weevilly

Ranging unstoppably across disciplines and topics, Fisher here sends up the "earnest addicts of stone-ground, hand-trampled, nature-cured and inevitably mildewed and weevilly buckwheat groats," a passage found in the chapter "J is for Juvenile dining."

The Romantical She Amy Finnerty 2011

The "bumboat," laden with delicious fruits and every kind of fresh provender to tempt the Blue jacket and hungry midshipman -- in my own days, utterly sick of the "salt-horse" (salt meat) and weevilly biscuit; but now, alas! the sailor is a spoilt child and quite daintily fed, hence the bumboat is not so great a treat to him when coming from "blue water."

Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux

You were strenuously engaged at that time in breaking down the weevilly traditions of a bygone age, and helping to create a new era in the art of steamship management, and, at the same time, studying for the Bar; and were I writing a biography of you, I would have to include your interesting travels in distant lands in quest of business and organizing it.

Drake Nelson and Napoleon Runciman, Walter 1919

'Stick sugar-mats and weevilly four-bins; and a breeding paddock of tarantulas and centipedes and white lizards to clear out.

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

And when we had sailed for weeks, and all our provisions were mouldy or weevilly, and our water-casks warped and leaking so that we had to catch the rain in our shirts, we began to wonder what it was we had come for.

Days of the Discoverers L. Lamprey 1910

Before the Encounter Bay incident occurred, the French sailors had expressed so much disgust with their putrid meat, weevilly biscuit, and stinking water, that some of them threw their rations overboard, even in the presence of the captain, preferring to endure the pangs of hunger rather than eat such revolting food.

Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia Ernest Scott 1903

Well, the man said, not unless you called tainted salt-horse and weevilly biscuit abuse; and then the captain sat down again, and I could feel his poor wife shrinking beside me.

Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance William Dean Howells 1878

That beset fortress had had no supplies since Rodney's visit, in January of the year before, and was now in sore want, the provisions being scanty and bad, the biscuits weevilly, and the meat tainted.

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 1877

So might Adam have looked back at Eden; Hornblower remembered the stuffy dark midshipsmen's berth, the smells and the creakings, the bitter cold nights, turning out in response to the call for all hands, the weevilly bread and the wooden beef, and he yearned for them all, with the sick feeling of hopeless longing.

Mr. Midshipman Easy Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848 1873

Bit of a middy, fed on salt tack and weevilly biscuit, talk of giving me rope's-end!

Cutlass and Cudgel George Manville Fenn 1870