breid
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Ye see, I wasna that sharp-set the day, sae I had jist a mou'fu' o' breid and cheese.
From Robert Falconer by MacDonald, George
But I am just a serving lass, Wha toils to get her breid, An' O! ye're sweir to see the gowd I braid about my heid.
From Songs of Angus and More Songs of Angus by Jacob, Violet
An' fess a loaf o' white breid; we canna bide for the parritch.'
From Robert Falconer by MacDonald, George
It's lang since ye broke breid in this hoose.'
From The Guinea Stamp A Tale of Modern Glasgow by Swan, Annie S. (Annie Shepherd)
Meanwhile, his mother—good soul—not knowing well how to show the greatest amount of civility to her visitors, invited them, in homely phraseology, to "a sup milk, an' a bite o' breid an' cheese."
From Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting by Gilpin, Sidney
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