Do we say bread or toast

bread 9765 occurrences

A row of thirty or forty mud huts composed the "bazaar," where, having succeeded in purchasing tea, bread, eggs, and caviar, we turned our attention to horseflesh.

Persian native bread is somewhat trying at first to a weak digestion.

Lunch at Mazreh consisted of damp, mouldy bread, and some sweet, sickly liquid the postmaster called tea.

Gerôme also carried a pair of bags, containing, in addition to his modest wardrobe, our stores for the voyagebiscuits, Valentine's meat juice, sardines, tea, and a bottle of brandy; for, with the exception of eggs and Persian bread, one can reckon upon nothing eatable at the Chapar khanehs.

Their food consists of dates, fish, and dhoura bread.

They subsisted on the produce of their garden, and labored for their daily bread in gladness of heart.

Bread is by no means the staff of life here, for meat and the great variety of roots and grain with which the country abounds, afford to the poor inhabitants an equally healthy and even more nutritious substance.

Large stores of fish are dried and smoked, and the roes, prepared like caviare, form their winter bread.

Bread-fruit and cocoa-nut trees are in abundance.

They are low and encircled by dangerous coral reefs; the soil is almost throughout exceedingly rich, producing with very little care, the banana, bread-fruit, and yam.

She dropped slices of bread into an industrial toaster, flipped and scrambled, stirred and buttered, served and cleaned with untroubled movements of her arms and hands.

He took aspirin and shuffled back to his mattress with bread and a piece of cheddar cheese.

Mo reached for a baguette of French bread and broke it sharply.

Fresh olive oil, Manoa lettuce, avocado, scallions, a hint of lime or maybe Meyer lemondelicious with the crusty bread.

But the services had not yet begun, and we went down among the rocks to eat our luncheon of bread and oranges; the ocean rolled in languidly, a summer sea; we sat beside sheltered, transparent basins, among high and pointed rocks, and great, indolent waves sometimes reared their heads, looking in upon our retreat, or flooding our calm pools with a surface of creamy effervescence.

"Allow me," said Mr. Raleigh, taking her plate and bringing it back directly with a wafery slice of bread and a quaking tumulus of jelly.

"Of course you eat jelly, because it is no trouble; you choose your bread thin for the same reason; likewise you would find a glass of that suave, rich cream delicious.

Here he sat, quite spent, staring before him until Sylvia returned from the kitchen with a plate of cold meat and some bread.

In a few moments she brought him a cup of hot coffee and a piece of bread.

Scarcely equal either, for the stenographer earned her bread and was technically equipped for the task, whereas Estella Benton had no training whatsoever, except in social usage.

The cook served them without any ceremony, putting everything on the table at once,soup, meat, vegetables, a bread pudding for dessert, coffee in a tall tin pot.

I suppose she's after Matt for some bread or something.

"Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?"Matt., vii, 9.

WOODWARD, HELEN Bread and circuses.

SEE Woodward, William E. WOODWARD, WILLIAM E. Bread and circuses.

toast 1461 occurrences

Ah, dear Fanny, you don't know how we poor students carry away with us to college some consuming passion which we feed and nurture;how we toast the Dulcinea at oyster parties, and, like Corydon, sigh over her miniature.

was the toast given and tumultuously drunk by this mad-brained company; and Brederode, setting no bounds to the boisterous excitement which followed, procured immediately, and slung across his shoulders, a wallet such as was worn by pilgrims and beggars; drank to the health of all present, in a wooden cup or porringer; and loudly swore that he was ready to sacrifice his fortune and life for the common cause.

John C. Calhoun, United States Senator from South Carolina, was at the head of the extreme State Sovereignty party, and at a banquet celebrating the birthday of Jefferson, January 13, 1830, he proffered the toast "The Union: next to Liberty, the most dear; may we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States, and distributing equally the benefit and burden of the Union."

The Mayor having made an address to Kossuth, closed by proposing the following toast: "HungaryBetrayed but not subdued.

The chairman also spoke eloquently in introducing the third toast, which was briefly, LOUIS KOSSUTH.

Our toast specially refers to the political exiles of Europe, but the truth is, that all the exiles of that continent are political.

A few minutes after eight o'clock, a large number of ladies were admitted, and the President of the Senate requested gentlemen to fill their glasses for the first toast, which was, "The President of the United States.

" The toast was received with enthusiastic applause.

The third toast was, "The Navy of the United States: The home squadron everywhere.

The fourth toast was, "The army of the united states.

The president of the evening then, after a cordial speech, proposed the fifth toast: "Hungary, represented in the person of our honoured Guest, having proved herself worthy to be free by the virtues and valour of her sons, the law of nations and the dictates of justice alike demand that she shall have fair play in her struggle for independence.

" This toast was received with immense applause, which lasted several minutes.

Nay, I know that even that which might seem to be personal in your toast, is only an acknowledgment of a historical fact, very instructively connected with a principle valuable and dear to every republican heart in the United States of America.

And to this nothing is wanted but to have that "fair play" to all, for all, which you, sir, in your toast, were pleased to pronounce as a right of my nation, alike sanctioned by the law of nations as by the dictates of eternal justice.

" The toast was received with enthusiastic applause.

The President then announced the next toast "The rights of states are only valuable when subject to the free control of those to whom they appertain, and utterly worthless if to be determined by the sword of foreign interference.

The music having ceased, three hearty cheers were given, and Louis Kossuth responded to the toast and the address in the following remarks, which were received with warm enthusiasm: Gentlemen: I feel sincerely gratified with the honour of being invited to be present on this solemn occasion, dedicated to the memory of a glorious as well as highly responsible fact in your history.

A toast complimentary to Governor Johnston having been drunk with great enthusiasm, the Governor briefly responded.

Lord Westmoreland told me that yesterday at a great dinner the King gave his household he gave as a toast, 'The land we live in, and let those who don't like it leave it.'

After the national toasts had been given, the first official toast of the day was, The Old Man of the Mountainsdrunk in solemn silence.

The next toast wasThe Jewish Sicarii.

The next toast was"The sublime epoch of Burkism and Harism!"

" At length came the toast of the dayThugdom in all its branches.

But the applause was so furious, the music so stormy, and the crashing of glasses so incessant, from the general resolution never again to drink an inferior toast from the same glass, that my power is not equal to the task of reporting.

Soon the prospective raid was the subject of open discussion,over the breakfast toast, on the street corners, in the camps and millsevery place.

Do we say   bread   or  toast