bread-and-cheese

Perhaps he would renounce his bread-and-cheese fantasy in light of what he wrote about the virtue of temperance: “We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.”

Much Ado About Cheese 2007

As for that fair young creature, any change as long as it was change was pleasant to her; and for a week or two she would have liked poverty and a cottage, and bread-and-cheese; and, for a night, perhaps, a dungeon and bread-and-water, and so the move to

The History of Pendennis 2006

They now crossed Mellstock Bridge, and went along an embowered path beside the Froom towards the church and vicarage, meeting Voss with the hot mead and bread-and-cheese as they were approaching the churchyard.

Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

His feet were covered with peaked buskins of buff leather, and a belt round his slender waist, of the same material, held his knife, his tobacco-pipe and pouch, and his long shining dirk; which, though the adventurous youth had as yet only employed it to fashion wicket-bails, or to cut bread-and-cheese, he was now quite ready to use against the enemy.

A Legend of the Rhine 2006

His feet were covered with peaked buskins of buff leather, and a belt round his slender waist, of the same material, held his knife, his tobacco-pipe and pouch, and his long shining dirk; which, though the adventurous youth had as yet only employed it to fashion wicket-bails, or to cut bread-and-cheese, he was now quite ready to use against the enemy.

Burlesques 2006

She wanted it white and chilled with a musky aftertaste that would remind her of bread-and-cheese picnics in France.

In the Presence of the Enemy George, Elizabeth 1996

He exchanged places with Gwyna, driving while she rummaged around in their stores for something for them both to eat that was not bread-and-cheese.

The Robin And The Kestrel Lackey, Mercedes 1993

But he groped after her hand, then seized the slice of bread-and-cheese she handed him without looking at it, and wolfed it down without tasting it, his eyes never leaving the clearing in front of their wagon.

The Robin And The Kestrel Lackey, Mercedes 1993

She accepted bread-and-cheese with a nod of thanks.

The Robin And The Kestrel Lackey, Mercedes 1993

"You might as well eat something," Robin observed, biting into her bread-and-cheese with appreciation.

The Robin And The Kestrel Lackey, Mercedes 1993