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  • On the following Monday when I went to the Lilas to work in the morning, André served me a bovril, which is a cup of beef extract and water.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • On the following Monday when I went to the Lilas to work in the morning, André served me a bovril, which is a cup of beef extract and water.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • On the following Monday when I went to the Lilas to work in the morning, André served me a bovril, which is a cup of beef extract and water.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • On the following Monday when I went to the Lilas to work in the morning, André served me a bovril, which is a cup of beef extract and water.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • On the following Monday when I went to the Lilas to work in the morning, André served me a bovril, which is a cup of beef extract and water.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • On the following Monday when I went to the Lilas to work in the morning, André served me a bovril, which is a cup of beef extract and water.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • Miso soup is basically Japanese bovril, but none the worse for that.

    Archive 2009-06-01 The List Writer 2009

  • Miso soup is basically Japanese bovril, but none the worse for that.

    How a fig seed made me eat miso soup The List Writer 2009

  • Bring with you four bottles of bovril, couple of pounds meat lozenges, half-dozen tins sardines, bottle of brandy -- yes, _and_ soda, as you say; couple of pounds chocolate, two tins coffee and milk ....

    Round the World in Seven Days Herbert Strang

  • "Yes; chocolate, bovril, the whole boiling; but --"

    Round the World in Seven Days Herbert Strang

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