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I gave strict orders that the reserve of bread-stuff, flour, and sheep was never to be used without my sanction, and that wherever possible food for the day's consumption was to be purchased.
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
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Further, the world loses all this valuable bread-stuff.
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I once knew a man who left his wife and children three days, without fire-wood, without bread-stuff and without shoes, while the ground was covered with snow -- that he might indulge in his cups.
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Huge groaning windmills, with tattered sails, guard the shore and torture the Indian corn into bread-stuff.
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On account of the high prices of bread-stuff in the market of the country, we have been compelled to sew a large crop of wheat, which is looking well.
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Our grain is used to poison; our bread-stuff is turned to the venom of asps and the bread winner is burdened with disease of drunkeness, where health should be the result, of raising that which, when rotted and made into alcohol, perpetrates ruin and death; Our garners or grain houses are spoiled or robbed.
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Wheat and rye of several varieties were raised as bread-stuff, barley and some other grains for the brewing of beer.
An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
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Corn has been used as a bread-stuff in the United States,
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges
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Formerly it was much used in northwestern Europe as a bread-stuff, but in recent years it has been in part supplanted by wheat and corn.
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges
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A small portion of this is used as a bread-stuff, but the greater part is used as horse-food, for which it is remarkably adapted.
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges
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