单词 | bully beef |
例句 | Maddie took the offered half sandwich—bully beef straight from the tin as usual. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “If they think Spam is terrible, they ought to have eaten the bully beef we had in the last war.” ‘It's flavourful as hell’: welcome to Hawaii’s annual Spam festival 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z She said: "He replied that when serving during World War Two he was issued with tins of bully beef stamped 'WW1' and it hadn't done him any harm." Best before dates: How old is too old? 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z One of the ornate lanterns made from a bully beef tin in the Italian Chapel. In pictures: Italian PoW Chapel 2012-02-23T19:10:47Z So three unfortunate gunners and a bombardier were told off to mount guard over it, given some tins of bully beef and a few biscuits and marooned, as it were, till the morning. Servants of the Guns 2011-10-06T02:00:39.987Z Mr Hunloke is an American lawyer by profession, but he finds that overcharging us for bully beef pays better than law, and gives him more time for picnics.” The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z Nor was it “bully beef” or beans, the two staples that gladden the hearts of the American soldier. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z Sector matériel consists of all varieties of articles, from tins of bully beef and rusty grenades to quantities of grubby, illegible orders and lists, and mangled maps. Average Americans 2011-06-02T02:00:20.387Z We were sealed up like bully beef in a tin, and would have had no chance. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z But it was included in soldiers' rations in World War I and, along with bully beef, Spam and condensed milk, it was popular among civilians and the military between 1939 and 1945. Love it or hate it 2011-05-25T14:21:04Z There were sugar, tea, candles, some tins of “bully beef” and a canister of delicious-smelling coffee. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z Dorothy wanted to know if it was true what the men said, that their bully beef often climbed out of its tin and walked down the trench. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z Coffee and eggs and plum duff and white bread and bully beef. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z In fifteen minutes Constable Hope had reached the Town Station, and made a roll of some blankets, in which he stowed several tins of bully beef and some biscuits. The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z We had not yet had time to get properly organized, and our only food was hard biscuits, apricot jam, and bully beef; a pretty good ration under ordinary conditions, but, without water, most unpalatable. Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition 2011-02-02T03:00:25.187Z Awfully good chap our Quartermaster; tried to show me how to spot bully beef. Our Battalion Being Some Slight Impressions of His Majesty's Auxiliary Forces, in Camp and Elsewhere Her sharp stem slashed through the quarterdeck like it was cutting bully beef, slicing five or ten feet of it clean off, so that it fell clear and sank. Sea-Hounds The officers were reduced to frozen bully beef and neat spirits, while the sepoys went without food for thirty-six hours. The Unveiling of Lhasa He made himself right at home, and we shared our bully beef and biscuit with him. The Black Watch A Record in Action Our ration had been the eternal bully beef, biscuit, and jam. Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition 2011-02-02T03:00:25.187Z Sitting on the roadside later eating biscuits and bully beef with the rest of us Viscount Massereene complimented us, saying, 'Boys, you have done a good day's work. The Irish at the Front Whilst we were sharing their lunch of bully beef and potatoes, bread, biscuits, and coffee, a 'strafe' began. The Romance of the Red Triangle The story of the coming of the red triangle and the service rendered by the Y.M.C.A. to the sailors and soldiers of the British Empire Cut into bully beef by those treacherous savages. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising I lived for the next few days on bully beef biscuits, softened, and oxo cubes dissolved in water. The Black Watch A Record in Action I did find some bully beef, and ate some of it, washing it down with a swallow of the precious rum from my water bottle. Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition 2011-02-02T03:00:25.187Z I'm sure Daniel will love them after being so long abroad and living on venison and bully beef and things. I'll Leave It To You A Light Comedy In Three Acts At the side of the road, much of it uncovered to the snow, were stores of ammunition, “bully beef,” and barb-wire. With the French in France and Salonika If I could only lure you away on a six-thousand-mile voyage, make you work twelve hours a day, turn you out on the middle watch, feed you on bully beef and tinned milk! An Ocean Tramp For weeks it had been bully beef and biscuits, and then biscuits and bully beef. The Black Watch A Record in Action The booty gained, our men said, was bully beef and biscuits. Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition 2011-02-02T03:00:25.187Z Another automobile had turned itself into an aeroplane, while another had obliterated itself under a giant bully beef can to advertise a special kind of tinned meat. Westward with the Prince of Wales Shortly before mid-day the force halted at the foot of a steep slope for the usual morning meal of tea and bully beef. Soldiers of the Queen Owing to the lack of fresh vegetables and improper food, the rations of bully beef and hard-tack, and the assaults of blood-sucking insects, many deaths occurred. The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War For two days we had had to eat our bully beef and biscuits dry. The Black Watch A Record in Action From the trigger he suspended a bully beef tin, weighted with sand. Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition 2011-02-02T03:00:25.187Z In response our fellows were chucking out to them from the train all sorts of things, bully beef, bread, biscuits, etc., and laughing and chatting at the windows. War Letters of a Public-School Boy "When you're on active service, eat and sleep whenever you can," said Sergeant Sparks, munching away at his bully beef and biscuit. Soldiers of the Queen We have fried, baked, mashed, boiled, toasted, roasted, poached, hashed, devilled them alone and together with bully beef, and we have still to find a way of making them into interesting food. “Crumps”, The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went However, it proved a very acceptable change from our “bully beef.” The Black Watch A Record in Action Then we had bully beef—perhaps the “unexpended portion” of the colonel’s servant’s day’s rations—and sandwiches, which I contributed. A Padre in France We had partaken of very little food ourselves for about forty-eight hours, so we found our way back to our old billets in the outskirts of Ypres to get some bully beef and biscuits. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders "If they are prepared to eat 'bully beef' and probably do their own washing-up." The Rhodesian My tea and bully beef are covered with dust of the last shell. “Crumps”, The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went Apropos: First Yeoman: "I say, is this bully beef American?" A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition So, while relaxing they eat bully beef sandwiches and drink hot chocolate or beer or, if the night has been particularly cold, a glass of hot rum. Night Bombing with the Bedouins New Year proved to be a day of short rations, bully beef and a rehearsal of an attack in the snow. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry The medium of exchange was varied in the extreme, and ranged from British, French and Egyptian coins to tins of bully beef, army jam, badges and the like. The Tale of a Trooper We live mostly on bully beef and hard tack. “Crumps”, The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went Life just then, even for the officers, was not roseate—the messes had a ubiquitous menu of bully beef and bread, and the mess-tents were made of the tarpaulins of the big mule-waggons. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 These consisted of canned bully beef, canned jam, canned beans and bread. In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France In the sudden uproar Le Page fell off the train, jerking his tin of bully beef into Clarke's shaving water. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry There was no where to cook food, and bully beef, biscuits and water formed the fare. The Tale of a Trooper After a brief interval, however, they recovered sufficiently to eat their bully beef and biscuits. The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland We had bully beef, the right sort of pudding,--those boys must have had very nice sisters,--and frosted cake. Old Junk We were given our evening meal, which consisted of bully beef and hard tack. In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France For supper our men had stringy bully beef and biscuit or bread. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Great piles of bully beef, biscuits, sealed paraffin tins of water and ammunition grew steadily bigger in hidden spots behind the outposts, and the troops were light-hearted accordingly. The Tale of a Trooper I sat one day in a trench outside my dug-out, eating a stew made of bully beef, ration biscuits, and foul water. Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France It's sand and flies, flies and sand, C.B., bully beef, jam, and No. 9 pills. The Kangaroo Marines Our meal for the first night at the barracks consisted of the rations we had been given upon leaving the ship—bully beef, sour bread and cheese. In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France July 10th.—We had an unusually good dinner last night, a feast fit for the gods to one who has had nothing but camp rations for three months, where the staple diet is bully beef. The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" No time was wasted over a scratch breakfast—bully beef and biscuits were consumed more as a duty than a pleasure. The Tale of a Trooper Rations were cut down to biscuits and bully beef, and water to ¼ gallon per diem. The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula Tinned milk for bad cases and bully beef, stew, and bread and jam for those fit to eat it were the main rations, but soup and eggs were often available. In Mesopotamia Before leaving the boat, we were given "leaving rations," which consisted of a loaf of sour bread, a can of bully beef and a small piece of cheese. In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France They dilated to Agassiz and myself about a great discovery they had made, namely, that excellent rissoles could be made of bully beef and ground biscuits. The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" On the whole, the axe has it; one must have fires; and bully beef can be eaten in the slab form. The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 A Cavalry outpost recently arrived is sitting in a hollow in a vile temper, morosely gouging hunks of tepid bully beef out of red tins. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 10, 1916 So we ate our bully beef and settled down for the night. In Mesopotamia Meanwhile his carriers fell heartily to hungry men's rations of bully beef and millet-meal. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales The officer taking over B116 hated wiring worse than bully beef. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 1, 1916 This officer and his men had to lie for twenty-four hours at a time without shelter from sun or rain, and with nothing to eat but bully beef and hard-tack biscuits. The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 We had a 5 pound can of British bully beef and subsisted on that until it was used up. Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch The food consisted of bully beef, M and V, hard tack, tea and sugar, as reported by the patients stationed there. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 "Only bully beef to-night, sir," said Meddings to the expectant major as he dumped the box on the floor of the hut. Pushed and the Return Push We took biscuits and bully beef with us but the hospitable sailors insisted on regaling us with a hot meal. Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 Their mess was so shaken and upset that the Brigadier had to dine at a much later hour than usual off cold bully beef. The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion Few men, however, can eat either bully beef or biscuit when they are thirsty, and that was all we had. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 This was the cook's idea of patriotism, which I shared most heartily, having at one time had nothing but "bully beef" and dried beans as constant diet for nearly a fortnight. With Those Who Wait The manner in which they pursued their advantage was by helping themselves to his tin of bully beef and getting away with all speed. With the British Army in The Holy Land "Sedition is talked round every tin of bully beef on the Peninsula." Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 Dinner consists of bully beef and biscuits; now and again we fry the bully beef on the farmhouse stove, and when cash is plentiful cook an egg with it. The Red Horizon To-night I invented a new dish—an omelette made of scrambled eggs and minced bully beef. Letters from France In another corner, a heap of commissariat stuff, tins of bully beef, rabbit, sardines, herring, and glasses of jam, and marmalade. Golden Lads These rations are 16 ounces of bully beef, two hardtack biscuits, some tea and sugar in small wax envelopes. S.O.S. Stand to! There we lunched with the ascetic Birdie and Staff off bully beef, biscuits and water. Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 There are two things which find a place anywhere and everywhere, the biscuit and the bully beef. The Red Horizon Then we picniced quite happily the first night, breakfasting off coffee and bully beef at about 10-0 the next morning. Letters from France You eat some 'bully beef out of a tin, same tinned stuff as you've been eating ever since your stomach went on strike a year ago. Golden Lads Personally, the Subaltern never succeeded in getting on very good terms with the "bully beef." "Contemptible", by "Casualty" The men in the trenches had no peaches, no squabs, no mushrooms, no avacados—for them bully beef and soup cubes, a handful of dates, or by good luck a bit of chocolate. The Tin Soldier Mervin originated the idea in the early morning as he was dressing a finger which he had cut when opening a tin of bully beef. The Red Horizon We carry an emergency ration of biscuits, bully beef, and tea and sugar in case of accidents. One Young Man The simple and true story of a clerk who enlisted in 1914, who fought on the western front for nearly two years, was severely wounded at the battle of the Somme, and is now on his way back to his desk. Here we are of course on war rations, cheese, bacon and jam, bully beef and quite decent mutton, and condensed milk. Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years Tables to be moved, kettles to be filled, bread cut, jam and bully beef tins opened! "Contemptible", by "Casualty" We flew to a window and opened it, changed our stockings, hung wet boots and socks over the stove, ate bully beef, and rolled up, pillowing our heads on our little sacks—thirteen sleepy people. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia Bill slept beside the corporal's bed, his head on a bully beef tin, and one naked arm, sunned and soiled to a khaki tint, lying slack along the earthen floor. The Red Horizon As regards "bully beef," this may be very sustaining, but it is a fact difficult to believe when having nothing else to eat for weeks on end. Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine Gun Squadron And assuredly, not one of us will ever forget the canned crab, the bully beef, the beans, and the roll of the Igotz Mendi. Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf' This generally consisted of bully beef made into a sort of stew, and some potatoes, stolen from a field near by. "Contemptible", by "Casualty" We ate bully beef and a huge water melon. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia I found him eating bully beef and biscuit on the parapet. The Red Horizon For days past we had been feeding on bully beef—bully beef out of a tin. Private Peat A bullet went through the elbow of my jacket, another through my equipment, and a piece of shrapnel found a resting place in a tin of bully beef which was on my back. Tommy Atkins at War As Told in His Own Letters We were relieved to see tins of bully beef and large hunks of cheese arriving in one of the cars the first day we drew rations, "Thank heaven that at least required no cooking." Fanny Goes to War Tea, bully beef, and our last biscuits comprised our dinner, which we ate in big gulps, after which we sang "Three blind mice" as a digestive. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia The cooks were busy making dixies of bully beef stew. The Red Horizon We had not been on this transport very long when we had our first introduction to bully beef and biscuits. Private Peat Private Plant, Manchester Regiment, had a cigarette shot out of his mouth, and a comrade got a bullet into his tin of bully beef. Tommy Atkins at War As Told in His Own Letters As everybody knows by now, rations comprise bully beef Spratt's biscuits—very large and rather hard—loaves of bread packed in sacks, bacon, jam, marmalade, Maconochies in tins, and, when possible, kegs of water. A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire At Caterham a robin has built its nest in a bully beef tin. Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920. Food was not plentiful here, all the time we lived on bully beef and biscuits; our tea ran short and on the second day we had to drink water at our meals. The Red Horizon About six o'clock that evening we got the customary—the eternal—bully beef and biscuits. Private Peat He used to fry it; occasionally he got curry powder from the Indians and persuaded us that the resultant compound was curried goose; but it was bully beef all the time. Five Months at Anzac A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force What a nice change from bully beef and biscuit! A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire Their staple food was bully beef and hard biscuits. With Steyn and De Wet To him it seemed there were only two alternatives for the beast: bully beef or ration allowance at three francs a day in lieu of rations. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 2, 1917 This is an English ration and after bully beef for weeks, it is a pleasant enough change. Private Peat We came across the Turkish Quartermaster's store, any quantity of coats and boots and bully beef. Five Months at Anzac A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force The Belgian bully beef is drier and tougher than the English. Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front There was great rejoicing in that underground Mess that evening; Burroughs and Welcome were f�ted on bully beef and condensed milk, and made honorary members. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917 The Transvaal Government provided a daily ration of bully beef and groceries, and the prisoners were allowed to purchase from the local storekeeper, a Mr. Boshof, practically everything they cared to order, except alcoholic liquors. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria The bully beef is corned beef and has its origin, mysterious to us, in Chicago, Illinois, or so we believe. Private Peat The bully beef reminds you of things, and the bread--well, the bread's all nice and white on the top. The Tree of Heaven I have eaten bully beef, which is a cooked and tinned beef, semi-gelatinous. Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front Now, the public were anxious to know the meaning of the corner in "bully beef"; but nobody could explain it. The Siege of Kimberley Their rations were very scanty: only one pound of bully beef once a week and two pounds of bread; the rest was made up with mealies, potatoes, and such-like—and not very much of them. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria Here he sat down beside a sentry, finished his bully beef and muddy bread, wiped his mouth, and remarked some ten minutes after the explosion: "That was a close one." Private Peat The strong steaming brew served to wash down the scanty supply of cold bully beef. War in the Garden of Eden When I passed through my would-be entertainer was eating bully beef out of a tin, with a cracker or two; and shells were falling inhospitably. Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front But "bully beef" was not reckoned just the ideal food for invalids; and wicked people accordingly found solace in suggesting that the military looked suspiciously well-fed. The Siege of Kimberley But after the Field-Cornet had given us some tea and bully beef, and courteously bidden us to share the shelter of his tent, I felt equal to further argument. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria After the rum ration we receive some tea and sugar, lots of bully beef and biscuits. Private Peat The "iron ration" consists of a pound of "bully beef", a small tin containing tea and sugar enough for two doses, some Oxo cubes, and a few biscuits made of reinforced concrete. A Yankee in the Trenches Then Captain F—— produced his box of biscuits, and from a capacious pocket of his army overcoat a tin of bully beef. Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front The Military Authorities had been commandeering goods of all sorts—"bully beef" among the rest—and storing them away in the catacombs of Kimberley. The Siege of Kimberley The Commandant then departed, to return in a few minutes bringing some tea and bully beef, which he presented to us with an apology for the plainness of the fare. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria About noon that day after the ration of bully beef had gone its round and we, in consequence, were feeling pretty blue, there was a group of us standing around doing nothing. Private Peat Or jam or butter or anything, except bully beef or Maconochie. A Yankee in the Trenches I had to be shown the way to use the bully beef. Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front We have had no fresh meat for a long time back, but one manages with an occasional change of bully beef or a commandeered chicken. In the Ranks of the C.I.V. You may imagine their triumphal departure from our trenches—loaded with cigarettes, chocolate, bully beef, and other imperishable souvenirs. All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand But even bully beef and biscuits aren't so bad, and our thoughts were not so much on what we were getting to eat as on when we were getting to France. Private Peat Also we were hungry, having had nothing but bully beef and biscuits. A Yankee in the Trenches Bread, bully beef, and a drink of water out of their bottles. On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles Soon shapeless heaps of blankets began to move down the trucks, muffled heads blinked out from odd corners, and gradually the Battery woke, and thawed, and breakfasted on biscuit and bully beef. In the Ranks of the C.I.V. A quid of Navy tobacco suffices for breakfast, and his only other meal consists of a slice of bully beef with a hard biscuit served on an inverted packing-case. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 19, 1917 Bully beef and biscuits at noon; bully beef and biscuits at our evening meal, and no sight of land. Private Peat He will regret this contract of his in time, as the food in question was bully beef and plum and apple jam, with an occasional change to Maconochie and apple and plum jam. Bullets & Billets There was bully beef, of course; that is the real staff of life for the British army. A Minstrel in France He was a genius at making miracles out of nothing, and his soups made out of bacon rind and old bones, followed by entrees constructed from bully beef, were a dream. A Surgeon in Belgium Upon the shelf she arranged a tin of singe—the French bully beef—a gilt box of powder, a toothbrush, a comb, a map, a packet of letters to be answered, and a magneto spanner. The Happy Foreigner "To live in Marseilles and be innocent of bouillabaisse is like having gone through the war without tasting bully beef." The Mountebank During this period, your rations consist of bully beef, biscuits, and water. Over the Top Anerley, with his head and arms buried in a deal packing-case, was working his way through strata of tinned soups, bully beef, potted chicken, and sardines to reach the jams which lay beneath. The Green Flag The soldiers had been living for weeks on hard biscuit and bully beef, and many were willing to pay a shilling for a small cake of bread. How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine The cans of bully beef flew under his fingers. Three Soldiers But they can go hang, says he with a wink, for me with their bully beef, a pox on it. Ulysses Dinner consisted of stew made from fresh beef, a couple of spuds, bully beef, Maconochie rations and water,—plenty of water. Over the Top "All the same, I believe I could consume a tin of bully beef and feel humbly grateful for it at the present moment!" The Lamp of Fate And here I am, and here I'm like to be, till the new moon in the heavens turns to a curly strip of bully beef. On the Firing Line With a delicious feeling of leadership, Fuselli divided up the bread and the cans of bully beef and the cheese. Three Soldiers Our men gave them bread and biscuit and bully beef. Now It Can Be Told The bully beef made me thirsty, and by tea time I was dying for a drink, but my pride would not allow me to ask my mates for water. Over the Top Tins of bully beef lay about, also, among a wreck of broken glass, some bottles of Bass's beer which had escaped their notice. Finished Carew remarked, as he wrestled with a tough thong of bully beef which yielded to his jaws much as an India-rubber eraser might have done. On the Firing Line A tin of bully beef, two biscuits, and a tin containing tea, sugar, and Oxo cubes. Over the Top Men sat under their own mud-bank and scooped out a tin of bully beef and hoped nothing would scoop them out of their bit of earth. Now It Can Be Told During this time he only gets water, bully beef, and biscuits for his chow. Over the Top When it is addressed to Tommy it generally means, a penny, biscuits, bully beef, or a tin of jam. Over the Top The mind was almost gone; but still he held fast to the edge of it, as he murmured,— "Some bully beef." On the Firing Line His rations consist of bully beef, water, and biscuits. Over the Top A concoction of the cook's which contains bully beef, Maconochie rations, water, a few lumps of fresh meat, and a potato. Over the Top This is confinement in the "Clink," without blankets, getting water, bully beef, and biscuits for rations and doing all the dirty work that can be found. Over the Top After accomplishing forty futile miles a day, after subsisting chiefly upon army biscuits and bully beef, they had earned their right to rest. 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