sour-dough

• “Prince bared his womanly arms and kneaded sour-dough bread, casting, as he did so, many a glance at the three guests, -- three guests the like of which might never come under a man's roof in a lifetime.”

  An Odyssey of the North

• “He thawed some sour-dough biscuits in the oven, at the same time heating a pot of beans he had boiled the night before and that had ridden frozen on the sled all morning.”

  A DAY'S LODGING

• “When I started, I'd put a couple of sour-dough biscuits and some sow-belly in my pocket in case I might get hungry.”

  Bald-Face

• “They're the real sour-dough variety, you can stack on that.”

  THE STAMPEDE TO SQUAW CREEK

• “O Krogstad, you need me, and I-- I need you_, 'and you are over on the Indian River making sour-dough bread, and I shall never see you more!”

  CHAPTER 14

• “Can't lose no time with all that multitude a-rushin 'by," Kink spluttered, as he jabbed the sour-dough can into the beanpot with one hand and with the other gathered in the frying-pan and coffee - pot.”

  Too Much Gold

• “Their fare was monotonous: sour-dough bread, bacon, beans, and an occasional dish of rice cooked along with a handful of prunes.”

  Chapter VII

• “Grizzled 'sour-dough boys,' day-laborers at the mines but proud of their degree, either patronized the spruce-looking tenderfeet and lied eloquently - the”

  The Wife of a King

• “If there's one thing a sour-dough can do it's sure walk.”

  THE STAMPEDE TO SQUAW CREEK

• “This was the invidious distinction between them and the Sour-doughs, who, forsooth, made their bread from sour-dough because they had no baking-powder.”

  The Mad God

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