I told Cap'n Sam'l that hardtack an' sech like wouldn't never do fer yer weak stummick, an' he promised me faithful he'd send somebody tew the mainland every day fer milk.

"Why, he's harder now 'n nails an' hardtack!"

A table covered with a cloth was laid around three sides of the room, and on this was spread hardtack and huge bowls of berries of different colours.

[U.S.]; cracker, doughnut; fatling^; hardtack, hoecake [U.S.], hominy

Pour into the meat can one man's allowance of tomatoes and add about two large hardtacks broken into small pieces and let come to a boil.

Or, having tried the bacon, pour the tomatoes into the meat can, the grease remaining, and add, if desired, two broken hardtacks.

Then he remembered the hardtack which Ken kept in the bow locker to refresh himself with during trips.

Kirk fumbled for the button of the locker, and found it and the hardtack.

He crouched under the tarpaulin, and presently he ate another hardtack biscuit.

There were loaves of bread that reminded one of the stories of hardtack in Cuba during the late unpleasantness.

Does it make a man an angel to eat hardtack?

There sat in the hall that day men who had given that boy their last hardtack, who had carried him on their backs through deep rivers.

A grim humor of despair suggested that at that distance, and in that blustering wind, the faithful maid-servant might have thought that instead of shouting that I loved my Bertha, I was asking her if they had plenty of salt pork and hardtack.

Next morning, January 1, 1914, we were up at five and had a good New Year's Day breakfast of hardtack, ham, sardines, and coffee before setting out on an all day's hunt on foot.

For use on the Roosevelt expedition I arranged a ration for five men for one day packed in a tin box; the party which went down the Duvida made each ration do for six men for a day and a half, and in addition gave over half the bread or hardtack to the camaradas.

Not a few of the injured had been furnished hardtack as well.

From moment to moment I stuffed my mouth with hardtack and pork.

Scattered here and there over the ground were the remains of straw beds; some brush arboursimprovised shelterswere standing; we found enough broken pieces of hardtack to relieve our most pressing want.

Our man was sitting in the road, and eating hardtack.

When I told about seeing the supposed dead man alive again and eating hardtack, Charley Wilson shouted, "And he got it out of that Yankee's haversack!"

Selánka, hardtack, and tea, with an occasional duck roasted before the fire on a sharp stick, made up our bill of fare while camping out.

After a scanty supper of selánka, dried fish, hardtack, and tea, we stretched our tired bodies out in the shallowest puddles we could find, covered ourselves with blankets, overcoats, oilcloths, and bearskins, and succeeded, in spite of our wet clothes and wetter beds, in getting to sleep.