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• Look you, right in so far as the bread was the body, in so far also was the breaking of that bread the death of that body,--and no further. —  Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada
• The well-known cry of the giants in these legends Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum I smell the blood of an Englishman Be he alive or be he dead I'll grind his bones to make my bread is also referred to by Shakespeare in "King Lear," in Act III., Scene 5, when Edgar sings Child Rowland to the dark Tower came His word was still, fee, foh, and fum I smell the blood of an Englishman The English version of the story of "Jack the Giant Killer," must, therefore, be older than the time of Elizabeth. —  A History of Pantomime
• But this bread is the present Exposition. —  The Banquet (Il Convito)
• They haue also great store of cotton growing: their bread is a kind of roots, they call it Inamia, and when it is well sodden I would leaue our bread to eat of it, it is pleasant in eating, and light of digestion, the roote thereof is as bigge as a mans arme. —  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11
• In the voyage to Barbadoes he several times ate dolphin; he notes that the bread was almost "eaten up by Weavel & Maggots," and became quite enthusiastic over some "very fine Bristol tripe" and "a fine Irish Ling & Potatoes." —  The True George Washington [10th Ed.]

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