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Good ammunition-bread was worth at this time treble all these riches, and there came a time when they had not even horseflesh.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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The first generals of the army often dined on ammunition-bread with as much pleasure as the simple soldier, and on the retreat the misery could not have been more general.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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The corporal thrust his ammunition-bread into Lupin's hand; and he munched away at it as he sat down and said:
The Confessions of Arsène Lupin Maurice Leblanc 1902
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Good ammunition-bread was worth at this time treble all these riches, and there came a time when they had not even horseflesh.
Recollections of the private life of Napoleon Wairy, Louis Constant, 1778-1845 1895
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The first generals of the army often dined on ammunition-bread with as much pleasure as the simple soldier, and on the retreat the misery could not have been more general.
Recollections of the private life of Napoleon Wairy, Louis Constant, 1778-1845 1895
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The first generals of the army often dined on ammunition-bread with as much pleasure as the simple soldier, and on the retreat the misery could not have been more general.
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete Louis Constant Wairy 1811
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Good ammunition-bread was worth at this time treble all these riches, and there came a time when they had not even horseflesh.
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete Louis Constant Wairy 1811
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Your flomach makes your fabrick roll s Juft as the bias rules the bawl. »io That great Achilles might employ The ftrengdi, 'defign'd to ruin Troy f He din'd on lion's marrow, fpread On toails of ammunition-bread:
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779
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“I have been discharged, and I got nothing but a loaf of ammunition-bread and four kreuzers in money.
Household Tales 2003
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"Where am I to procure it?" answered Brother Lustig; "I have been discharged, and I got nothing but a loaf of ammunition-bread and four kreuzers in money.
Household Tales by Brothers Grimm Jacob Grimm 1824
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