ship biscuit

How to use ship biscuit in a sentence

• They slackened their talk and began smacking their lips over ship-biscuit, marmalade, and tea.

  Tramping on Life | Harry Kemp

• We wound up the evening with ship-biscuit and brandy-and-water—ration brandy—French—superb.

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, No. 411, January 1850 | Various

• Hand me up a plate and a fistful of ship biscuit, and leave me to deal with 'em.

  Poison Island | Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)

• On the third day the white bread had become as hard as ship-biscuit, so that we had to break it up and soak it in water.

  A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy | Ida Pfeiffer

• Jim at this came running out of the cave with a face of joy, a bag of ship-biscuit, and a lot of other things.

  Robbery Under Arms | Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood