shive

Example Sentences

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Pray you, give me leave to help you to another shive of the beef.

From For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary by Petherick, Horace

“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

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

I’ll say aught you want me, and I don’t care what it is—that the moon’s made o’ green cheese, if you will, and I’d a shive last night for supper.

From The King's Daughters by Holt, Emily Sarah