bread

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Of this genus is that concealed motion which fermentation produces in the particles that compose flour, which, however scattered, however separated, unite, and form that mass which we call BREAD.

From The System of Nature, Volume 1 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

The poet's fate is here in emblem shown— He ask'd for BREAD, and he received a STONE.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James

The dame replied, in words discreet,    "We're not so badly fed, If we can make but ONE end MEAT,    And make the other BREAD."

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James

He has put on Bluebeard's finest dress… Enter BREAD, in the costume described above.

From The Blue Bird: a Fairy Play in Six Acts by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Dinner was almost over when Dan, still looking hungry, grinned and asked Dave if he was n't going to have some BREAD?

From On Our Selection by Rudd, Steele