barley-bread

She led the way in silence to the apartment which they had formerly occupied, and where there was prepared a small refection, as the Abbess termed it, consisting of milk and barley-bread.

The Abbot 2008

In the meanwhile, Catherine continued to place upon the table the slender preparations for the meal of a recluse, which consisted almost entirely of colewort, boiled and served up in a wooden platter, having no better seasoning than a little salt, and no better accompaniment than some coarse barley-bread, in very moderate quantity.

The Abbot 2008

A handful of dates and a morsel of coarse barley-bread sufficed to relieve the hunger of the latter, whose education had habituated them to the fare of the desert, although, since their Syrian conquests, the Arabian simplicity of life frequently gave place to the most unbounded profusion of luxury.

The Talisman 2008

Hungry I am, and sore of body, from my heels right upward, and sorest in front of my doublet, yet may I not rest nor bite barley-bread, until I have seen and touched John Ridd.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Rye and barley-bread was her lot, a great many potatoes roasted in the ashes or boiled and served with nothing but salt and perhaps a bit of dripping, and whatever was left over from the night before put into the ever-cooking soup-pot, sugarless tea made with yesterday's leaves, and a great deal of sugarless porridge.

Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

Barley is grown in much larger quantity than wheat; and barley-bread forms a principal article of food with the lower classes.

Travels in Arabia 2003

She squatted down beside Mag, and took the share of barley-bread the old woman offered, with a crude wooden cup of bitter-tasting herb tea dipped out of the kettle beside the fire.

Fiddler Fair Lackey, Mercedes 1998

His clothing was sackcloth, his food barley-bread, upon which he usually strewed ashes, and his drink was water.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

His coarse barley-bread he always mingled with ashes, and their quantity he doubled in Lent, though even then it must have been very small, only to serve for mortification, and an emblem of penance.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

The monks ate only coarse barley-bread, boiled herbs and roots, or barley-meal and herbs mixed, except on Saturdays and Sundays, on which {505} they were allowed cheese and shellfish, but of these the saint never tasted himself.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler