs. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He nods and sets down his bread, stands up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I glance at her letter still sitting on the table in the bread crumbs, and he picks it up. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, green beans with almonds, orange salad, corn bread and cream of asparagus soup. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made his mother a sandwich, peeling the last thin pieces of turkey out of the package and pressing them between twin slices of white bread. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I like 100 percent whole grain wheat bread, thin sliced. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He wipes the blade clean on his shirttail and slices the bread. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I still have to live on bread & milk but am going about in the rain today and getting better.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Would I boil a potato for her, mash it up with a lump of lard, give her a cut of bread, bring her a drop of water to go with the whiskey? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And as far as the art is concerned, she’s learning how to pose better every day, and doesn’t ask for much: she’s fine with nothing but bread and coffee, as Vincent is. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Peggy placed a plate, knife, fork, spoon, sugar, cream, and bread before him; then she dished up the bacon and eggs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Prim makes us each eat some stew and bread. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They comment on each other’s dishes, trading tastes on their bread plates. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have the heart to cut bread and spread it with margarine. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saved the bread for him in my pocket. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rachel moved nervously to the table and began to wrap the leftover com bread in a clean linen napkin. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Farid bit into the bread he had been keeping for the marten. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

His coat smelled just like Scipio’s - a mixture of fresh-cut grass and warm bread. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He tells her the bread will only go stale. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She rode past the library and up the hill to the corner store where Mom sometimes sent her to pick up milk or a loaf of bread. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She stood there with the sunlight in her hair, her white skirt fluttering around her legs, a basket of grapes and fresh-baked bread tucked under one arm. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He mopped at his stew with a chunk of bread. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We ran through breads, breads/fancy, pies/fruit, and pies/otherwise, and then he began on the handiworks. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When we got back to the barracks, we were fed the thickest, richest soup I had eaten in six years, and big pieces of fresh bread, hot from the oven! Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The goofy grin dropped off his face and he stopped throwing bread crusts out to the ducks gathered in the water. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

As soon as Emilika left, she sat down on the bed, arms crossed, refusing to come to the table for the bread and butter I’d cut. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Her white hair shudders like an angry cloud as she smears peanut butter onto the bread, all the while mumbling to herself. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

I watched in astonishment as she liberally spread butter over the bread. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

With Nan’s arm over my shoulder we lumbered along, and I felt like I was leaving a bread crumb trail of my heart the whole way back. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Philadelphia was long past worrying about where children ate their bread, and Eliza needed to sleep. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys ate a little bread while Eddie installed the new carburetor. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pauses his bread before it gets to his mouth. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

They even tried a piece of bread shaped like the wafer with bread and jam and it was no use. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We have actual tickets, and food in our satchel—cold meat and bread. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Jonathan, having bolted his bread to satisfy his immediate hunger, now was impatient to leave the house and get back to the boy. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I ate a couple of slices of bread and had a cup of coffee from the Thermos flask. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bread was for the birds; the food was for a poor family in our neighborhood. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Malachy says he’s hungry and she gives him a piece of bread and cheese to keep him going. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Every day I combed the sidewalks and alleys looking for a crust of bread or anything else edible in the attempt to combat my constant hunger. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She had started putting bread crusts in a bowl on the kitchen windowsill. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Soon they were all seated, and their hands picked up the meat and bread. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I covered the chicken slices with caviar thickly as if I were spreading peanut butter on a piece of bread. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

At first I think it might be a trick of the light, but I notice it again when we pass by a bakery and admire the loaves of bread. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He felt a cold, hard lump in his stomach that wasn't the bread. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Crumbs from the loaf of bread were before him. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

They won’t eat the bread and goody till I kill the taste of the sour milk with sugar. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She ate sharp cheese and dark bread for breakfast, and liked chocolate with hazelnuts, and salty black licorice—nothing like the Hershey's Kisses and Starburst sweets I had grown up with. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

This isn’t like when we broke up because she likes her peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches on wheat bread, when everybody knows white bread is the only bread for a PBJ. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I’ll also give you a ration of bread with some margarine . . .” He liked my shoes; I would not let him have them. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“On top of everything else you let those deliverymen carrying bread and beer tromp all over the store?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivan managed to grab some rye bread and fried fish for her, and some pirozhki for himself. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then she takes the bread and her cane and starts down the ladder and pulls the trapdoor shut. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Fish nibbled bread from Matt’s fingers, and coyotes darted forward to gobble down chunks of his sandwiches. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were shelves upon the walls where loaves of bread and trenchers lay. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We have a guest to feed. Bring beer and bread and sister’s stew.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mother looked down at the bread and the wilted flower. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Ma could spot one of my brown hairs in a basket of rye bread. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm making the morning bread," Hot Pie complained. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“But how will we survive without bread?” asked Mrs. Rimas. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Desdemona packed his Greek lunch of feta, olives, and bread in a new American container: a brown paper bag. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I think about all the strangeness of his being here, sleeping in homespun sheets, wearing the same clothes for days on end, eating bread and cheese, and not complaining about any of it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Dinner was at a big dining room table that was generously covered in platters of meat, bowls of mashed potatoes and corn on the cob, a teetering plate of bread, and a tub of butter. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to get more than bread. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then she gave Psyche a crust of bread and bade her sleep on the ground while she herself went off to her soft, fragrant couch. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gym smelled like rain and stale bread and what she imagined a boys locker room might smell like. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Not four feet away, sitting cross-legged before his breads, was a man. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was closed, too, so I went to ask for some peanut butter and bread while Henry made himself a cup of tea. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And though she never ate what they served, except for a few slices of bread and a goblet of water, she always thanked them; she was always grateful for the questions. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I thought of the loaf of bread I had left on my windowsill, still warm and swollen from the oven. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

There was slightly better food—at midday, a bowl of real soup, perhaps a slice of vegetable, and at the end of the night shift, bread with oleo. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Gabriel snorting out bread, freeing me to laugh. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“I’m almost done with this part. The kneading. If you don’t knead it, your bread will be flat and tough.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I stood at the bar and drank a glass of coffee and ate a piece of bread. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

‘I used to sop bread down in the drops our Dad left. I like to lick salt out my hand while I drink. This is the second bottle to myself I’ve ever had.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tote a little corn bread for ’em too. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she sells her goat cheeses at the Hob, she puts two of them aside for him and he gives her a generous amount of bread in return. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I once heard her whisper to Izzy that I had left bread crumbs in her porcelain sink. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I took up the two packages and gave the bread to the little girl, the woman all iron-gray behind the counter, watching us with cold certitude. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched him eat the heel of his bread. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Today it was three brown eggs boiled hard, with fried bread and ham steak and a bowl of wrinkled plums. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He makes a pot of coffee, toasts some bread to eat with butter and jam. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bessie mopped up the fat with a crust of bread as she listened to the talk of evening plans. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Was that loaf of bread still there, sitting on my desk? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I devoured it, dipping the steaming bread in the remains to sop up every trace. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She takes an armful of fruits and breads and puts them in the bag, then another armful of dried meats. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She hit upon the mystery of the sudden abundance of bread. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the strawberries were sweet without sugar, and although it seemed weird to eat it plain, the Smokies’ bread had its own flavor without anything added. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When we go home Mam makes tea and bread and jam or mashed potatoes with butter and salt. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She would send me out to buy groceries, and I wouldn’t come right home because I’d be using the change from the milk and bread to play arcade games at thè supermarket. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But tonight, all I can do is strap myself in and take tiny bites of the bread. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mama was looking down; her hands were placed on her belly, to hold the wrapper from untying itself or to keep her bread and tea breakfast down. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bob the seagull had gotten a little too demanding about his bread, so on Friday, Emily went back to spending her lunch in the library. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As the sun dips low in the sky, Taryn and I unpack our baskets from home, which contain bread, butter, cheese, and plums. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I was bringing sandwiches made of apple butter on bread ends to school for lunch. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no bread for them to eat, no seed. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Jeff had popped back into the kitchen and came back with a tray of corn bread. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After she cut me two slices of cold veal and a thick piece of fresh corn bread, Eliza started to make gingerbread, one of her specialties. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I poured off some hot water into the bread pan, leaned the washboard inside, cut off a hunk of soap, and began to rub. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She gets out bread and some orange fruit I ain’t never seen before and then some red-colored drink that tastes of berries and sugar. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

When I did not have any lunch money and we ran out of bread last week, Amanda let me borrow some money. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

One of the helpers, a stout Italian woman named Connie, cut up bread and tomatoes and brought containers of chicken salad, hummus, and tabouli. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would probably have success, I thought, glancing at the butt of bread. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have no idea how to make bread.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

We got our breakfast: white bread and hot chocolate for me, brown bread with butter on it and coffee for Richard. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She nodded her head rapidly, looking at me, gnawing into the damp halfmoon of the bread. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of wine was ripe and blended into the more embracing warmth of new-baked bread. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturdays, when Ma made the bread, they each had a little piece of dough to make into a little loaf. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting in the living room eating a piece of Moms’s homemade bread with butter and sugar when Diego comes strutting through the front door. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Real, homemade bread, not the mass-produced Subway kind. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We sat down to a feast of the ham, huge plates of fried potatoes, ham gravy, hot com bread, fresh butter, and wild bee honey. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A half gallon of milk, a loaf of bread, a dozen eggs, two cans of jack mackerel, a small bag of apples, and some popcorn. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Russian troops could see from their appearance what they had been through and were kind to them, but they had only a little bread to give them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment in time, all that mattered to me was my daily bowl of soup, my crust of stale bread. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody made corn bread as good as Mama. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“They didn’t have bread or anything substantial,” explained Mother as she divided the treasure amongst everyone. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She brought her own bowl to the table, too, and then a loaf of bread on a cutting board and a dish of creamery butter and spoons. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They walked to the edge of the school yard, and then stood outside in the clear air, in the sun, breathing the fragrance of fresh wet snow and new bread, crusty and warm. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

There are large wooden bowls of steaming beans, peas and squash, platters of roasted fish and venison, baskets of bread and fruit. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Something dropped from the ceiling and landed at Percy’s feet: a loaf of sandwich bread in a white plastic wrapper with red and yellow dots. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then it’s like I woke up and baked bread, I said, and we were joking even then. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Later that night Fadi poked at his chicken stew with his bread as the family sat for dinner. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

It had been half a year since I had eaten bread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When they stopped to eat the bread and tamales Auntie had packed for them, they could hear a low rumble of thunder in the distance, from the direction of Tse-pi’na, Mount Taylor. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stack four pieces of bread next to the toaster. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And we have our own little ceremony, where they make their first fire, toast a bit of bread, and share it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like Baby Kochamma in church, on her way to the bread and wine. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bread, circuses, and something to worship are all they need,” the senator concluded, regretting in his conscience that there should be a lack of bread. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to see the brown paper bread bags everywhere I went. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

This journey began with him, you suspect it will end with him, and everything between is the powdery meal of windmills that might be giants grinding bones to make their bread. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The Blockalteste distributed double rations of bread and margarine for the road. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d save the culture and put it back in the cellar, then get the bread baking and go pick up the flour. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

But the nuns are fasting now, eating only bread with salt and water. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Though I swallowed the bread he’d given me, I knew I’d sworn a sacred oath to which I was forever bound. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

After the corn bread is cut into wedges, the peaches washed and dried . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Used to be it was just Mrs. Ellison and her banana bread, but found me a ham sandwich today in Nora Klingle’s box and half a baked pie in the Saunders’. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The van driver is inside the shop having tea and a bun with Kathleen and it’s no trouble for me to help myself to a loaf of bread. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I watch as she grabs a knife from the dish rack and a loaf of bread from on top of the fridge. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The busboy came by and dropped off our Cokes and put a basket of bread in the middle of the table. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She saw and smelled roasted chicken and warm, crusty bread scattered with seeds. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's real bakery bread, not the flat, dense loaves we make from our grain rations. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The woman smiled at her in the kindest way, and Nhamo knew the white bread and yellow margarine were meant for the little girl. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drank some and spread raspberry jam on the crusty, freshly baked bread. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I scarfed my piece of bread and washed it down with that delicious, meaty soup, but an hour later I learned that even in kindness, the Nazis were cruel. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

In Wang Lung’s country a man, if he had a roll of good wheat bread and a sprig of garlic in it, had a good meal and needed no more. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

From his rucksack the locksmith produces a loaf of bread and some links of white sausage and they eat these quietly and then he lifts her feet into his lap. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

All those years of having enough to eat and hauling bread trays around have made him broad-shouldered and strong. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I thought for a moment, ripping the crust in my hand open to pick the soft white bread out of the crunchy part. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I had learned to live with hunger, but now that my body knew there was fresh baked bread to be had, it could barely contain itself. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I did not describe it in detail, only said it was a dolce, and I think he believed it was something more elaborate than bread pudding. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Miss Honey carefully buttered a slice of brown bread and put a little strawberry jam on it. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

She eats only the yolk, dabbing it with a piece of stale bread she finds in the cupboard. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the blanket was a whole flask of spiced wine and a loaf of fresh bread nestled next to a turkey breast bigger than both my balled fists. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was Jon Snow she needed, not fried bread and bacon, but it was no use sending Devan to the lord commander. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She was looking for the end of a loaf of bread when she heard footsteps come down the stairs and saw a light coming closer to the kitchen door. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the commercial, the little girl took a bite of buttered bread and said, “Gee, Ma. This is the best butter I ever ate.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rummaged in it, producing more bread, which he tore and gave me half. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I take the bread from her and eat a bite, then tear into the rest so hungrily I forget to give some to Manchee. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She opens a cupboard and takes out Velvet Peanut Butter and spreads it on a slice of bread. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were bunches of carrots and celery and loaves of bread and jars of jam and molasses and bags of sugar and links of sausage. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Their other relatives had modern electric bread ovens now, but Sitti refused to touch them. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I needed that bread to live, and I was going to take it. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

We spread out our bedding to dry in the morning sun, then eat the last of the bread and cheese. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I picked his plate up off the floor and tried to scoop up some of the bigger bread crumbs. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

They moved from hut to hut, entering each one with smiles and hands full of things like bread and jugs of water and crates of rice and grains. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The aunts always teased Liyana’s family about living on “crumbs of bread and mint leaves.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“There were repeated infractions leading up to that. They were warned. Still they took more bread.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I’ve had to teach them everything, even how to eat, because if it were up to them, all they’d eat is bread. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evangelists from all the surrounding counties, from as far south as Florida and as far north as Chicago, came together in one place to break the bread of life. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I looked again and saw the flat round piece of bread the priest held up. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Loaves of bread, jars of peanut butter and grape jelly. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Because of the bread shortage, we eat potatoes at every meal, starting with breakfast, but then we fry them a little. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t even rationed, like sleep or bread. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I saw ripe bilberries gleaming here and there, like jet beads in the heath: I gathered a handful and ate them with the bread. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Nazis had let him keep it to bake bread for the soldiers. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She said the world would be a better place if we all used waffles instead of bread.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I took a basket from a high shelf and loaded it with bread, hard cheese, and a piece of dried beef I cut from the slab that hung in the pantry. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother says we’ll skip breakfast, eat hot cereal and bread for lunch and fried potatoes for dinner and, if possible, vegetables or lettuce once or twice a week. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Fried bread, fried eggs, blood sausages, and barley porridge made up the meal, washed down with thin yellow beer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I pretend to knock on the door so that I can see what’s in the box, a bottle of milk, a loaf of bread, cheese, tomatoes and, oh, God, a jar of marmalade. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

To Janina’s back step I brought black pearls and bread when I could. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Bones, breads, bottles, and bowls lay scattered everywhere, as if voracious giants had gathered to dine. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

One night, Mariam was a few minutes late with dinner, and he started eating bread with radishes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had found bread, or what passed as bread in that area of the world. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was her specialty—more like cake than bread, moist and rich and sweet. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At lunch we got that, brown bread and lettuce sandwiches. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plate of bread sits on the floor outside her door, untouched except by the mouse that nibbles the bread and scurries away at my approach. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Just as he was kind to give me the bread. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have the bread now, and her face looked like it had been streaked with coal-dust. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been across the parking lot from a Subway, and ever since, I couldn’t smell baking Subway bread without feeling trapped and claustrophobic from the porcupine costume I was forced to wear. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Recently we’ve been eating a little extra rye bread because by four o’clock we’re so hungry for dinner we can barely control our rumbling stomachs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Along with that there sometimes go a few turnip peelings, mouldy bread crusts and all kinds of muck. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snoring, the rain, and Mama’s hair that smells like bread. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Macon walked out of the yard, the sun had disappeared behind the bread company. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

This latter distinction was made on the curious premise that Africans did not naturally like bread, which was a more sophisticated or “Western” taste. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was lonely, nauseated, and dehydrated, surviving on a diet of dry raisins and bread. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Mabel opens up the bag of bread and takes out four slices. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“The baker’s daughter likes the lad who works the press. She brings him extra breads and pies. Go ahead, eat.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hawkers call out their wares, and I smell fresh baked bread. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen we find a half loaf of stale bread and two cold sausages. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I charged a tin of soup for a short jaunt, a full loaf of bread and a jar of pasta sauce for trip any longer than the immediate neighborhood. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I’d been busy sopping up turkey gravy with the last of the bread, but now I looked up. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He tacked two pieces of wood inside to keep them open, a board across the top where a loaf of bread or other things can balance. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I was desperate for bread, meat, anything that wasn’t green. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I feel certain he would never have hit his son the way she did over the burned bread. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I held out my hand and she passed me back the loaf of bread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

You know how she craved my sweet bread.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond those canvas walls, each man got a heel of bread and a chunk of black sausage no longer than a finger, washed down with the last of Galbart Glover’s ale. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of someone breaking bread and handing it out. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Should it be bread or cakes or warm gloves or soft toys or photographs? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I met her down town. Is this your bread?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next, he broke off some bread, a chunk that he would have been excited to share with his siblings if a relative had visited and brought it as a gift. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A coat, half of a loaf of bread? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I glanced back up and shrugged, bread between my fingers like a pinch of cotton. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

So much bread, so much more bread than one person needed, and it was Moonface who held it all! Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

In it I put six eggs, some leftover corn bread, a little salt, and a few matches. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want me to toast the bread for you?” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We have the tea and bread and it’s one morning we’re glad to go to school where it’s warm and there are no yelling aunts. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His wife stood over the table, setting down the hot pans of new bread as Hathaway entered. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can leave to buy the milk and bread without them knowing what time I’ve left. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a tantrum whenever he saw any of the peasants giving their children only bread and feeding milk and eggs to the pigs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, having bought bread, a handful of salt alewives, and asked if anyone knew where Doctor Warren was, he quickly left. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearby stood a little girl with hair gathered in two fat puffs over her ears, and Nhamo knew the bread and margarine were for the little girl. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got furious if I saw the children circling the kitchen to steal bread, if the hens were noisy in the courtyard, if sparrows invaded the cornfields. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rich are very particular about what they stick between two slices of bread. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We open and shut all the drawers and cabinets until we've found a pot for the chili, a grater for the cheese, a baking pan for the corn bread, and plates and silverware. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of chunks of chewed-up bread, a blob of baloney and some of the mustard swimming around in the bottle. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

One of the few veggies I would eat was cauliflower, and Gay smiled whenever I gobbled it down with either buttered bread crumbs or a cheddar cheese sauce. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

When she reached for the bread she knocked a pitcher of iced tea over the table. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Just before we went to bed each night we were given a slice of bread smeared with molasses. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead we drink milk from Prim's goat, Lady, and eat the rough bread made from the tessera grain, although no one has much appetite anyway. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She could hardly taste the cheese and the bread. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Gregor sawed away at the bread, managing to get eighteen slices out of one loaf. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She sits at the table, eats a bit of bread and cheese, smokes her Wild Woodbine. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sister Fenella was his first port of call, and as the rain flung itself against the window, they sat at the kitchen table and kneaded some dough for the priory’s bread. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It’s not Sunday dinner without the bread and desserts, though. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The girl used the bread to sop up some of the bacon grease the trout had been fried in. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m not doing this for a piece of bread or a couple of bent cigarettes.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

What astonished me was that he had not carried the remains of the bread with him. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the pigeons devour my bread, trying to think why my stomach felt so bad. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Enrique runs to buy soda and cheese to go with his bread. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There were proud young knights, pushing past the wet rabble, their sheathed swords swinging like ship booms, occasionally smacking in the face the children who ran behind them, begging for bread. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“But you must have done something to deserve free bread,” I pressed. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

All he knew was that his body felt strange, like a puffed-up lump of bread dough right before it is punched back down. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When the bread started to go, so did the trees. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

And sometimes a slicer is not working fast enough but the bread keeps coming and there is a blockage. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He looks away, places the bread in my hand, and draws back as if he has touched fire. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And I’m happily eating folded-over bread and butter sandwiches on the couch, my book in my lap, my legs across the arm of the chair. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was I so desperate to survive that I would steal bread from a sick boy? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And I will bake the bread. Mother will show me how,” Rachel announced, as if that finally solved all our troubles. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down careful and Gloria Dump made me a peanut butter sandwich on white bread. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Still, my life remained absorbed by school and play and chores, running to the bakery to buy a loaf of bread or to the cobbler to pick up shoes that had been mended. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I flash back to Peeta's lesson on the various district breads in the Training Center. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“We sent out thirty-eight letters. Nobody had any bread they wanted to lay on our stellar organization.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he slowly pulled away from anyone who ever tried to befriend him, like a starving man hoarding his last scraps of bread. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He also knew how to make great chocolate chip cookies and loaves of bread from when he lived with the family whose dad was a pastry chef at a fancy restaurant in Los Angeles. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I remove a glove and eat two small rolls of bread so light and filled with air that they seem to dissolve on my tongue. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Prior to coming to sabotage school, Dasch was always "hungry like the dickens," and he made sure to carefully divvy up his bread ration and carry it with him. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I took the bread from my plate and broke it into three pieces which I handed to the twins and Nell. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s easier to stick the bread up under my jersey with the lemonade and promise to tell everything in confession. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Ha! Assassino!” she hooted, and raced joyously across the room for the bread knife to finish him off. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But as I trudged along, I couldn’t help staring at that sack of bread. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

On a footstool sits a half-eaten meal of soup and a hunk of bread and cheese. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She snuck some bread and a hunk of cheese, and she hurried off before she got caught. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then he thought, maybe he could give Michael Jackson bread. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Toasting bread and cheese, coring apples, placing chestnuts in the fire to roast. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

His mouth now full of bread, Harry shrugged and gave a noncommittal jerk of the head. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

When they finished stuffing the bread bag, Emily held up the concealed book, twisting it to view from all angles. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I took the bread to the table and sat down. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“But with the Strawberry farm you can also have barbecued spareribs, and bread from the wheat crop.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

At dawn I ate my ration of bread, returned to the barracks, and fell exhausted into my bunk. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I doubts that. Sweet bread is pure. But a pie is the worse thing to give anybody ailing. I’m surprised Jimmy didn’t know better.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He yanked the bread out of my hands and threw it into Snout’s food bowl. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Queen’s men, king’s men, and black brothers sat at their separate tables, some bent over bowls of porridge, others filling their bellies with fried bread and bacon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I will have nettle tea, a boiled egg, and bread with butter. Fresh bread, if you please, not fried. You may find the wildling as well. Tell him that I must speak with him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Dad drinks his tea but gives us his bread and Mam says, Will you eat your bread, for God’s sake. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The bread was thick and dark, and tearing chunks of it gave us distraction for our hands. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I reached a hand out to take the bread from the boy’s pocket, but I stopped. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Those hogs are our bread and butter,” she said. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

At last, they stopped for a rest and ate the food Dustfinger had brought from Basta’s larder: some red spicy sausage, a piece of cheese, bread, olive oil. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Only stale bread and wormy meat, hard cheese, a little milk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe I couldn’t stand for her to have so many people, and to be able to draw and cut bread on top of that. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Eating—cold, cold milk, thick white bread, cheese and cream, ah. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who could afford butter on their bread bought it and stored it in the kitchen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If I sliced bread, would you eat it?" Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Within fifteen minutes, the four boys had kissed their mother and were on the road to Lwów with the clothes on their backs and a little bread in their pockets. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A loaf of stale bread was made into pulp with hot water and mixed with a dime’s worth of chopped meat into which an onion had been cleavered. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Got it, Mr. B,” Joe said, trying to brush bread crumbs off the pages of the book open in front of him so that Mr. Baca wouldn’t see. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It did not satisfy desire, and at times Sam’s mind was filled with the memories of food, and the longing for simple bread and meats. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

From the Federal Experimental Theater I was transferred to the Federal Writers’ Project, and I tried to earn my bread by writing guidebooks. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He must like my cooking too much to get rid of me,” Mandy told me over cold chicken wings and warm bread. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Doña Andrea gave me a cup of milk with coffee and a chunk of bread with butter, and then I had to watch my sisters and brothers until Mami came home. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was good hearty bread, filled with raisins and nuts. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Kote ate slowly, mopping up the last of the stew with a piece of bread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They ate bread and butter to celebrate their engagement. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tossed the bread in my mouth, chewed. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

In her hands was a bowl of soup and bread. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’d be eating poisonous fruit and bark by nightfall if I didn’t get some of that bread. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their milk and bread are delivered to the door. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then he rose, and set out bread and cheese and wine on the table, and they ate together. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

There’s too much corned beef and white wheaten bread. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

That kindness saved me, and also saved my courage, for whenever on the road I ate of that fruit and bread I thought, “There’s one man thinks me no traitor; for he gave me this.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She moved the second chair to the table and set it across from hers, and Ash sat down, feeling as though she should have brought something — some of her misshapen bread? Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your cell phone rings before you can get the bread out of the bag. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“He’s so weird,” Kendra said, taking a bite of what now tasted like banana nut bread. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I wanted a piece of bread with warm peach jam. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“The guilder is overrated too,” Manet said, tearing off a piece of bread and dunking it in his soup. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The boy pushed the bread farther down into his pocket. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

A young woman comes to put a new loaf of bread in the ashes and to stir the pot of stew. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then working servants helped him to his meat and the mistress of the larder gave him bread. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad makes tea and toasts bread for her on the fire. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The Hamiltons at the well rig had finished their lunch of Liza’s bread and rat cheese and venomous coffee cooked in a can over the fire. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They are huddled in a corner under one torn blanket and they are gnawing at a loaf of bread. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was light pastry, not the dour unleavened bread of old Dunlothian. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A knot of people outside Moore’s Store waited for the day-old bread to go half-price. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

With something close to elation I saw him pull up a large, gray lump of bread which he held up. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The bread had been cut into three large pieces and one smaller one. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

At this the maids, all gravely listening, hastened to set out bread and wine before Odysseus, and ah! how ravenously that patient man took food and drink, his long fast at an end. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were not the same friendly ones who had given out bread and taken care of the refugees. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although our food was not yet equalized, African prisoners would occasionally receive bread in the morning. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took my small loaf of bread with me, drawing a few odd looks from the nearby students. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There are hash browns, sausages, and heaping baskets of thickly sliced bread. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And all that woman could say was, “I’ve raised nine children and didn’t none of them choke when I put them down with a little bread to chew.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

His rosy face just now untucked itself, the whole moment marsupial, strangely wondrous that way, and I thought if I had tasted a family hunger all my life that this should be my daily bread. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

People don't use their bakery rations for fancy pastries; they use them for bread. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We drink our tea while Alphie chews the last bit of bread covered with sugar. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

So he begged his father for bread, received two hundred dollars by return mail, and, early one morning, he clambered joyfully aboard a Trailways bus bound for the capital. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother finally went to work as a cook and left me and my brother alone in the flat each day with a loaf of bread and a pot of tea. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I had begged bread from the officials, I had wondered dimly if the outcasts could become united in action, thought, and feeling. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bread and cheese was presently brought in and distributed, to the high delight and refreshment of the whole school. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

We ate bread and jam and slices of salty meat. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Even going out for bread could get you in all sorts of trouble. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I offered her a seat in the rocking chair, gave her a piece of hard bread and a cup of cold coffee. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She dreamt continually of bread, of grainy ryes and pumpemickels, whole wheat and challah in woven straw baskets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that night, she would slice him an extra-thick piece of corn bread with his dinner. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was flat bread fresh from the pan, still warm. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nali sat down next to him and dropped a bag of white bread, cheese, and Spam on the table. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I took a long time picking out a just-right loaf of bread. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They ate their soup and bread in silence while the kettle on the woodstove hissed. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

If being left alone yesterday had affected them, it didn’t dampen their excitement for the coming meal They jumped around, asking if there was garlic bread. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t. One of the advantages of courting the baker’s daughter is all the bread a man can eat.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the following morning, we had bread and tea for the first time in many months. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I went into the kitchen and poured myself a glass of orange juice and put some raisin bread in the toaster. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Probably in some cozy prison where she’d charm every guard into bringing her fresh bread and fluffing her pillows. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

On Christmas morning he lights the fire early so that we can have sausages and bread and tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Some people thought you melted the butter in the pan first to make grilled cheese, then put the sandwich down, but that was wrong because then the butter wouldn’t spread even on the bread. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

"In comparison with you I love neither the Prince nor my own life nor bread nor water nor the light of the sun." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

She passed us a chunk of bread and cheese, and the público driver gave her a dirty look. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But there's something kind of depressing about living your life on stale bread, the hard, dry loaves that no one else wanted. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“The only demon food well have will be the bread Hand Clap is bringing back,” Uncle warned us. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bit hungrily into his bread and swallowed a couple of mouthfuls, then continued speaking, with a sort of pedant’s passion. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

After the family had eaten, he gave the girl her daily ration of half a loaf of bread and a jug of water. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I even witnessed one man knifing another for cutting the line to buy bread. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Amaroq tore open his side as if it were a loaf of bread and, without ceremony, fell to the feast. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That evening, Tristran ate the last of the hard bread for his supper, and the star ate nothing at all. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

But there are things you don't question too much, I guess, when your home always smells like baking bread, whereas Gale questions everything. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We make it look like more than just fruits and vegetables, breads and cheeses—we make it look special. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He tore off a piece of the ham with his teeth and then stuffed a hunk of bread into his mouth. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she made her way back through the snowy lanes to Poppy Cottage, clutching the warm bread to her chest, Ivy wondered at what she had heard. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

As I patted, her eyes grew wide at the sight of a thick slice of buttered bread perched near the edge of a table. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Daddy,” I asked as I sliced some bread, “why did you help Betty Jean’s son?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch the bread baker in the doner restaurant downstairs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Processed food like white bread was called “plastic food.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

That included baking a wild yeast bread and cooking a wild pig two different ways. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He shook his head, "You fooled me," he said, slamming two pieces of bread into the toaster. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A course. Can’t have no proper sandwich on no raw bread. And this afternoon I’ll make one a Minny’s famous caramel cakes. And next week we gone do you a fried catfish...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

One day she took some flat bread sweetened with honey and walked the three-hour journey along the trail to Cho-Lung-Se, where there was a monastery. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

"Gog's bread," I muttered, not knowing whether to be pleased or alarmed. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Hushpuppy,” the boy replied cheerfully as he reached down to hand the dog a scrap of bread. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If they find the bread,” Madame Ruelle whispers, “we will all die.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

One fire penetrates Berberian’s bakery, making quick work of the bread racks and pastry carts. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Slabs of real smoked salmon, hard-crusted artisanal breads, and a waffle station with every conceivable topping. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I’d bet a week of bread that some of his ribs are broken. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Some of them even tasted like baked goods, like blueberry muffins and banana nut bread. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Warrant Officer Swart baked bread, made home-brewed ginger beer and assorted other delicacies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up the bread and tried to break it; it was stale and hard. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped now and then, when she passed a town, to buy bread, peanut butter, apples, to refill the gallon jug in the passenger seat with water at a fountain. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The bread had some mold on it, but I cut it off, too hungry to care. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Once I actually managed to speak to her when she came into the tavern while Mother was in the kitchen getting some bread for some travelers who were eating lunch. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were in the dining hall by 6:40 for a breakfast of dry bread and hot sugar water, watched over by a somber portrait of George VI, the king of England. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fadi rolled down the window to let in fresh air, and he caught a whiff of freshly baked bread. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They ate cold salt beef, hard bread, and harder cheese, and slept clothed and huddled beneath a pile of cloaks and fun, grateful for each other's warmth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Their mother, who was baking bread in the kitchen, came outside for a breath of air. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Castleman peered through round tortoiseshell spectacles over the glass case containing the breads and pastries, her gaze just barely skimming the top. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He grabbed some bread, butter, and ham, filled a flask with coffee, and stuffed everything into his pockets. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A loaf of fresh bread had appeared on my windowsill, a large wad of rubles tucked under the edge. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She showed Liyana how to slap bread dough into flat rounds and fling them onto a hot black stone to cook. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The youngest got only one piece of bread and breast milk. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A loaf of bread usually cost no more than half a zloty! Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He called for bread and meat until he was sated and threw the unfinished scraps to the dogs who slept by the fire that roared in his hearth. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The bread crumbs from the morning are always on the table when we come home from school. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

People ate by dipping large chunks of bread into bowls of wine, stuffing themselves, then hurrying away. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then she made the coffee and toasted some stale bread, and they took it into the grand room at the front of the house, overlooking the city. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The basket contained victuals: bread, half a chicken, water, and a bottle of beer. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He let P. T. out of the shed and gave the dog a half piece of bread. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

At night she ate milk and bread alone in the stairwell. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the Abbey kitchens Cornflower stirred the oatmeal and checked on the bread baking in the oven. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I looked that rabbit over good, Marty, and you won’t find any buckshot in that thigh,” Dad says, buttering his bread. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was bread and cheese and fruits that looked so ripe they might be bursting with juice, and what looked like dark sweet cakes laced with cobwebs of sugar. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her nostrils quivered at the smells of roasting meats and fresh hot bread and pies stuffed with pork and raisins, but her guts still trembled with excitement, and she was content just to smell. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles buttered a slice of bread, gouged out a knifeful of jam, and spread it over the butter. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the mute girl eating stew and corn bread left over from the table of the whites. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

But the buttons on his shirtfront could barely contain everything he had taken: two loaves of bread, twenty-four frozen waffles, and a ten-pound bag of apples. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She popped a piece of bread into her mouth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

You could buy a quarter loaf of bread, a cup of sugar. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

You can make yourself a sandwich for lunch, but put the bread back in the bin or it will go stale. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Sop up the gravy on my bread and nibble on it as I listen to Finnick telling some ridiculous story about a sea turtle swimming off with his hat. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But they might be monitoring me, so I open the bread and force myself to eat it strip by strip, chasing it with orange juice. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She took her bread, grabbed her little boy, and hurried over to the cashier. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Wood nymphs came forward with platters of food: grapes, apples, strawberries, cheese, fresh bread, and yes, barbecue! The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Prosper had bought fresh bread for breakfast but none of them could swallow a single morsel. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The dessert was a sort of black bread pudding with hard sauce. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Gebu went into the second storeroom, emerging presently with one of the small, flat loaves of Egyptian bread; but when Ranofer reached for it, he drew it back. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Kaede’s fingers were smeared with salt and lightly greased with oil from the bread. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Words and laughter and bread and sausages flew through the tobacco smoke and the horse’s legs. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Inside, the cooks were ladling out beef-and-barley stew, thick with carrots and onions, served in trenchers hollowed from loaves of yesterday’s bread. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They got there bread, and butter, and cheese and apples: the last of the winter store, wrinkled but sound and sweet; and a leather flagon of new-drawn ale, and wooden platters and cups. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“We need bread for others,” Jack told the woman. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the bread crumb trail until it dead- ended into her. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Jones appears in their thicket, his pockets overflowing with ham, butter, bread, and a flask of coffee. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing to be had here. You won’t find so much as a crust of bread here.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate it all, and used his slice of white bread to mop up the juice. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The stromboli is a staple in Pennsylvania cuisine, essentially consisting of a pizza folded on itself, a bread, dairy, and meat concoction held together with copious amounts of grease, classic adolescent comfort food. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Miep sent us a raisin bread with “Happy Pentecost” written on top. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We had supper at five—homemade bread, butter, milk, red beans, spinach and a peach. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carmine, drunk on sweet milk and bread, splays in my lap, his dark head in the crook of my arm. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The imprint of her thumb remained in the bread’s soft pores. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It held a change of clothes, a loaf of trail bread, some jerked meat, a skin of water, needle and thread, flint and steel, pens and ink. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know why, but after a day of the pickle, the bread and potatoes tasted good again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peel the potatoes and set ’em to boil, rub a wood bowl with garlic, mix up a salad, and slice my French bread. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The back door is open on shelves of steaming newly baked bread. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The Tehlins sometimes gave out bread, making us say prayers before we could take our loaf. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She also found half a small loaf of brown bread. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

To Gogol’s left, Edith is discussing her reasons for not eating bread. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And leave them smelling bread baking in an empty house? You don’t seem to understand,” he said. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a loaf of Italian bread in a little basket, and iceberg lettuce and grated carrots tossed with bottled dressing and croutons, and glasses of red wine. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He can’t afford a store anywhere else but where she lives, and she has no other place to buy a good apple or a fresh loaf of bread. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dried me off, massaged me until I was as soft as moistened bread, and pulled the covers over me when I closed my eyes in the bed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On it was a plate containing two bread loaves, half an onion, and the scanty remnants of a salted fish, the leavings from Gebu’s breakfast. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I got some water, I got some bread: for perhaps I should have to walk far; and my strength, sorely shaken of late, must not break down. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Because of the bread, because of the red weal that stood out on his cheekbone. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Once inside their rooms, Dallas and Florida each pried up a loose floorboard and deposited their takings from the kitchen: one nearly whole piece of bread and one raw potato each. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He stuffed the bread into his pockets; he would eat it some time later. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are so many side dishes, you can hardly count them—potatoes of all kinds, and cabbage and every other vegetable, and delicious breads. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nonchalantly he took out his claspknife, cut hunks of bread from the long loaf. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do you know how much I would have had to explain about hobbits and lembas bread and wizards who hold your cheeks in their hands and pour love into you? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Your brother can come for his own bread,” Trapis said gently, then looked more closely at the boy, sensing something. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His mother, Malachite, was punching down bread dough in a large ceramic bowl, the sleeves of her linen shirt rolled up to her elbows, her mouth open in a laugh and her eyes crinkled. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

"Fred Narracott, he comes over every morning, sir. He brings the bread and the milk and the post, and takes the orders." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take long to finish the small portion of mutton and bread. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma changed her song to “Bread of Heaven, bread of Heaven, feed me till I want no more.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, I’m pretending to eat paella but really eating more bread dipped in olive oil than paella. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He calls every evening before leaving the office to say he is on his way home, asks if he needs to pick up lettuce or a loaf of bread. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

With no yeast, the flour they had could not be made into bread, but instead was baked into heavy, unleavened scones. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

"The bread? What? From when we were kids?" he says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She sits at the table with a pot of tea, cups and saucers, plenty of bread, butter, cold meats of all kinds. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Papa half dragged her to where his wife was mixing batter for cheesy bread. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

You scrape out the bread, then you fill it with fried potatoes, a slice of baloney, and some pickled mango relish called achar. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But under all our talk floated a latent sense of violence; the whites had drawn a line over which we dared not step and we accepted that line because our bread was at stake. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she ate her bread and meat, she kept one hand curved about the cup enjoying its warmth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ate hot cereal with strawberries, buttermilk with strawberries, bread with strawberries, strawberries for dessert, strawberries with sugar, strawberries with sand. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

For the first year of the Leningrad blockade, Yekaterina lived on not much more than a daily ration of soup made with boiled water and four slices of brown bread. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Helmuth remembers the day Hitler was appointed chancellor, how the flat smelled of fresh rye bread and sausage and fried onions. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now Mack counted fifty frogs into a can and walked back to the grocery with Lee and got two dollars’ worth of bacon and eggs and bread. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, Enrique watches the priest return to the church on his bicycle, loaded down with bags of donated bread. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I butter the bread when the slices pop up. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The mistress of the stores brought up provisions of bread and wine, with victuals fit for kings, and Telemakhos stepped up on the painted car. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

From behind the tree came the call, “Is that you, Jane, my dove?” and out leaped the baker, holding a bunch of Michaelmas daisies and a basket of bread before him. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there's the park that we go to, with a paper bag filled with my mom's spiced potatoes in folded bread and bottles of juice. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I flooded the sticky piece of bread with hot saliva and swallowed it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hold our hands to the fire for the heat that’s in it but we can’t stay there long because we have to drink our tea and eat our bread and go to school. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But this time their label fit, I was dependent, and soon was brought to curse the purpose that brought me here to eat another man’s bread. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The gash was crusty, like dark red bread. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“We got to—” He tried to swallow a lump of bread, and then retrieved it and chewed it a bit more before trying again and continuing hoarsely, “We’ve got to rescue Lyra.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Standing at a low table near a sink, she was pounding bread dough. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't know what I'm trying to say anyway, so I check on our corn bread and find it risen and golden. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Grandma grumbles around the kitchen making tea and telling Mam to cut the loaf of bread and don’t make the cuts too thick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Shay, not looking at her, sighed softly as she tore her bread into pieces. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she made what she had named Weg Geschnissen, which laboriously translated meant something made with bread bits that usually would be thrown away. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel my eyes widen at the thought of not having bread and jam. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Because we hadn’t eaten since the night before, sharing the cheese and loaf of bread with the chupacabras, we ate everything Abuelita Remedies put in front of us that afternoon. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

There were also little side dishes of pickled vegetables and garlic yogurt and the still-warm disks of fresh bread that my dad baked every evening. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The She Elephant bought loaves of hot bread and mugs of sweet milky tea from street vendors. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She’d had too much wine tonight, but too little bread and none of that great bloody roast. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The guard pushes a cup of lukewarm malt coffee and a hunk of dry bread through the window. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was a basket of freshly sliced rye bread and the coffee cups were set out on the table. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still another accused Teacher Wang of attempting to corrupt a young revolutionary by buying her some bread when he learned that she had not eaten lunch. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with the samosas, there are breaded chicken cutlets, chickpeas with tamarind sauce, lamb biryani, chutney made with tomatoes from the garden. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Butso were bread, tea, and milk, and many other things we used to eat regularly that were now rare treats. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was as if someone had snapped the land off, jagged and uneven like torn bread. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“He also gives us daily bread to nourish our bodies, that we may have strength for our work in the world,” I say, feeling a contentious spirit rise in me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Back in the stable I said to Uri, “There’s no more bread.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He gave me his bread and climbed up into bed. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kat had put flowers from the garden in a glass vase in the middle and a wooden board with stacks of bread. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Any idea how come I found a plush toy shaped like a loaf of French bread in my trailer this morning?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I wish I had another honey bread to give you.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He flourished meats and bread baked the day before, dusted a table, invited himself to sit, and ate until he had to go find a soda fountain, where he ordered a bicarbonate. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Get yourself some bread from the bin over there,” Audrey told him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I scoop the Spam into a serving bowl and add two eggs and seasoning salt, and I chop up the last few pieces of old bread we have. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Oranges, bread, beer, soft drinks: many things in packets and cans were arranged on different levels and, and on the topmost, a roasted shimmering chicken, whole but for a leg. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was because of my and Lori’s selfishness, she said, that if we had any bread, we’d have to eat it without butter. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The high point is our weekly slice of liverwurst, and the jam on our unbuttered bread. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mom would save the butts of the bread, and we’d shove a bunch into a paper bag to bring with us. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The food Sirius had told them to bring was in Harry’s bag; they had sneaked a dozen chicken legs, a loaf of bread, and a flask of pumpkin juice from the lunch table. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

People would build a kiosk in their garage, buy wholesale bread and eggs, and then resell them piecemeal. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He knew that if he reached out and touched her face, it would feel like butter, the kind Master unwrapped from a paper packet and spread on his bread. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He pulled his bread roll apart, sending a shower of crumbs over Noor. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but I don’t know much, except about bread and a few trifles. You had better ask Mother’s leave before you order anything,” returned Meg prudently. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old farmer handed the reins to his son and brought a large brown loaf of bread out of a sack that sat between the two of them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t really heavy—none of us were anymore—but I was already so weak and tired from the march and from eating my bread sparingly that I barely had the strength to carry myself. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The cheese was hot and runny all the way through, the bread fried crisp and brown. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Baba examines him, encourages him to eat small pieces of bread, to sip a little cooled sweet tea. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He spread it happily on some whole-wheat, flax-enriched bread and took a hefty bite. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take tuppence and leave the rest of the shilling on the mantelpiece downstairs so that she can send out for a loaf of bread for the tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Many objects exist to be exchanged and consumed: sacks of grain, for example, are turned into bread. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He rolled the window down and waited, trying to enjoy the rich smell of baking bread but too nervous to really savor it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Singer brought from his closet a tin box that contained a loaf of bread, some oranges, and cheese. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The chickens rushed at the pieces of bread Sisi threw to them, disorderly and enthusiastic. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She set out bowls of soup and hung a fresh disc of bread from the big hook. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I nod in sympathy, even though the thought of strawberry jam on some toasted bread isn’t too bad. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

My grandfather had brought sugar and cream and two loaves of fresh bread so we had a good meal. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tolerated them fair enough, except for the muddy boots on the furniture and when they spread butter on their bread with their thumbs. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of all the flying fragments the drivers of the munition columns pour in like a swarm of bees and pounce on the bread. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha thanked her and laughed, and when she learned that he had not eaten that day nor the previous day, she ordered bread and fruit to be brought to him and attended him. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had forgotten what food other than soggy oats and hard bread tasted like, what a clean body and clothes could do to a person. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Besides, she’d bark at him and say, What are you doing anyway going around with a loaf of bread in your pocket? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The bread served at meals and the bread served at Mass look and taste the same to me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Already, a pile of the light, round, puffy bread waits on the table. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Countless cheeses, breads, vegetables, sweets, waterfalls of wine, and streams of spirits that flicker with flames. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He hugged my father, and I ran to where Aunt Fela was pulling racks of bread from the oven. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead she took another slice of bread and was just wondering how nice the cheese standing on the supposed scriptorium table would be when she noticed Mo whispering something to Elinor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Here,” he handed me a loaf of bread. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Slide that over here, would you? If our young noble’s not coming back, I’ll have his bread.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When you could walk down Main Street and smell Mama Santoni’s warm bread instead of dust and wind? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

At a crossroads, Dicey went into a general store and bought potatoes and tomatoes, a quart of milk and another loaf of bread. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sharp, pungent cheese that crumbled when she bit into it, and there was a soft, creamy one that she spread over the bread. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesus didn’t become a proper Catholic till he took the bread and wine at the Last Supper and He was thirty- three years of age. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The following year, as we moved toward graduation, he would invite some of us for dinners at his home, and Marcy would serve up big bowls of pasta with garlic bread. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They broke into a run—bought bread at Reynaud’s and joggled Lee into action. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We take our bread plates and pass them around. What you get back is half your meal and a little bit of everyone else’s.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

When we’re back home it takes a while to dig Alphie out from under the load of coal and turf and he won’t stop screaming till I give him bread and marmalade. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Olive ate even more: Gooseberry tarts and currant bread and cream trifle and plum pudding and chocolate bonbons and spice cake—all dribbled over with butter rum sauce and apricot sauce and peppermint sauce. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t laugh long, there is no more bread and we’re hungry, the four of us. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The innkeeper was back with a plate of thick brown bread studded with nuts and raisins. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Normal for me was stolen bread and ditch water. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The son was looking directly ahead out of the window stuffing himself with bread and peanut-butter and strawberry jam. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The meat warmed through the bread in my hand. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Look what I shot," Gale holds up a loaf of bread with an arrow stuck in it, and I laugh. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In Paris, the women say, people are waiting in line five hours for a loaf of bread. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I buy two end-of-day discounted rolls from the bakery for our supper, and two weeks after that, I have to decide between bread for our stomachs and coal for the stove. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene and I hovered around the stove like pigeons waiting for bread crumbs. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She looked up, and saw that Marmeluc was about to dip his bread into the cheese. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I nibbled on the mushy, slightly charred bread. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The squirrel gave some body to the stew, and they ate it with black bread and hard cheese that night around their fire. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes there is a feast and sometimes there's nothing but a loaf of stale bread for the tributes to compete for. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He took the bit of dry bread and the slightly wilted half of the onion from his sash, avoiding Heqet’s eyes. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

They were trying to take the bread out of my mouth, and I agreed with them too much to want to fight back. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every man’s a cheater, and so every man is fed, For we feed upon each other, when we seek our daily bread. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “I’ve had enough life these last three days. I’m sticking to the bread.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The bread on the sandwiches was kind of amazing. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Vonetta and Fern squealed as if the little colored girl in the commercial were standing in our room eating buttered bread. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The toast is finished,’ Mr Tibbs whispered, ‘and chef says there is no more bread.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put eight pounds in the post office for my fare to America and that night we have a big supper of ham, tomatoes, bread, butter, jam. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It’s all so samey, farm after farm, shrines at every crossroad and a community bread oven in every village. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Or in France where the people carried home bread from the store without its being wrapped. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Macaroni and cheese is my favorite, how she makes it, hot and gooey from the oven, four different kinds of cheese, and bread crumbs brown and crunchy on top. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Hair with barrettes in all colors on bronze bread. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

They'd asked us for bread and the best I could give was a glass eye—not so much as an electric guitar. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed it, slammed it onto a plate, and started smearing butter on it so hard that I ripped the bread. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A mouthful of bread and a spoonful of snow. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But naturally arising mutants—the bread and butter of fruit fly geneticists—were far too rare. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In Chatham, New Jersey, he set up a big camp, complete with a bakery large enough to supply bread to an army. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hoping for a big breakfast, Hannah was disappointed when all Gitl put on the table was a jug of milk, black coffee, and a loaf of dark bread. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gramps fishes and he smokes his own salmon and oysters, and we would’ve probably eaten that with Gran’s homemade thick brown beer bread. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up what remained of the loaf of bread and the music sang of surrender, resignation. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They loaded the wagon with all the bread she had. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Reading, like bread, was necessary for sustenance, he said. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He kicked Ranofer awake each morning on his way out of the courtyard, tossed him a copper to buy bread or jerked his thumb toward the storeroom to indicate that there was food laid out. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

We all know that the hounds are rewarded with a fouail, or mixture of bowels and bread cooked over a fire, and, of course, poor King Pellinore bad used the wrong word. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he, too, like the others, would soon forget, would become caught up in the tense grind of struggling for bread. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“How about that flat bread you’ve got with your finest selection of cheeses?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I passed him bread and eggs quickly through the fence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

If she was making bread and wasn’t sure how much flour she’d added. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I smell fresh bread and turn my stiff neck to find Peeta looking down at me with such a sad expression. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She paused in tearing a piece of dark bread away from the loaf and looked up at me quizzically. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As it was wartime, we usually had nothing more than a few crusts of bread and an occasional biscuit. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She found a loaf of bread on sale for fifteen cents and a jar of peanut butter for seventy-one cents. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here y’are,” she said, putting a hunk of bread in his hand. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Apart from the Chianti, the only offerings so far are a loaf of bread and a small bowl of olives. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We could make ravioli and garlic bread, quesadillas with beans and rice on the side, vegetable soup, a spinach salad with dried cranberries and blue cheese, or chili with corn bread. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Peach and I were face-to-face like two slices of bread, with Dismay between us like the tuna fish in a sandwich. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She watched Lane butter a piece of bread. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Dinner is soup, and we’re so busy slurping and dipping bread that it takes me a while before I notice that Mom is not talking tonight, even when Dad brings up my costume idea. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I bring The Abbot his tea and bread and make some for myself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In Honduras, Leti and her three children ate once a day—usually two pieces of bread with a watery cup of coffee. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When we had taken bread and drink, I picked one soldier, and one herald, to go with me and called again on Aiolos. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spread across it was a sliced ham, warm applesauce sprinkled with cinnamon, hot corn bread, and green beans. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

First you put all the bread and the mustard and the cheese together. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sick and I don’t want any tea or bread or anything. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She cut a slice and poured a cup of coffee and dipped the bread into the coffee to soften it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As though she’d read her mind, the old woman split her bread in half without another word. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

My first thought was the boy’s bread, but the rise and fall of the boy’s chest told me he hadn’t died in the night. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

We make tea and fried bread and sit on the kitchen floor. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“They contain egg yolk and bread crumbs. And so are lamb chops.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Our mother knew, I guess, dozens of ways to cook things with bread and out of bread. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had sat in that same location for decades and had a loyal following of people who would cross boroughs and state lines to buy bread and pastries there. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Oh yes, they also eat bread without worrying about it! The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Then I made up sentences that used at least as many letters as there are digits in this ciphertext. Beware the ninja monkey. He likes banana bread and drives a station wagon.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

While we ate hot oatmeal and sliced bananas, a truck from a local store pulled up and dropped off loaves of bread and crates of orange juice. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She measures the three bites of turkey left on my plate and the bread crumbs that I scattered next to it. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

He ran to the fencerow where he had left two pieces of bread and the cuts from a particularly tender haunch of beef that Nancy had wrapped in a white cloth for him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Police in New York City distribute bread and eggs to the unemployed in 1930. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Enough for her to purchase a square of bread and a wedge of cheese for the month. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

To grow them year after year without dread of flood or plague, in soil that offers up green stems that bend to the scythe again and again, bread from a bottomless basket. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a time when bread cost a quarterpenny a loaf, the value of my mother’s daily labor—by King Edward’s royal decree—was a penny each day; mine, but a farthing. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Servants park lunch carts beside us brimming over with cheese towers, spires of tomatoes, and piles of sweet rope bread and sliced meat. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In the end, I didn’t just make toast; I made cheese toast, moving my slices of bread to the microwave and melting a fat mess of gooey cheddar between them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She cut us slices of brown bread and ham and poured us both big mugs of cider. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lived mostly on these things made from stale bread, and condensed milk and coffee, onions, potatoes, and always the penny’s worth of something bought at the last minute, added for fillip. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also prepares her famous enrolladitos, swirls of bread filled with a blend of tuna fish, ketchup, and cream cheese, with an olive in the center. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He captures snowflakes, tadpoles, hibernating frogs; he coaxes bread from bakers with none to sell; he regularly appears in the kitchen with fresh milk for the babies. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

So, with the sun riding high now in the sky, they started off again, noisy in the August stillness, eating bread and cheese. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t tell Maya about all the people she’d talked to on the phone, trying to follow a seventeen-year-old trail of bread crumbs that had mostly blown to the wind and taken Joaquin with them. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She watches me and makes sure I eat every last grain of rice, every last crumb of bread, every piece of gristle on the meat. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I placed the bread in the toaster and turned the dial down to the lightest setting. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At the next table, she was given a small slab of dark bread. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air smelled like fresh bread, apples, parcel paper, and string, and I saw rows and rows of wrapped chocolates living behind glass. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He tells Mam the coal yards are closed and we’ll have to drink milk and eat bread tonight, but when I tell her about the women on the road she passes Eugene to him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Family members stood in line with people who were obviously homeless and waited their turn to be served chicken, and green beans, mashed potatoes, and bread, by Love. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I try to explain that Mam has the disease and I’m worn out trying to make ends meet, keeping the home fires burning, getting lemonade for Mam and bread for my brothers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But there was no bread dough in the bowl at all. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Several minutes later he emerged, bringing out cheese and a loaf of dark bread, cold chicken and sausage, butter and honey. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her hair smells like bread and cinnamon from the shop. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“I think he should be put in the Slammer for a week with only bread and water—and we need to make sure everyone knows about it so they don’t get any ideas.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Saturday night,” said I, when we sat at our supper of bread and cheese and beer. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

How many hundreds of times Johnny had seen those strong white teeth tearing at coarse bread. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The worry got into her bread, and the loaves that came out of the oven that day were lumpy and dry. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lunch turned out to be a massive affair, with a thick soup, fresh rye bread, onion rolls, bagels, cream cheese, scrambled eggs, smoked salmon, and chocolate pudding. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He fries bread for the rest of us and we have a lovely night up in Italy where it’s warm. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Children died in droves, and adults ate bread by the sweat of their brows. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she pretended his room needed cleaning as badly as the bread needed baking or the garden needed weeding. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Its skin was tacky, like warm bread dough. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He choked on the bread and dribbled tea onto his shirt. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was cutting a slice of white, white bread, and next to her was a block of yellow margarine. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm sat down to gnaw at the bread and cheese and found it hard going, but his stomach was glad of the effort his teeth were making. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

At a nearby bakery, hungry men gathered in front of the plate-glass window separating them from racks of freshly baked bread, hoping the window would implode. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her father kept her on a diet of bread and water. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stunned by the blows, the old man was crying: “Meir, my little Meir! Don’t you recognize me ... You’re killing your father... I have bread . . . for you too . .. for you too . . .” He collapsed. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without valuables of our own, my family's only hope to fend off starvation was work, since work meant food, maybe soup at lunchtime and sometimes a small chunk of bread to take home. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The bucket made its way around the room at a snail’s pace as each man studied the contents and chose a small portion of discarded potato or bread or gristle. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby, Ariana, was little longer than a loaf of bread and no more distinctive-looking. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She pulls her chair over to the fireplace.We all eat our bread and egg and watch her cry till she says, What are ye gawkin’ at? and turns away to look into the ashes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Dinner in the Mess was brown bread with butter, stew, and beans. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Miss Honey found a tray and on it she put two mugs, the teapot, the half bottle of milk and a plate with the two slices of bread. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

We always have homemade bread in the bread drawer. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The others went in for white bread and gravy mix sandwiches, lukewarm baked beans, pies made from cardboard and glue. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were fifth in line, waiting their turn to pick up bread for dinner. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She opened the oven and looked at the pan of bread, then stooping she paused while someone descended the stairs. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good, now one of you can go stand in the bread line.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm about to toss out chunks of buttered bread when a voice catches me off guard. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She was baking plain white bread instead of buying it at the store. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my hands in the pockets of his striped jacket and found a lice-ridden piece of bread from last night’s dinner. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were flat and hard, like I imagined Indian bread to be. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drank the soup and ate the bread dry. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Not a crumb or speck of leavened bread could be found anywhere. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another family with eight children was reduced to living on crusts of bread for nearly a week. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He makes more tea and we have that with bread and jam so that no one can say we didn’t have a sweet on Christmas Day. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Why Peeta took a beating to give me the bread on that awful hollow day. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My mother tried her best to furnish me with four cents each day, and often I would bring my brother and sisters leftover pieces of peanut-buttered bread, and some skimmed milk. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys hid the extra bread under the coal beds. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

She embraced me for a few priceless seconds, pressed the bread into my hand, and pushed me out the door. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Prince Brat glared at the bread and herring. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Supper began with beef-and-barley soup, followed by a brace of quail and a roast pike near three feet long, with turnips, mushrooms, and plenty of hot bread and butter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Diamants health improved, and he baked bread two days a week in a cafeteria. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

You can come with all the Michelin stars in the world, just give me baloney and brown bread and margarine and I’m in heaven. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For some reason the only food in heaven was bread, but the bread came in every shape you can imagine. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She took a piece of bread from a loaf shaped like a clover leaf, and it was salty and rich and studded with nuts. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once more I took off my handkerchief—once more I thought of the cakes of bread in the little shop. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of its one street there was a little shop with some cakes of bread in the window. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I had only half my bread left, tucked into the waist of my pants. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with a dash of theatricality, he took the bread, dipped it, and then lifted it, dripping with yellow, soupy cheese, to his mouth. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

When a lord had a feast, he served meat on bread—instead of using plates, people ate on “trenchers,” which were just slabs of stale bread. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Inside was a half a piece of bread wrapped in clear plastic. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

By the mid-twentieth century, however, the tables had been turned: old favourites became the bread and butter of live concerts, with new works squeezed in between them apologetically. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Ranofer admired his handiwork a moment, then changed the kneeling man to a sitting woman, obliterated the stroke and replaced it with a bread loaf. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She looked at them as if they could speak to her, and perhaps they did; she covered the bread with a cheesecloth and took out the fairy cloak and went into the Wood. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His cup, his bread and meat, were spilt and scattered far and wide, and his head slammed on the ground. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The table is covered in a white lace cloth and dotted by silver platters with lids, bowls of grapes, baskets of bread, and glasses of bubbling liquids. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The beer was brown, the bread black, the stew a creamy white. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I extend my cupped hands, but he will not give me the bread. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She flicked a piece of bread to a seagull she’d begun to call Bob, because of the way he moved his head up and down while he watched her eat. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

By nightfall, Harry felt discouraged and anxious, and a supper composed largely of moldy bread, upon which Hermione had tried a variety of unsuccessful Transfigurations, did nothing to help. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We gather round and eat the delicious sweet flesh with the salty bread from District 4. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I think there’s even some of my hair on that loaf of bread; I caught him snitching some out of my hairbrush. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Later that night I asked Papa about the bread. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was filled with the smell of the roasting turkey John had prepared, with a stuffing of sausage, mushrooms, walnuts, apples, and spiced bread crumbs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like, a whole crab with legs and pincher claws, all fried up, wedged between two pieces of white bread. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

On the fourth day, I finished my last bit of traveler’s bread. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But this, he realized, letting himself go deeper, to feel it completely, was not a yearning for a bowl of soup or piece of bread. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"If I give them bread today, on the morrow I'll have twice as many at the gates. Who else?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He took a quarter loaf of stale white bread from the top of the refrigerator, to help soak up the casserole. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They have been at it for several months, new slips of paper arriving inside a loaf of bread every few days, and lately Etienne plays music. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I had not known bread could be given. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Then he would sigh, and say, Laila, my love, the only enemy an Afghan cannot defeat is himself Babi took his seat at the table, dipped bread into his bowl of aush. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I remember best going with the younger daughter, Helga, to visit the neighboring farms, eating thick, dark bread in farmhouse kitchens, and learning to wear clogs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She kept her nails short so bread dough wouldn’t stick under them when she kneaded it, but she always painted them a deep red to match her toenails. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Some crouched in dark doorways of abandoned buildings, gnawing on moldy bread and the peels of sugar beets. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He took clothes from the lost and found and scavenged the garbage for day-old bread. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She reached for a loaf of bread, but a server swept it out of the way to make room for a new dish: a huge platter with a suckling pig on it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

One day when I returned to her apartment, she took out an entire loaf of bread and cut off a thick slice for me as payment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

They play bossa nova and serve bread and salami and cheese. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

That bread would go bad before that kapo ever ate all four loaves. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I choose bread, and on cue, the temperature drops, the air turns bitter, and the wind whips down ice from the hills. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She sat on one of our two remaining chairs and chewed her bread. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It’s got that green tint from seaweed that the bread from District 4 always has. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pull his hand up and lean my cheek against the back of it, taking in the faint scent of cinnamon and dill from the breads he must have baked today. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Each family will get two loaves of bread, two jugs of water, and one crate. You understand, Been-tone?” he asked, suggesting Benton would try to sway from these directions. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

And she bakes bread—real bread to dip into it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Gebu came down the stairs again almost immediately, carrying a packet of bread loaves which he had evidently bought on his way home, for they smelled deliciously of new-baked crust. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

When we were up in the air, a young steward served us rye bread and salami and butter and cheese and white wine. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you carry the salad and garlic bread?” he asks Dr. Martin. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Barbara,” said she, “can you not bring a little more bread and butter? There is not enough for three.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The table has been scrubbed off, cleared of flour; today’s bread, freshly baked, is cooling on its rack. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was black bread and honeycakes and oaten biscuits; there were turnips and pease and beets, beans and squash and huge red onions; there were baked apples and berry tarts and pears poached in strongwine. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The bread was soft and the turkey was still warm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Brother Luke brought soup in which dark bread was to be sopped. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“I wish they would give us something else to eat with our bread at the Apprentices’ Quarters. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Lyddie nibbled at the brown bread and washed it down with a little scalding tea. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Danny'd ordered scampi, bread, and a side salad to build a sandwich. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He disappeared and didn’t come home until late that night when we were way past the point of needing the milk or the bread. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

This morning I crumbled some of the remaining corn bread in some milk and took it to him for breakfast. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then he did the same with the bread, rolling it into doughy balls. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Detering meant to outwit them: he fastened a thin wire to the roof and suspended his bread from it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

At nightfall there were upwards of four hundred members of the Shrew Union seated around the campfire, breaking bread with the warrior from Redwall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There was a lot of food that came in boxes and jars, but she found some good dark bread and some butter and jam. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He stood with the loaf of bread in his hands, his legs wide apart, listening. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Theon hacked a loaf of bread in half, hollowed out a trencher, and summoned a cook to fill it with fish stew. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Actually, being in the infirmary was not bad at all: we were entitled to good bread, a thicker soup. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had left about noon, carrying some bread and cheese Triphena had pressed on him for his journey. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Schiem showed his true gentlemanly nature by refraining from any crude comments as he lay a thick slice of steaming meat atop her piece of bread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I stared at the bread as I walked, imagining having such a feast. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the altar the priest began the ceremony of changing the bread into flesh and the wine into blood. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Goldie brought to the table a loaf of prune bread still warm from the oven. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“With one candle and a crust of bread,” Arthur told Theodora. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I scowled at my bread and took another bite. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was never enough bread and some waited until three or four wagons had reported before they could buy bread. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We send them to factories and press them into breaded sticks and patties. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Farid shook his head and took a piece of bread out of his pants pocket. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

One verse went: Sir, give me a piece of bread, Look at me, so pale and dead. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had received our black coffee, our ration of bread. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's different from counting crumbs of bread with that wild, hollow look in the eyes, just trying to stay alive. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I made the mistake of putting tomatoes on my sandwich, and they made the bread all soggy. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Axel crushes his buttered bread into a butter-bread-ball and eats it like an apple. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Barley bread. Gods all around us, a man is meant to eat wheat.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And I just kept imagining there was some Flathead Indian grandma in the kitchen, just making fry bread for all the room-service people. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

They could only buy essentials at the grocery store, like milk, bread, and canned soup. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Food had never made her cry before, but this bread was so delicious that she almost wanted to. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Just then Trapis came back, carrying several flat loaves of bread under one arm and a squalling child in the other. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I had a rag blanket and a half a loaf of bread there. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I boiled them, toasted the last of the corn bread, made some coffee, and opened a can of tomato juice. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She covered the bread basket with a dishtowel that had, he suddenly noticed, the Ten Commandments printed on it. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They made it Cuban-style—ham, mustard, cheese, and pickles, toasted on fresh Cuban bread. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

She brought empanadas and sugared breads wrapped in tinfoil, arroz con pollo and chicken soup packaged in plastic containers. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Like the explosion and my ear and Rue's dying and the boy from District 1 and the bread. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

This day she packed a lunch of bread and jam for Maisie, took the boy for a walk, and cleaned the silver and glassware. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Fearing a bread riot, city authorities called out the militia. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He feeds it, but when he sees the dog is still hungry, he goes back into the bakery and empties his pockets to buy more bread for the dog. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He could eat it every day, spread over Afghan bread, with plum jam. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I even saw Fela off in the corner of the shop, chipping carefully away at a piece of obsidian the size of a large loaf of bread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then gone when his cab crashed into that big old bread truck. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

They were all drinking wine and mopping up the oil and vinegar with pieces of bread. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Before leaving the house, he had gone down into the kitchen, and cut one thick slice of bread and butter, and he ate that, now, with one of the cheese triangles. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She stood in the road, a small figure clasping the loaf of bread to her filthy little dress, her eyes still and black and unwinking. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I boil sour milk in a pot, mash in some of the stale bread, and try to feed them from a cup, bread and goody. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Their rye bread and bologna sandwiches tasted good. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lately she’d go to the store for bread and come back with a can of tuna and just put her hands over her face, sitting at the table. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carl ate a slice of bread spread with butter and sugar. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, I took two big slices of bread, stuck my steak in between them, wrapped it up, and stashed it in my combat pack. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched him butter another piece of bread. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Your lordship, I beg you, help.me.” Lord Godric began to eat his trencher, tearing it apart in his big hands. The stew had softened the stale bread. “I have no love for northmen,” he announced. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My mother baked bread like this once to give to the factionless, but I never got to try it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The train would arrive in Wolf Point in less time than it’d take bread dough to rise. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The feast was a meager enough thing, a succession of fish stews, black bread, and spiceless goat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And even the ants Raised their heads: Knowing what’s good, They dropped their bread crumbs For a single flake Of chicharron. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing that the priest had properly and assiduously observed all the procedures, millions of devout French Catholics behaved as if God really existed in the consecrated bread and wine. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a lunch bucket of bread and cheese and a little packet of molded sugar. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The scent of fresh bread creeps in, and the stone walls are warm to the touch. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Byron, I want a half gallon of milk, a loaf of bread and a small can of tomato paste.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay the bread on the table next to the bushel basket and all the children’s eyes fixed on him attentively. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then I realize if the bread is not in the house he must take it with him in the pocket of the overcoat he wears winter and summer. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

‘I grew up on a farm,’ he said, ‘but I never knew you could teach a pig tricks. Help yourself to more bread?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, upholding his big-brother responsibilities as “first taster,” he nibbled on one of the claws hanging out from between the bread. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I brought the rum, and water and some bread, and we scraped out the bottom of the stew pot to feed General Arnold and his aides. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stumble through the door of the apartment, tell Helena she can have a slice of bread and an egg, sleep for three hours, and then pack up the food for Max. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Silently he put milk, bread, herrings beside it, and gestured to Johnny to join him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as a man rises in the mornings to dig ditches for his bread, so I’d work daily. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“My, my. This spring breeze is so rich it smells like fresh-baked bread.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Crab put the squirrels back in his hunting bag, and Grandpop put the burgers between pieces of white bread. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But by the time she got up to get some of the food off the floor, the previously quiet women had already rushed past her and savagely fought over every scrap of bread. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soup is possible to eat if he doesn't stop to smell it, doesn't stop to think about his grandmother's soup, her thick beef-and-barley soup, and the crusty bread to sop up the hearty broth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

So they chewed on the musty bread and ate the onion. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I had one morsel of bread yet: the remnant of a roll I had bought in a town we passed through at noon with a stray penny—my last coin. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She kept her eyes down as she served him his bread and ale, barely daring even to breathe the same air, she who was too stupid to be a midwife’s apprentice. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Magdalena hands Jesus her blue bag of bread. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She always left a loaf of bread on the ground when they departed, and sometimes, if they had them to spare, a bowl of red apples. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were fresh peaches and plums and white bread with sweet cream butter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, “of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted." The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two bread store owners give extra loaves at the end of each day. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There was meat in the soup and fresh bread every day. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mats and dirty wrappers were spread all over the platform and people were crumpled down on them, men and women and children crying and eating bread and tending wounds. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting at the table eating a piece of bread spread with lard and jam when I hear the noise I know is Shiloh. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still the bread goes stale and Mikey is so bothered by the waste he talks to a rich woman with a cookbook and she tells him make bread pudding. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Gale and I divide our spoils, leaving two fish, a couple of loaves of good bread, greens, a quart of strawberries, salt, paraffin, and a bit of money for each. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She remained still, trembling as the chickens and goats recovered from their fright and began to gobble up the bread on the ground. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It could keep a family in bread for months. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It’s a long way to the Dock Road but we don’t mind because our bellies are filled with sausages and bread and it’s not raining. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A roast beef bigger than a horse, set on a giant platter that took up the entire front room, surrounded by steaming potatoes and parsnips, and loaves of fresh bread. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had seemed dull and forgettable then, but Ophie yearned for one more dinner of beans and fatback with corn bread, Daddy telling stories of the rail yard as they ate. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Rasheed brought home sardines in a can and brittle, dried bread that tasted like sawdust. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

They skewered hot dogs on green branches, and when they were cooked wrapped them in slices of bread. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have kissed her but she had candy, com bread, and molasses all over her face. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teenie showed them the stones that had been dug into the side of the fireplace where bread was baked and the iron grills where food was fried. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was too hungry to eat slowly, and the soup and bread were gone before she had time to look around. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older boy was cutting himself a final piece of bread and cheese. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread maker. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She set the pan on the stove, over to the side, and then opened a bread box on a small table. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Uninterested in Mom, me, and the teapot he's all but forgotten about, Taro stuffs the rest of his sandwich into his mouth, swallows the lump of bread, and says, “Forget it. I'm not hungry.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And they gave bread, for pity—wondering, though, at the strange man. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had wild game for the killing, fertile ground for growing bread corn, and the Indians had been put onto reservations with the return of U.S. soldiers to the Texas forts. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were sliced bread and steak and fried potatoes and gravy and string beans and spinach and a huge piece of chocolate cake. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“A sort of a dumpling made from the ground crumbs of unleavened bread.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And the air smelled of milk and sweat and baking bread. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Take care!” she whispered to Gwin, and then threw the rest of the bread down into Capricorn's yard. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then she bowed her head a little, saying, “My mana would like to invite you to...to...to make bread with her.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Too bad for you,” she said, leaning back on the couch and taking a bite of her garlic bread. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Mass purchasing power makes the big difference. For example, breaded veal cutlets.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was crouching on the floor holding a piece of bread in its front paws and nibbling away at it with great gusto. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The teeth were very white and very square and they sat in his mouth like huge slices of white bread. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then came mutton roasted with leeks and carrots, served in trenchers of hollowed bread. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then Mrs. Hameed flips the entire griddle over, bread and all. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She hastily ate half a slice of bread, drank some of the horribly bitter cocoa Elinor had made, and went out. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Babies, bawling, fatherless, for bread, and girls in the gutters, sick with sin, and young men bleeding in the frosty fields. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He dumps the jam on the bread, spreading it thick with the knife. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I think how much bread nine thousand extra zloty would buy. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And in the mouth of the empty tomb that waited for Lord Eddard Stark, beneath his stately granite likeness, the six fugitives huddled round their little cache of bread and water and dried meat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We slather the bread with jam in an effort to keep the dust in place. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

"Oats and bread, and what could be better?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Ranofer stood alone in the dark courtyard, holding his piece of bread. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Why were there eggs and bread and milk in the first place? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cooking fires had spread up and down the park, and lines were forming, to get the bread or the tents that the demon soldiers were handing out. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end they settled down for the night in a far-flung field belonging to a lonely farm, from which they had managed to obtain eggs and bread. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Last year when Ma’s appendix broke, when her sick leave was gone, we got bread, peanut butter, and applesauce. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

In it was some barley, a little sand for grit, bread crumbs, cornmeal, diced apple peels, and sometimes even bugs or worms. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he brings home bits of the free lunch, rye bread, corned beef, pickles. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He ripped off a chunk of black bread. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The essentials appeared to be present: stove, coffeepot, bread pans, skillet, and such, plus a few rough and splintery shelves for storage. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking about how I had so little money in my pocket, just enough to buy some bread at the canteen. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inmates would carry bread back from chow, stuff it into the chain-link fence along the gallery, and watch from their cells as the birds came to feed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bought a fried pie, a loaf of bread and five Milky Way bars. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a small feast of the broth with kasha, which was more filling than good, the rest of the bread, a pot of marmalade Mrs. Diamant had been saving, and a sack of apples. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

For dinner, I order a large pepperoni pizza and a side of cheesy bread. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We have nothing but bread and tea and she doesn’t want the tormenting neighbors to see us with our tongues hanging out, suffering over the lovely smells floating up and down the lane. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My boots seem to leave prints, and I truly feel like I’m walking over a giant piece of toasted bread. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The coffee was gray with milk, and I skimmed the milk scum off the top with a piece of bread. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“And you!” said Mrs. Weasley, but it was with a slightly softened expression that she started cutting Harry bread and buttering it for him. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

They gave Father and me some bread and stew, and they all crowded into the kitchen to talk. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she succeeded, and even when she didn’t, patients and their families would leave small tokens for her: a whittled figurine of a bird, a hairpin, half a loaf of bread. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I once praised my lord Hamlet, turning his name on my tongue like the bread of life itself. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I waited for Hobb to pull the fresh loaves from the ovens, my lady. The bread’s still hot.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As I sat opposite Falconer, gobbling my bread and herring, a quarrel kindled among the dice players. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lockton removed one of the books and the map curled up on itself, clearing the desk for the plate of Gloucester cheese and rye bread and the bowl of strawberries I set there. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I had returned to my cell, I reminded him of our complaint that African prisoners did not receive bread. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she knew, without knowing how to explain why, that Jesus was entirely present, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity in the wine in the golden chalice and in the bread on the golden plate. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He plays up the baker's son thing, comparing the tributes to the breads from their districts. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mama came out of her trance and bustled around, grabbing many bread items and placing them on a plate in an overflowing heap. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Side by side, they had endured the suffering, the blows; they had waited for their ration of bread and they had prayed. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver reached over the table and riffled through the slices of cheesy bread, searching for the biggest piece. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But somehow the bread and cheese—still fresh from the shop where Tess had traded a few precious Notes for it—doesn't seem tempting. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

There was a silver tureen of some kind of fragrant soup; plates piled high with colorful fruits; breads that were round and baked with golden-brown crusts. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The rich woman wanted to know who was taking care of us and Michael bragged we were taking care of ourselves, that there was no shortage of bread and marmalade. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A corporal creeps in; he has a loaf of bread with him. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cracked the eggs in a pot, whipped them with a fork, dipped in four slices of white bread, and laid them out in the frying pan on the stove. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mama had started to spend time with some of the other women her age in the village, swapping recipes for fish and bread and soups. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Food was weak coffee substitute in the morning, watery soup at lunch, and bread at night. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the market stall he bought a loaf of bread from Jean, who tucked a chrysanthemum blossom into the wrapping. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“That day the bread count was short by two rolls. Did you take them?” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Would we become like the orphan child we often saw in the village streets, begging for bread and eating scraps of meat like a wild animal? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I looked in my bag and there was barely anything left of the bread and oranges. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I bet he will, too, I thought, staring at a picture of a woman holding up a stick of French bread at the camera and grinning like a maniac. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was a good supper, flapjacks, bacon, bread, and applesauce, but they ate sitting about in the parlor instead of around a table. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“White bread? So that is what one eats in Lublin. White bread is for rich folk, not for farmers.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved buttered bread, and probably felt bad about taking one more thing from a cow. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

We expect him to eat the rats but he’ll leave them in the lane with their guts hanging out and run to my father for a piece of bread dipped in tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The Wonder bread absorbed the acid like fire extinguisher foam and splattered against the hydra, covering it in a sticky, steaming layer of high-calorie poisonous goo. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I spent the whole day working beside her: shelling peas, kneading bread dough, turning the handle of the wringer after she’d washed clothes, feeding the chickens, sweeping the porch. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma, always self-conscious at public displays of emotions not traceable to a religious source, told me to come with her and we’d bring the bread and bowls. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stories about Yesu. From the Bible. Once, Yesu had just five loaves of bread and two fishes, and he turned it into enough food to feed a whole crowd.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When he came in at noon and at night he ate well of the food which O-lan prepared for him, good rice and cabbage and bean curd, and good garlic rolled into wheat bread. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I eat three bowls of stew and half a loaf of bread while the others dine at the table. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, my long legs carried me down the produce aisle, past the bread aisle, and out of Safeway. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open the door to the fridge: milk, butter, mayonnaise, bread, eggs, hot dogs. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The price of a pair of boots is about two or three loaves of army bread, or a loaf of bread and a small, tough ham sausage. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that, she was ready to go to Losher’s for the family’s semiweekly supply of stale bread. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face, as he stepped into the light, was round and thick, and her eyes were like two immense eggs stuck into a white mess of bread dough. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herb would have told them that he was speaking the truth, convinced them that he, Paul Helm, was a man who “said his prayers and earned his bread.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the flour and oil she got from trading eggs, Miss Maggie baked bread that made me happier than if I’d had cake, which I tasted only once in a blue moon. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Attendants served the dogs up on rye bread, and when that ran out, hungry fans had to hold their dogs in old newspapers and then discarded mutuel tickets. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not have felt more changed if he had put on the silks of Father Pinckney, prayed over a piece of unleavened bread, and felt it quiver with the life and light of God. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next server slapped margarine on two bread squares, which he laid like a pyramid over the eggs. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You’ll put us under a spell? Do you have some magical words, some curse you plan to use on us now that we won’t eat your medicated sweet bread?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He knew that she had never in her life reached her hand for so much as a crust of bread that Judith might want. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Fine bread like this is for special occasions. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I checked in on him. Dead drunk. But I built up his fire and left him some bread,” he says. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Flinging himself upon the rough fibers, he held the bread to his nose, and its yeasty fragrance brought the saliva rushing into his mouth. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I know the family business — It’s been drummed into my head: How to cheat the hungry customer And earn my daily bread. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

So did everyone else, even ‘Croaker’ as the girls called the old lady, and the unfortunate dinner ended gaily, with bread and butter, olives and fun. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

A messenger from Joseph arrived at midday bearing fresh eggs, pumpkins, three kinds of bread, and a joint of beef. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely if I go to Grandma’s house he’ll give me a piece of bread or something and maybe he’ll let me stay the night. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They love the mushy food Mam makes in a pot, bread mashed up in milk and water and sugar. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

One rich woman answered the door herself and invited him into the kitchen for cake and milk and bread and jam. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We easily trade six of the fish for good bread, the other two for salt. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I set the bread aside and grab my spoon. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At lunchtime, therefore, those with four pennies—a kingly sum—would wait in line, always long; sometimes though, there wouldn’t be enough bread or milk to go around. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn't occur to me until the next morning that the boy might have burned the bread on purpose. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I saw the tall paper bag full of bread that hid your second note. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Occasionally a child, with hands blackened by garbage, picks up a piece of stale bread and eats it. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

So the next day, Sunday, I asked Mom for her help, and we made a spinach lasagna and put the ingredients for a spicy Italian bread into the bread machine. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the canteen, which was nothing special, lots of boys and girls watched while I cried and ate my sandwich, the bread already greasy and the rice cold. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gathered the bread he’d cut with a curt nod of approval. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Pasta bowls, bread plates, glasses, two forks, two spoons, and a butter knife. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But tonight is different. the food’s good, as usual— fettucine alfredo with jumbo shrimp, corn on the cob, garlic bread sticks— but, get this, no one’s saying a word. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She gives us mugs of tea and cuts of fried bread and we sit at the table eating quietly because you’re not supposed to say a word unless she tells you. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

After the first day, he wonders if they are visiting only for the food, entranced by the luscious crackle of fresh-baked bread in boulangeries and the sheer variety of cheeses. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I never stop long enough to eat the bread. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I devoured my bread and drank my coffee with relish; but I should have been glad of as much more—I was still hungry. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

At two, having eaten a lunch of fried eggs and Jerusalem artichokes, canned pears and bread spread with clover honey, he went out to change the oil in his tractor. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Edd cut three thick slices off a stale round of oat bread, stacked them on a wooden platter, covered them with bacon and bacon drippings, and filled a bowl with hard-cooked eggs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ve brought you some bread,” she said, and took the wrapped loaf from the basket she carried. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The line started to disperse, except a couple of people who actually wanted the bouillon and bread special. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had fish marinating for dinner, with a salad and bread left over from the night before, so there was nothing to do there. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Outside, she sat at the curb fitting the bread and the pie into the paper bag. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She brought me roast beef and bread to eat. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I cut two slices of hard bread and spread some apple butter on top of them. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Dad lights the fire, makes the tea, cuts the bread, makes sure we wash our faces and tells us go out and play. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They all attacked at the same time, their crazy little beaks pecking at the bread and each other, darting in and then backing away and then darting in again. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

So now Molly does—she swallowed her pride, asked Ralph for money, and bought almond butter, organic honey, and nutty bread in the health food store in Bar Harbor. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

At midnight, Green served up a snack of fried bread and onions, which everyone dug into eagerly. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He examined the bread closely, hunting for varmints. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

I cringe through another mouthful of breaded eggplant. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then the two men were served cuts from a roast and bread from a bread basket. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Whitlaw added, “And you must be hungry, Moon Shadow. We saved some bread for you.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lunch was a bowl of steaming-hot potato soup, beans, narrow rashers of fatty bacon, and fresh brown bread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The little Jewish delicatessen was full of Christians buying Jew rye bread. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put the last bit of bread into his mouth and looked apologetically at her. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

In his arms, he carried two large loaves of bread that must have fallen into the fire because the crusts were scorched black. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It could be useful to me one day, to buy something, some bread or even time to live. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate the bread and half an •* egg. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It is hard to feel affection for something as totally impersonal as the atmosphere, and yet there it is, as much a part and product of life as wine or bread. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke Messenger pulls a pan of corn bread from the oven. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then he put his dagger aside and tossed me a piece of bread. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He gives us water and hard bread before taking us out to relieve ourselves along the track. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

For five dollars, you could get fry bread. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The star inspected the wet bread with disdain and did not put it in her mouth. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The air was heavy with the scent of baking bread. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We usually have this, or for a special treat, French bread with iced coffee. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there’s me, white bread and pale as the moon. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sirius threw aside the bread he had just lifted to his mouth and instead picked up the flask of pumpkin juice and drained it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“There are thousands of children on the streets who don’t have even a piece of moldy bread to eat.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He stuffed the bread into his coat and ran. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

They handed us some bread, a few pails of water. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her big hands tore apart a heel of black bread. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was some bread in the bread box. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wooden cases gleam, their paper-lined trays heaped with pastries and breads and cakes. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Osha found some loaves of burned bread that were still edible, and even a cold roast fowl that she ripped in half. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He remembered a cell with a plank bed, a sort of shelf sticking out from the wall, and a tin washbasin, and meals of hot soup and bread and sometimes coffee. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The hare gnawed thoughtfully on some bread and salad. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The guard tosses in a few loaves of stale bread and a bucket of water and slides the door shut, its steel pin dropping into place. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mom insists that we all have a piece of her freshly baked courgette bread, which makes me want to scream, They’re called zucchinis, okay? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Most of it was bread, herring, and porridge. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He sat in the back of the Great Hall, not far from the horses, watching Abel, Rowan, and a mousy brown-haired washerwoman called Squirrel attack slabs of stale brown bread fried in bacon grease. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The smells of bread and beast, smoke and steel are dulled, as if the mist has weakened their potency. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was nobody about, but he could smell bread rising. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he handed me a piece of bread and I knew I would be all right. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I’d cut it out of a magazine and nailed it over the plank counter where I kneaded the bread. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bring him down the hill to the house, feed him the heels off a loaf of new bread, all the leftover sausage from breakfast, and a bowl of milk. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dress, pull on my sneakers, take me a slice of bread from the loaf on the counter and a peach off the tree in the yard. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made us ham sandwiches—spreading one of the slices of bread with mayonnaise and the other one with mustard. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stein, our relative from Antwerp, continued to visit us and, from time to time, he would bring a half portion of bread: “Here, this is for you, Eliezer.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a hundred white meals of fufu, bread, Potato Buds and Carnation milk, it was too much taste and color for me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Certainly. Claudia, for instance, made the bread basket. And the twins prepared the livers.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I imagined trying to eat a sandwich like that in the bathroom, everything ending up on the gross floor except a single slice of mayonnaise-y bread I still managed to hold in my toes. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Distracted by emotion, she was drying her eyes with a slice of bread. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

A child with a slice of bread came to the window and pressed his nose against the pane. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Moonface grunted and tore a bit of bread off with his teeth. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was bread in all shapes and sausages of all lengths and colors and fruits and candies. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Palms held out, in the beggar’s gesture, he received the bread and meat and put it down before him on his knapsack—lowly table!— then he fell to, devouring it. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A noble lady does not feed dogs at her table," she said, breaking off another piece of comb and letting the honey drip down onto her bread. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My place was not with Valencia but here, riding in a bread truck with my friends. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They ate potatoes, tomatoes, and bread for supper and passed around the carton of milk. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

At lunch, a half dozen other young men and I were pulled away from our scant meals of watery soup and hard bread. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I gathered my little sack of clothes and said goodbye and thank you, wishing I’d finished the bread and the coffee, because it would be nothing but potato soup at home. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fold the bread up, jelly to the inside, stick it in my pocket, and go out the front door. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe, they called the Southern bread, cake, just for fun. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon the high altar stood a golden monstrance in the shape of a sunburst, at the center of which—exposed through a tiny window— was the round wafer of bread. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had too many eggs, so I tossed together a bread pudding.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Once they got away from the car exhaust on the main roads, the air smelled of baking bread and freshly cut flowers. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My dad used the word “inflation” to explain why we no longer ate bread, which rose in price overnight from two to five dollars. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

This, with the seasoned marrow spread on bread, would make a good Sunday dinner. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

For supper that evening my grandmother had a plain omelette and one slice of bread. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

On the table there is a teapot, cups with saucers, a bottle of milk, a loaf of bread, butter, jam.There are two beds over by the window where there were none before. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She sets her plate down, stabs a pork chop with her fork, and slaps it on a piece of bread. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

From that moment on, there was no further distribution of bread and soup. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were gone, she went back to the kitchen where she had taken out flour and starter to bake bread. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scrawny outlaw sliced off two thick pieces of coarse bread. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t scoot all the way up to the table because of her bulging belly, but she didn’t let that stop her from eating everything within reach—her salad, all the bread, Charlie’s salad. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Mrs. van Daan wanted to save a piece of bread for her darling son, but Mr. van D. was adamant. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

You’d have to be a thief of the worst class to steal one slice of bread and no one would ever believe him, not even Aunt Aggie. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Enoch knocked his bread against a rock and it clacked like wood. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I savor the taste of meat and gravy and doughy bread. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take my camera and film as Kareem dips a piece of bread into the cheese, spinning the melted strands around the end of his fork. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Ain’t nobody even peeped in here to see whether that child has a loaf of bread. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up Gwin who was clambering around the backseat, held him so that he couldn't snap, and then lured him into the backpack with a piece of bread. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There’s a cold sun coming through the window and I’m sure it must be warmer outside and wouldn’t my brothers be surprised if they woke and found me there with more bread and jam. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Throughout those days, while we scratched and haggled for our daily bread, I had a photograph of President Eisenhower for company in my kitchen house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you and your friends would like to remain . .. untouched by our serum, you may want to avoid the bread.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then Vasudeva led him into the hut, offered him bread and water, which Siddhartha ate with enjoyment, as well as the mango fruit which Vasudeva offered him. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

We put the healthy kind of bread in our cart, plus milk, juice, some frozen pieces of chicken, and a bag of potatoes that have brown spots on them. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“No, it’s the toasting fork, with Mother’s shoe on it instead of the bread. Beth’s stage-struck!” cried Meg, and the rehearsal ended in a general burst of laughter. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without stopping, he took the bread and cheese from his bag, but he was too thirsty to chew. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I could think about was that bit of bread. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

People who protested were put on bread and water with their ankles in a set of stocks that he had set up in a schoolroom. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The chinless man dropped the piece of bread on the floor. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Will wanted to do justice to their generosity, but the only thing he could easily swallow, apart from the drink, was some flat, slightly scorched floury bread like chapatis or tortillas. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I earned a few crusts of bread en route here and there in exchange for some drawings that I had in my suitcase.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I chewed on a small bite of the bread, trying to look indifferent. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The frost feathers holding me up, it became apparent, were maybe five inches thick and had the structural integrity of stale com bread. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I should have started this bread earlier,” she said, pouring the flour into the bowl. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Put it on Mama Ya-Ya’s account,” I say, pointing at the bread, milk, and water on the counter. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Lucia declined it saying she had grown used to bread and water. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a Catholic orphanage, he hauls out leftover boxes of honeydew melon, oranges, and bread. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

One wall is a grocery store, where coffee, canned soups, bread, and pancake mixes are stacked on shelves. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I bet neither one of you thought of that. And I bet neither one of you picked up so much as a piece of bread for an old man.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The display case beneath the counter was filled with pan dulce, sweet Mexican breads, that I remembered eating when I visited my abuelos. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

There was a third bundle of coins baked into the stale loaf of bread that only the most desperate of criminals would be interested in. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I stole three loaves of bread and took two of them down to Trapis as a gift. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They took turns poking each other on the chest, giggling, pelting each other with bread crumbs, whispering things the others couldn’t hear. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

At Reynaud’s Bakery he bought a loaf of French bread, still warm and giving off its wonderful smell of fermented dough. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If you finish, I believe there is a jar of plum jam left. Wouldn’t that be nice on a piece of bread?” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She sets the plate of toasted brown bread and a small crock of red jam in front of him and walks away without another word. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Gale spreads the bread slices with the soft goat cheese, carefully placing a basil leaf on each while I strip the bushes of their berries. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Boiled eggs, fried bread, and beans. And a jug of wine. The worst wine in the cellar.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The next day I sat in the kitchen with Viola and watched her punching down the bread dough, the cords working in her forearms. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He was already dead, his tiny hand outstretched, waiting for a piece of bread. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She had told him stories, sung him songs, fed him bananas and corn bread and, on the first cold day of the year, hot nut soup. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jemmy had made many a meal on bread and herring, when he was in luck, and felt hungry enough to ask for seconds. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

I reached for what was left of my half loaf of bread tucked into my pants, but it wasn’t there! Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled the sea air, the warm bread, the antiseptic from his bandaged thumb, and then he saw her—Desdemona, sitting on the suitcase where he’d left her— and felt even happier. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Fresh bread and vegetables arrived every few days on the backs of yaks. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I left early in the morning and returned in time for roll call, and then hard bread and thin soup in the barracks each night. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Anya expected everyone to go to the table then, like her family always did, and say their quick prayer over the wine and bread. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He crouches before the door to the front office to make himself as small as possible and crawls on his hands and knees to the steel cabinet, takes out the bread and starts to leave. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

"You're fooling yourself," he says, sopping up sauce with his last piece of bread. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He considered throwing his Wonder bread at him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"From now on, pay in bread," says the guard pragmatically. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Things have gotten so bad in Holland that hordes of children stop passersby in the streets to beg for a piece of bread. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The winter mantle had gone, taking with it Sir Grummore, Master Twyti, King Pellinore and the Questing Beast—the latter having revived under the influence of kindliness and bread and milk. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, Widow,” he said with a grin, “I’m glad the boy is toiling on our bill. For the love of Christ, all need to work honestly for their bread.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He unrolled the blanket, fed Frolic a few pieces torn from the loaf of bread, nibbled at it himself, and then curled up with his puppy and drifted off. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I take a large bite out of the bread and cheese. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I found a loaf of bread, took out two pieces, and laid them in the toaster oven. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Read in the paper, afternoon paper, what they ordered for their last meal? Ordered the same menu. Shrimp. French fries. Garlic bread. Ice cream and strawberries and whipped cream. Understand Smith didn’t touch his much.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I went off to wander through the camp in search of a little more bread and a few potatoes. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they sent us to our barracks instead, where they fed us soup and bread. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The blind man went to the bread container and found two thick pieces of bread that smelled fresh-baked. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Work and bread for all was the promise of the Nazi regime when it came to power. The promise has been fulfilled. Both work and bread have been provided.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, Mama knocks on the door, bringing bread and jam. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She held in one hand a slice of freshly baked white bread spread with butter and in the other a stone jug filled with cold milk. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lizabeth kept up her chatter, showing how a princess would use a salad fork and how to break the bread into little pieces rather than tear at a whole slice with her teeths. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We cannot afford to throw the bread away, because then we should have nothing left to eat in the morning, so we carefully cut off the bits of bread that the animals have gnawed. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bake bread, etc. hunt, and fish, trap, do most anything else. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to wolf down large pieces of bread. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I long to pull his cards out and add red to the van, yellow to the happy face, and thick purple jelly between the slices of bread in the sandwich. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched him while chewing a mouthful of the fresh brown bread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Like pipes his nostrils jetted crimson runnels, a river of mortal red, and one last kick upset his table knocking the bread and meat to soak in dusty blood. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blake held up a piece of the bread and asked his mother, “Why are you babying her?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Petra’s mom had sent her to get milk and bread at the grocery store around the corner. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Finnick gives her the last bit of bread and she gnaws on it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hot-water corn bread—cornmeal, water, flour, sometimes an egg—plopped into sizzling grease. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When he left for work the third morning, he had brought up some food, a dish of white beans in tomato sauce and bread. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Within minutes the smell of toasted bread filled the Center and small cartons of orange juice were placed on our trays. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wild- ling was within, seated at her board, spreading butter on a ragged chunk of warm brown bread with his dagger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

You could have two rations of bread, two rations of soup . Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came over to the toaster and popped the piece of bread I had in there for myself. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She cut bread and covered it with margarine. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then I made up sentences that used at least as many letters as there are digits in this ciphertext. Beware the ninja monkey. He likes banana bread and drives a station wagon.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Alyce worked hard and lived mostly on beans, bread, and Jennet’s bad beer. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow there are plates of sausages, and thick, crusty bread, and even a brown cake with nuts. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Fine. One: he smells a little like bread.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Lina, go get our bread rations. Your brother will need nourishment to fight this off. And see if you can find Mrs. Rimas.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The bread was not wrapped in wax paper and grew stale quickly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bread was weighed and distributed to us. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

For there stood a bowl filled with sweetened milk, in which swam tiny pieces of white bread. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark was making a big ceremony out of bringing the bread to his mouth. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of my best V-cuts ever, probably a little soggy now with the juice from the tomato soaking into the bread all afternoon. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

So Annemarie and Colin got to put on aprons, stand behind the counter, and help customers while I counted the bread order in the back and went to the A&P for napkins. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

In the rest room, I saw the remains of a loaf of French bread lying on the floor beside the waste bin. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At noon they stopped by the side of the road to eat steamed bread stuffed with salty pork. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Not a single loaf of bread did I see. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“The clue can be something about lost bread, or a book that wants to be edible.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Smoke snaked from the chimney of the cookhouse, and the smells of stewing pork and fresh bread wafted from its narrow door. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the piece of bread I was holding and tossed it to the pigeons. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I take bread and cheese from our leftover meal and a bottle of water. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

They sat down to eat right away—cold chicken, thick slices of ham and cheese, potato salad, macaroni salad, bread, plenty of lemonade, a seven-layer cake. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diego tosses his backpack on the couch, points at me and goes in the kitchen to make his own pieces of bread. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I dip more bread into the oil and pick up my fork as if I plan to eat paella. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He then produced a large chunk of bread from inside his shirt along with a slice of meat wrapped in paper. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Afterward, the shopkeeper’s wife serves us homegrown vegetables, fried chicken and bread, and hot sweet tea. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

On Friday night we wait for him and Mam gives us bread and tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Dilsey put some more wood in the stove and returned to the bread board. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s been eating all that bread at that stupid job you got her. She’s not supposed to eat any of that stuff. Idiot.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t like the pita bread, and the bean dip is too cold. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At Horseshoe Lake, they climbed trees like children, throwing stale chunks of bread to the ducks bobbing below. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes all I could find was green bread. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I figure that life will have its share of dry bread; and that when there is meat sauce on the table, I should eat it. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There were heaps of fresh-baked white bread on the tables, gobs of butter, pots of marmalade. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could have the bread for breakfast and lunch if we planned it right. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were great loaves of brown bread, mounds of turnips and sweetcom and pease, immense hams and roast geese and trenchers dripping full of venison stewed with beer and barley. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I can give you that. No bread today, you ingrate. Get to work! Davai!” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

In the late evening, my father, David, and Pesza returned to our apartment with scraps of bread in their pockets. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t know where to sit any more than I know how to eat the pink sausage snuggled inside bread shaped like a corncob, smeared with sauces yellow and red. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The appetizer arrives—a steaming Crock-Pot of bubbling cheese fondue with three types of breads and apples with tiny dipping forks. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she took a plate of leftover white rice and a scrap of bread to the living room, by the window. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I literally wrestled my bread ration out of her hand on several occasions. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Amidst the rushes and bones and bits of bread that lit-tered the stone, he whirled her and spun her and tossed her in the air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I walk around the room eating goose liver and puffy bread until there's a knock on the door. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Claws the size of my arm barely missed slicing me like a loaf of bread. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Matthew and Mark suddenly noticed the bread Mother was doling out. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Later on that evening my mother came back with a loaf of brown bread and the bad news that she was unable to find a job. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cookies that were always in the sack with the bread, we just gobbled down straight. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barry yanked open the fridge, and a thrill went through him when he saw two six-packs of Coke, some cheese, hot dogs, bread, and a large bottle of water. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion began his explorations with the kitchen, where two fat women and a potboy watched him warily as he helped himself to cheese, bread, and figs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The loaf of bread falls from Jay’s hands. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

You drop bread on the ground and birds come out of nowhere. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children who waited for bread had gone to play outside. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Faramir had taken white bread and drunk a draught of wine, he sat upon a low chair at his father’s left hand. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I would not steal bread from another living prisoner. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Besides, my mom lets me slice bread and stuff.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary took some flat bread and cheese and some sweet, thirst-quenching red fruits, wrapped them in a cloth, and tied a cord around it for one of them to carry over a shoulder. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Their reasoning was “since we cannot afford to buy bread, then we must just take it.” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“You could just eat bread. I’m just going to eat bread.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

A heel of bread was pressed into her hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When he spooned an extra portion onto Jon's plate and gave him the crusty heel of the bread, he knew what it meant. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I woke up to find toasted bread, brewed tea, and a boiled egg already on the kitchen table. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Amari pondered this for a moment while she nibbled at the bread to make it last longer. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he found the cookbook and flipped to the page for breaded pork chops. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Pieces of bread fly from Gabriel’s mouth, and we all howl louder, until finally Allys says, holding her stomach, “I like you, Jenna.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Moving soundlessly, Nettle groped in his haversack for the saucisson, cut it into three and passed a piece to Turner with a chunk of bread. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

After a supper of hot soup and crusty bread, I did my evening chores and headed straight to bed. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She gave me a bowl of bread dough that had risen and was ready to be kneaded down. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Twice that day they rested and took a little of the food provided by Faramir: dried fruits and salted meat, enough for many days; and bread enough to last while it was still fresh. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Someone told camp authorities what the boys were doing— probably a prisoner who got extra bread for informing on them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Matt, gnawing his bread, wandered off with Branch at his heels. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ran out of flour for bread, so the chum stood idle, but “I never craved churning,” said Lyddie. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Traditionally, English workers had brewed their own beer, which they drank along with bread, their other major source of food. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I ran the winding roads to school in the spring and fall, ate rye soup and bread in our steamy kitchen when the snow was too deep. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I watch her artificial fingers delicately bend and adjust around the bread just like they are real. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Each tray had a little sign in Spanish and English indicating the names of the different types of bread: LA CONCHA/THE SHELL; EL BIGOTE/THE MUSTACHE; LA OREJA/THE EAR; EL MARRANITO/THE PIG. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I bake fresh bread and spread it with butter, and Shad and them that is laying near him clap there hands when they see me begin to hand it out. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting up to the table and making quick work of the fried eggs and corn bread Eliza set before him. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One woman stuck her hand out of a carriage and let a man cut the bracelet from her wrist in exchange for a loaf of bread. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Shay turned away, pulling a hunk of bread from her soup and taking a vicious bite. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Papi and I sat at the table, while she drifted in and out of the kitchen bringing us food, water, a chunk of bread, and finally, a steaming cup of sweetened café con leche. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

"Or spread the word that there's bread and turnips on the Wall, and they'll go of their own accord." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sip excused us, saying, “Sirs, we is enjoying some bread.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

By then the refugee was buying bread at a bakery on the quay. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Tochi was unrecognizable now, so fat that even her nose had changed shape, her double chin hanging below her face like a bread roll. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was their bread and butter, their cream and honey, too. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Even better was the meal of fried eggs, toasted bread, and a fruit compote of pears and apples topped with strawberries and cream. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others joined him, and the bread was gone before the Nazis could yell at them to stop. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I fixed myself some eggs and ate them out of the pan, without bread because I didn’t have any left and I didn’t feel like going downstairs to buy some. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

At the door, an old man stops me because I’m still clutching the rest of my gravy bread in my hand. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Would you fix me a little bread and meat and slip it up to my room later on, Jenny? I’ll likely feel better after a while, and I’m goin’ to be hungry when I do.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchens of Madoc’s house, I toast cheese over a fire and spread it on bread. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In Russia at the time, a man could be thrown in jail for stealing a loaf of bread, then languish in a detention center for up to four years before his trial began. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Onto each was dumped swiftly the regulation lunch—metal pannikin of pinkish-gray stew, a hunk of bread, a cube of cheese, a mug of milkless Victory Coffee, and one saccharine tablet. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I wonder if Jimmy will count the bread order himself,” I said. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Now, instead of the plates made of bread, there were covered dishes, scented finger bowls, sumptuous table cloths, a plethora of napkins. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is carried in whispers by those who hurry to the chapel, and it passes with the bread and cheese shared at the midday meal. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

"We mustn't hurry this," Miss Honey said, "so let's have another cup of tea. And do eat that other slice of bread. You must be hungry." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

This, as they used to say, was the side on which her bread was buttered. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Matilda, who was perched on a tall stool at the kitchen table, ate her bread and jam slowly. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

We ate the bread and butter separately, ate the dry lettuce leaves, and drank the little container of salad dressing. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so startled my hands flew up and the bread went sailing halfway across the street. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It tasted like the bread they served us for lunch. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The scent of fresh hot bread stirs my hunger. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“You had this morning a breakfast which you could not eat; you must be hungry:—I have ordered that a lunch of bread and cheese shall be served to all.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He went over to the bakery and bought a loaf of bread, thinking about whether or not he should tell the baker what the old man had said about him. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fresh loaf of bread rests on the counter, along with apples, currants, and a soft cheese, but I do not see any servants who might have prepared this. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But Alyce minded little, for she thought not of her tasks but of Edward’s face and the abundance of bread and cheese up at the manor looking for a hungry boy’s belly to fill. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not so crazy about breaded veal cutlets,” grumbled the skeptical B-25 commander in the north of Corsica. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

"Gerta," she says as we dip bread into a dish of olive oil, "I have something for you." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The only thing that looked like a picnic was a loaf of unsliced, home-baked bread. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Does he like cute little bunnies?” asked Laney, bits of cheesy bread escaping from her mouth. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They are filled with bread, corn, fish, meat, squash, and berries. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I apologize that all I have to offer for the noon meal is some cheese and bread, but it looks like now even I am subject to the current rationing within the town.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I scraped off the black stuff and sliced the bread. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know of any Iranian recipes that involved baking romaine lettuce into bread, but that didn’t mean there weren’t any. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The flat bread was good, slightly charred and salty. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mam tells Dad it’s a strange thing when a child won’t have his bread and tea and Dad says, Och, he’s just nervous over the First Communion. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

After they talked awhile, they “broke bread”—that was what they called eating—and somehow, just by eating with him, they recognized who Jesus was. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

For a bread mold to grow successfully in minimal media, then, it needed all its metabolic, molecule-building functions to be intact. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When I finished, Ema shook her head and said, “Garlic bread. Wow.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“They still had enough to eat, and I would beg for bread or they would slip some to me without my asking,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dinner would be whatever strange thing we’d been able to buy at the side of the river, but breakfast and lunch were always limp cassava bread and fish wrapped in banana leaf. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But here is the funny thing that happens: Zola leads Mr. Pomodoro into the first tower room, where all of the childrens have gathered to eat the bread and cheese. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Atik dressed, went out to his sled, and brought back bacon, bread, beans, and butter. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was full of the fragrance of new bread and the warmth of a generous fire. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

When supper was over I saw that there were many biscuits piled high upon the bread platter, an astonishing and unbelievable sight to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I need nothing but the Lord who nourishes my soul in the bread of the Eucharist,” she says. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I would be dead even quicker without what little bread and soup they gave us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They sat around the small fire and took turns drinking soup from the pan, soaking it up with flabby slices of bread. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a table with a bottle of wine and a loaf of bread and a sausage on it. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Karl reached a cracked and bleeding hand for another piece of bread. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Well, now,” Mary said when they’d eaten some bread and fruit and drunk a scalding infusion of something like mint. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mom said she was thinking of baking some bread if a neighbor would loan us some flour. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she drops the burger back on the bun and covers it with the other piece of bread. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

No one swallowed their bread ration in line that night. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

This facility provided children from my school and other tribal schools in the area with a low-cost lunch—peanut-buttered brown bread, and a mug of skimmed milk. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zafoona had surprised them by getting up early that morning and making them breakfast—Fadi’s favorite of a fried egg and peanut butter on toasted Afghan bread. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

It will be a great day for America, incidentally, when we begin to eat bread again, instead of the blasphemous and tasteless foam rubber that we have substituted for it. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Then, while you were waiting for the pan to heat up, you spread butter on the outside sides of the sourdough bread. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

They give me tea and a grand cut of bread slathered with blackberry jam. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He races around the couch and I dart in the kitchen, scoop the steak knife off the table he’s just used to butter his bread. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Manet tore a piece of bread in half and daubed butter onto it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

To a man who had nothing to eat but bread and perhaps a piece of cheese in a public rest room, five dollars could mean a great deal. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Usually breakfast is bread and jam with my coffee.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They silently drank their broth and nibbled on the bread. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat at a crooked table outside, dipping their breads into the same creamy plate. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Ivy got to Taryn’s, her best friend squealed and rushed her into the house, which smelled warm and yeasty, like baking bread. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Out in the kitchen Doc was frying steaks in three skillets, and he cut up tomatoes and piled up sliced bread. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They waited as long as they could before buying because Losher’s smelled kindly of baking bread, and the sun coming in the windows felt good on their old backs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once when loaves of the sawdust-filled bread—which was baked away from the camp—were being brought into the kitchen, Moniek distracted the guard who was counting them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bridge and Tab were silent while he fed her with his fingers—a piece of bread and then a piece of meat from the foil-covered plate. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Jon heard their cries overhead as he accepted a bowl of stew and a heel of black bread from the day's cooks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A pinch of bread and half an onion. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Their bread will still be here in a few minutes!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And I nibbled on my crust of bread. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had no need for butter without any bread, but they’d miss the milk and cheese sorely. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

We were served heaping piles of meats, bread, and cheese. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

For all I knew, Rachel had the brains of banana bread. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Let’s split up so we can be done faster. I’ll get the spinach and the bread rolls,” he says. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Lady—hey, lady. Can you spare a little? Just a piece of bread?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Tell Mam I’m taking care of myself and I don’t need her tea and fried bread, thank you very much. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

One day, I saw Miss Grybas turn her back and shove her entire bread ration into her mouth the moment it was handed to her. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t put anything into the sweet bread. Now clean it up, before I get really mad!” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But increasingly I felt like maybe she had become too enthralled with the pleasure of leaving to construct a proper bread crumb trail. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

James held up a thin paper bag with a logo on it for sourdough bread. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He was kept there for a week with nothing to eat but pieces of stale bread and nothing to drink but water. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neumann Two orders two plates of calves’ liver and eats both, using dark little bread rolls to sop the blood. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Unwrapping the leftover currant bread at the Grotes’ that evening, I tell them about my party. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There were dirty plates on them, coffee-stained mugs, wooden boards where cheese rinds lay, knives, sausages, empty bread baskets. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

George’s dirty little hand pushed up his grits with a piece of bread and his eyes were squinted in a faraway look. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be staying in the barn. We need water, wine, bread, cheese and anything else you can spare.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Oh. Ha. No. I’m cutting the crusts off the bread. Go put your phone away, Wart.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He has a piece of bread, and he rips it and gives half to the woman. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think buying milk, bread, and water could be so much fun. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She was showing off the bread the way she used to tape up the crooked drawings Matthew and Mark brought home from school when they were little. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z