bully-beef

He suspected horse, many times, but that was preferable to the slimy "bully-beef" which he also suspected to be horse.

Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

So they were lent two of my best camels (their saddle-bags tight with bully-beef and biscuits) and on September the seventh we went together up Wadi

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

He lit a fire of powerfully scented wood, and by its light we broke open bully-beef and fed ravenously; gulping down, through our food, bowl after bowl of the delicious water, ice-cold, and heady after the foul drink of

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

They got a cup of tea and a bully-beef sandwich from the NAAFI truck.

The Key to Rebecca Follett, Ken, 1949- 1980

They found Chelmsford's last camp on the following afternoon: the neat lines of black camp fires and the flattened areas where the tents had stood, the stakes which had held the horse pickets and the piles of empty bully-beef tins and five-pound biscuit tins.

When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

(The solder came from the melted joints of bully-beef tins and he dug resin for the soldering out of the pine trees-and when they were cut down, out of the resinous wood of the huts.)

THE GREAT ESCAPE BRICKHILL, PAUL 1951

They cut old food tins into sheets according to patterns and a team of solderers, drawing heavily on stocks of bully-beef tin solder and resin, got to work with home-made blow lamps and turned out little flat flasks by the score.

THE GREAT ESCAPE BRICKHILL, PAUL 1951

I joined him, and, following Hyldy in a cloud of dust, the runner informed me between gasps that it was "along of burning his snout-raking for a bully-beef tin in the insinuator."

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917 Various

My own idea was that Meddings the cook, the major's servant, and one other servant should bring up some bully-beef, cheese, and bread, and bacon and tea for the morning.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

For once in a way the dog neglected shells, and searched for bully-beef leavings among the tins thrown aside by the battery drivers.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols