It amused me perfectly to see W. with a straw hat, sitting on a rather rickety three-legged stool, eating bread and butter and jam.

It reconciles him to his lot, and sends him to his pillow, or about his labors, with a calm deliberate cheerfulness, very desirable to those who come under the law that requires people to earn their bread by the sweat of their brow.

Mr. MURRAY welcomed him cordially, and after building a "smudge" around him to keep off the flies, he gave Mr. P. some Boston brown-bread and a glass of pure water from a rill.

The complaint of the working-man, when really analyzed, runs down to this: I do income-work, but it does not bring me bread enough to live.

The farmer who threshes his own corn and cuts his own firewood has very likely a piano in his family sitting-room, with the Atlantic Monthly on the table and Milton and Tennyson, Gibbon and Macaulay on his shelves, while his daughter, who has baked bread in the morning, is perhaps ready to paint on china in the afternoon.

He took bread and blessed and brake and gave it to them and their eyes were opened and they knew Him" (St. Luke xxiv.

He will be here with General Lee, his chief of staff, and remain all night; so that you will be able to say when you go back Northsomething that few Yankees will be able to say during the warthat you have broken bread with the first President of the Confederacy.

It is the Adamistic philosophy, so complimentary to Eve, that leads us to expect that all housewives can turn out a product as good as that of an expert who has specialized to the one end of making bread, and who is supplied with expensive equipment beyond the reach of the individual to possess.

I'll beg my bread from house to house, if this fiend refuses me.

And so Adam addresses an exhortation to his Eve: "Don't buy bread, bake it; don't buy flour, grind your own; don't buy soap, make it; don't buy canned, preserved, or dried food, carry on the processes yourself; don't buy fruits and vegetables, raise them.

" Then a stout woman, who was cutting some bread and butter for the three children, intervened with an air of quiet authority: "You ought to take those materials away, Mademoiselle Cecile.

when the whole house wants bread!

"We cast our bread on the waters," she answered, "an' Providence jest kept a-handin' out the loaves."

In the military-schools the cadets got ammunition-bread, and lived like well-fed soldiers; but there was great outcry in the circles of Paris against the bread of the school of St. Germain's.

And on a hood or apron dines: He steals my little master's bread, Follows the servants to be fed: 20 Nearer and nearer now he stands, To feel the praise of patting hands; Examines every fist for meat, And though repulsed, disdains retreat: Attacks again with levelled horns; And man, that was his terror, scorns.

They travelled on for the space of fifty-three days, chiefly to the south or S.S.E., and frequently met with such miserable inns on the road, that they could not even procure bread at them.

First scald out a basin; then having put in some boiling water, throw in coarsely-crumbled bread, and cover it with a plate.

We carried him some bread and milkhe refused it, and said:'The less the better.'

Mary felt that she would rather a thousand times be poor and have to gain her daily bread, than that she who had nourished and cherished her should have been forced in her cheerful old age to think, before she chose to do so, of parting and farewell and the inevitable end.

This one blacked his shoes, that toasted his bread, others would fag out, and give him balls at cricket during whole summer afternoons.

A laborer can purchase no more bread with a dollar to-day than he could with five cents three hundred years ago.

Fry 1 onion in butter; add some soaked bread.

Nor can any argument be alleged in defence of such a law, that will not prove with equal force, that corn ought to remain in the same granaries where it is now laid, that all the markets in this kingdom should be suspended, and that no man should be allowed to sell bread to another.

The unhallowed thought arose, Where shall we find bread to feed this multitude?

The king of Georgia is called Pancratius, and is sovereign of a delightful country, which produces bread, corn, wine, cattle, and all other fruits of the earth in great abundance; and they train up their vines around trees as in Trebisond.