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

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

“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

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 Willson, Thomas E.

“It is easy to steal a shive from a cut loaf.”

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger