"White bread" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... however. Even the young polypus, when it is torn from the old one, bleeds a drop or two, they say. As he grew up, the great North glimmered through his thought, a sort of big field,—a paradise of no work, no flogging, and white bread every day, where the old man ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 54, April, 1862 • Various
... had seen anything except white bread. There wasn't a piece of cornbread or of graham anywhere. You know what their white bread is, too—heavy, sour, badly made and only half cooked. The old folks were satisfied, though, and there didn't seem ...
— The New Education - A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) • Scott Nearing
... hurried along, and found his old wife cutting up a huge loaf of white bread, mind you, not black—a huge loaf of white bread, nearly as ...
— Old Peter's Russian Tales • Arthur Ransome
... for his supper; What shall he eat? White bread and butter. How shall he cut it Without e'er a knife? How will he be ...
— Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 • Edward William Cole
... None of them fawned upon him, none bothered him with love, with his back to the fire, and he saw before him a row of brightly illuminated, cheerful and simple faces. They were all excited from drinking, but were not yet intoxicated; they laughed, jested, tried to sing, drank, and ate cucumbers, white bread and sausages. All this had for Foma a particularly pleasant flavour; he grew bolder, seized by the general good feeling, and he longed to say something good to these people, to please them all in ...
— Foma Gordyeff - (The Man Who Was Afraid) • Maxim Gorky
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