grape-nuts

Assuming the cast mantle of a famous craftsman, the name of a jovial monk, the unshorn locks of a poet, and the tripod of an oracle, he preaches a new and strange gospel, and with unquestionable good taste permits the portrait of his son, "food, principally grape-nuts," to be printed as an advertisement ...

The Joy of Advertising 2004

Assuming the cast mantle of a famous craftsman, the name of a jovial monk, the unshorn locks of a poet, and the tripod of an oracle, he preaches a new and strange gospel, and with unquestionable good taste permits the portrait of his son, "food, principally grape-nuts," to be printed as an advertisement ...

The Joy of Advertising 2004

Pittsburg, dined every night in his bedroom on grape-nuts, scrambled eggs and cocoa.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

The captain and his wife kindly sent us a bunch of bananas and a large tin of grape-nuts.

Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow

Breakfast: milk-coffee, bread and butter, and a boiled egg when in season, varied with grape-nuts, porridge, or occasionally fish.

Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow

One customer, from Pittsburg, dined every night in his bedroom on grape-nuts, scrambled eggs and cocoa.

Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

Able, too, but living on his nerves, wincing like a high-strung horse from the annoyances and disappointments of life, such as Quaker oats because the grape-nuts had come to an end, and the industrial news of the morning, which was as bad as usual and four times repeated in four quite different tones by the four daily papers which lay on the table.

Dangerous Ages Rose Macaulay 1919

Farewell, a long farewell to all -- thy grape-nuts. '

The Red House Mystery 1919

Full of palms, -- and grape-nuts, -- What you might call a real work of nature!

The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure William Bowen 1907

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grape-nuts on principle.

Heretics 1905