oat-cake

Bake, a barn has cause and more late oat-cake specially.

Gertrude Stein greenintegerblog 2008

Not one sigh, not one look back, not the faintest token of gratitude or regret at leaving those good people who had tended him for a whole year, buttered oat-cake for him, allowed him to choose each night exactly where he would sleep.

The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays 2004

'You will be restricted to new milk and Yorkshire oat-cake.'

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Bartel went into his little pantry, and brought out an excellent home-baked loaf; for it was his one extravagance in these dear times to eat bread once a-day instead of oat-cake; and he justified it by observing, that what a schoolmaster wanted was brains, and oat-cake ran too much to bone instead of brains.

Adam Bede 2004

I shall not be happy till I have made it up: I never am happy till I am friends with my neighbours; so to-morrow I must make a pilgrimage to Royd corn-mill, soothe the miller, and praise the grain; and next day I must call at De Walden - where I hate to go - and carry in my reticule half an oat-cake to give to Mr. Sam's favourite pointers. '

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Dinah did not sit down at first, but moved about, serving the others with the warm porridge and the toasted oat-cake, which she had got ready in the usual way, for she had asked Seth to tell her just what his mother gave them for breakfast.

Adam Bede 2004

Cowan Bridge (the clap-bread of Westmorland) as being different to the leaven-raised oat-cake of Yorkshire, and of her childish distaste for it.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

Joseph seemed sitting in a sort of elysium alone, beside a roaring fire; a quart of ale on the table near him, bristling with large pieces of toasted oat-cake; and his black, short pipe in his mouth.

Wuthering Heights 2002

Oatmeal porridge for breakfast; a piece of oat-cake for those who required luncheon; baked and boiled beef, and mutton, potato-pie, and plain homely puddings of different kinds for dinner.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

"You'll not give him up?" blurted Edwy round a mouthful of oat-cake, instantly alarmed.

Monk's Hood Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1992