bread-crust

The lobby, with its thick pillars of porous Caen stone, its pointed vaulting, and a brown glazed-tile floor like well-baked bread-crust, is a combination of cathedral-crypt and rathskellar.

Babbit 2004

High forehead, hair the color of bread-crust, with an exaggerated widow's peak, pale brows above skeptical hooded eyes of cold green with an inner ring of amber around the pupil, thin-bridged nose, mouth habitually downturned so as not to give away the fact that the infrequent smile could charm and bedazzle.

Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

He had something more than a turnip and stale bread-crust on his mind, however.

Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990

He had something more than a turnip and stale bread-crust on his mind, however.

Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990

Their fingers, and their toes, just freeze on to rock; and they tear it up like bread-crust.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

-- [You should vary the diet with wheat, Indian corn, bits of bread-crust, bread-and-milk squeezed dry, with any kind of nut occasionally, and a few blades of grass or field weeds.]

Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

The lobby, with its thick pillars of porous Caen stone, its pointed vaulting, and a brown glazed-tile floor like well-baked bread-crust, is a combination of cathedral-crypt and rathskellar.

Chapter 5 1922

The lobby, with its thick pillars of porous Caen stone, its pointed vaulting, and a brown glazed-tile floor like well-baked bread-crust, is a combination of cathedral-crypt and rathskellar.

Babbitt 1922

The lobby, with its thick pillars of porous Caen stone, its pointed vaulting, and a brown glazed-tile floor like well-baked bread-crust, is

Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918

They roamed for a long time about the island without any success whatever, but at last the penetrating smell of bread-crust and sour sheepskin put them on the track.

A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889