gruel

• The rest of the gruel could be dumped or frozen as a mushroomy stock. —  The Cottage Smallholder
• In my last lucubration I proposed the general use of water-gruel, and hinted that it might not be amiss at this very season: but as there are some, whose cases, in regard to their families, will not admit of delay, I have used my interest in several wards of the city, that the wholesome restorative above-mentioned may be given in tavern kitchens to all the mornings draught-men within the walls when they call for wine before noon 19. —  The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant
• And the wife prepared bowls full of rice-gruel, and every one, children and all, ate the rice-gruel till the skins on their stomachs felt quite tight. —  Deccan Nursery Tales
• They fed me on water-gruel, and I speedily became a skeleton above ground. —  The Blithedale Romance
• Beside the gruel was a tin pannikin of cold water which the boy Abe fetched every hour from the spring. —  The Path of the King

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