shive
Example Sentences
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“You just seat yourselves there under the trees,” she ordered them, “and I’ll bring right out a shive off a loaf of bread, and a tot o’ tea for each of you.”
From John and Betty's History Visit by Williamson, Margaret
There was a poor fellow breakfasting in the shed at the same time; and he gave the woman a thick shive of his bread as she went away.
From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Waugh, Edwin
The way 'e'd shive yer were sutthin' to see.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891 by Various
“It is easy to steal a shive from a cut loaf.”
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger
Ray has, “’Tis safe taking a shive out of a cut loaf.”
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger
