shive
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“It is easy to steal a shive from a cut loaf.”
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
“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 Margaret Williamson
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
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
Only look you—” “A shive of beef, Sister?” interpolated Rachel, who had no notion of allowing the theoretical to take precedence of the practical.
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt
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