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Break bread   /breɪk brɛd/   Listen
Break bread

verb
1.
Have a meal, usually with company.





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"Break bread" Quotes from Famous Books



... gospel to teach the abolition of this solemn ordinance appears the very height of folly and ignorance. In the recording of the Acts of the apostles it is said that "upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them." Acts 20:7. The breaking of bread as here spoken of signifies nothing else but the ...
— The Gospel Day • Charles Ebert Orr
... o'er—and I do love the last Amen of all—went all we to dinner with Mistress Huthwaite, at whose house we do ever dine of a Sunday: and mighty late it is of a communion Sunday; and I am well-nigh famished ere I break bread. And for dinner was corned beef and carrots, and for drink sherris-sack and muscadel. Then, at three o' the clock, all we again to church: and by the same token, if Dr Meade gave us not two full hours of a sermon, then ...
— Joyce Morrell's Harvest - The Annals of Selwick Hall • Emily Sarah Holt
... with much unkindness. Stand with your face rather more to the light. Yes, you are strong and well. I shall not say how glad I am to see you; perhaps I should have done, if you had waited to break bread under my roof.' ...
— Thyrza • George Gissing
... go in and break bread and eat salt with thee," he said. "But I may do no more, for to-night ...
— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces • Thomas W. Hanshew
... Kerr they asked for, and the master promised to get it. 'He has suffered as we Friends have and still do, for we have no voice in the government of the country and can hold no office.' A girl came to the door who said supper was ready. The master rose to leave. 'Nay, thee must break bread with us; thee art a stranger in a strange land,' said the wife, as she took hold of his arm. The evening passed too quickly, for the master enjoyed his company. On rising to go, the Quaker told him he had a block of land he had taken for a bad ...
— The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 • Gordon Sellar


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