Very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple.
1 The crazy fellow was eating some ship biscuit , which lay in a basket.
2 Dring had some ship biscuit with him, in his bag.
3 This, with tea and ship biscuit , constituted their supper.
4 As was my custom, I had in the pocket of my singlet a number of ship biscuit .
5 There was a bag of ship biscuit ; we fried some hung beef, and made a jolly good supper.
6 When he seasoned them with some morsels of pork, substituting ship biscuit for bread, his repasts were fit for an admiral.
7 Half-a-dozen men sat at the tables, mostly eating ship biscuit of their own and goat's-milk cheese which they bought with their wine.
8 Now Washington, you get some ship biscuit , dried beef, and coffee from your stock in the galley and we will each carry our own rations.
9 The old hunter opened it and found it filled with ship biscuits .
10 Rosin, tallow, and ship biscuits , if destined to ports of military or naval equipment.
11 At supper-time Noddy took some tea and ate a couple of ship biscuits with a good relish.
12 They were frequently fed with bread made from old, worm-eaten ship biscuits , reground into meal and offensive to the smell.
13 Mrs. Lavarello brought us some ship biscuits , of which she got a bushel and a half in exchange for a goose.
14 It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits , and salted pork cut up into little flakes!
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