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 Horace Petherick
Ray has, “’Tis safe taking a shive out of a cut loaf.”
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
Come now, another shive of mutton? well, then, a piece o’ th’ pasty—do!
From For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary by Horace Petherick
“It is easy to steal a shive from a cut loaf.”
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
The latter, in the latest discoveries of modern science, seem to have stolen a shive from the ancient loaf in the expectation that it would not be detected.
From Ancient and Modern Physics by Thomas E. Willson
