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From now on they would be fed and clothed and cared for and protected: no more horsebread and hard cheese, no more sleeping in barns, no more walking the roads with one hand on her knife.

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

Two monks stood at a trestle table doling out horsebread and beer to a hundred or more people.

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

The prior would hire Tom to rebuild the church, they would all live here in this fine house, and they would have meat-bone pottage and horsebread for ever and ever.

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

Thrifty people had filled their bellies with horsebread and porridge before leaving home, so that they would not be tempted by the highly spiced and garishly colored confections on the food stalls.

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

Jonathan said: “And so they end up queuing at the priory gate for free horsebread and pottage.”

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

She said: “I come to see the countess, with a message from Earl William, and you would have learned that earlier if you had been guarding the door instead of stuffing your face with horsebread.”

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

The loaf was horsebread, made with all kinds of grain, rye and barley and oats, plus dried peas and beans; it was the cheapest bread, Alfred said, but to Jack, who had never eaten bread until a few days ago, it was delicious.

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

He found that their white bread did not keep the stomach full as long as horsebread; but even so he could not eat much of it today.

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

There he got horsebread and weak beer for supper, a hard mattress on the floor, silence from sundown to midnight, services in the small hours of the morning, and a breakfast of thin porridge without salt; and he was happy.

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

The stall holders were not all wool merchants by any means: everything was sold at a fair, from horsebread to rubies.

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989