shive

Example Sentences

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I’ll say aught you want me, and I don’t care what it is—that the moon’s made o’ green cheese, if you will, and I’d a shive last night for supper.

From The King's Daughters by Holt, Emily Sarah

“Pray you, sit down with us, Mr Ferris,” said she; “we shall not lack a shive for you.”

From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Holt, Emily Sarah

The latter, in the latest discoveries of modern science, seem to have stolen a shive from the ancient loaf in the expectation that it would not be detected.

From Ancient and Modern Physics by Willson, Thomas E.

Come now, another shive of mutton? well, then, a piece o’ th’ pasty—do!

From For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary by Petherick, Horace

There was a poor fellow breakfasting in the shed at the same time; and he gave the woman a thick shive of his bread as she went away.

From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Waugh, Edwin