bread (n.)
- alimentation
- alimony
- board
- boodle
- brass
- bucks
- cabbage
- care
- cash
- cheer
- chips
- chow
- coin
- consubstantiation
- crust
- cuisine
- dinero
- dough
- eats
- elements
- endowment
- fare
- feast
- feed
- food
- foodstuff
- gelt
- gilt
- grease
- green
- grub
- ingesta
- jack
- kale
- keep
- livelihood
- living
- loaf
- maintenance
- manna
- matzo
- meat
- moolah
- nourishment
- nurture
- ointment
- oof
- pain
- pita
- provender
- provision
- provisions
- pumpernickel
- rhino
- rocks
- shekels
- simoleons
- spread
- subsidization
- subsidy
- subsistence
- subvention
- sugar
- support
- sustainment
- sustenance
- sustentation
- table
- tack
- tin
- toast
- transubstantiation
- tucker
- upkeep
- viands
- victuals
- wafer
- wampum
bread (v.)
bread (adj.)
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.
It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."
Better is halfe a lofe than no bread.
Give me again my hollow tree,
A crust of bread, and liberty.
Who with a body filled and vacant mind
Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread.
He thought it happier to be dead,
To die for Beauty, than live for bread.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
O, monstrous! but one half-pennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!
He was the Word, that spake it:
He took the bread and brake it;
And what that Word did make it,
I do believe and take it.
Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him."
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
In the one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread in the other.
Who never ate his bread in sorrow,
Who never spent the darksome hours
Weeping, and watching for the morrow,—
He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.
I know on which side my bread is buttred.
Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore called the staff of life.
Bread is the staff of life.
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
Man doth not live by bread only.
Man shall not live by bread alone.
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Eating the bitter bread of banishment.
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
O God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap!
Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.
The stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
And Katerfelto, with his hair on end
At his own wonders, wondering for his bread.
'T is pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat,
To peep at such a world,—to see the stir
Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd.
