Loaves

Examples

• I ate them by two or three at a mouthful, and took three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket bullets. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The butcher and the porkman painted up, only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Turning to me, as she took some loaves from the oven, she asked bluntly-- Did you ever go a-begging afore you came here? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Loaves stuck on the points of bayonets, green boughs stuck in gun-barrels. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Again--these three white little loaves are for Monsieur Rigaud. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Lafayette and his troops turned out in time to prevent that, and timely cart-loads of loaves arrived from Paris for the crowd. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the supper-room of last night, a new fire, piled upon the feathery ashes of the old one, shone upon a homely breakfast of loaves, butter, and milk. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• All our meat turned out to be tough, and there was hardly any crust to our loaves. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• When flour and water alone are kneaded and baked in loaves, the result is a mass so compact and hard that human teeth are almost powerless to crush and chew it. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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