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Buying a loaf of bread is a cost to me, but it is income to the baker.
As Orwell puts it, one of them “bit hungrily into his bread,” and said, “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
The crisis began last December, when street protests erupted in response to cuts in bread and fuel subsidies.
The observation that what is collectively rational need not be individually appealing is the bread and butter of modern public economics.
That explains why Trump in 2016 won only 22% of counties where the organic greengrocer Whole Foods is present, but 76% of counties where you can eat corn bread and fried chicken at a Cracker Barrel restaurant.
Have a bite of pie!'Levin badly wanted a drink of vodka and a bit of bread.
What bread – wonderful!
She went to the table, smelt the bread and cheese and as the smell of everything eatable revolted her, she sent for the carriage and went out.
To mow or reap the rye and oats, and cart them, to finish mowing the meadows, to re-plough the fallow land, to thresh the seed corn and sow the winter rye – all this seems simple and ordinary; yet to get it all done, it is necessary that all the peasants, from the oldest to the youngest, should work unceasingly those three or four weeks, three times as hard as usual, living on kvas, onions, and black bread, threshing and carting the sheaves by night and sleeping not more than two or three hours out of the twenty-four.
When by the narrow footpath they had reached the unmown glade covered on one side by a thick growth of bright John-and-Maries, with tall spreading bushes of dark green sneezewort between them, Levin asked his guests to sit down in the deep cool shade of the young aspens – upon a bench and some tree stumps specially arranged for visitors to the apiary who might be afraid of bees – while he went to the hut to fetch bread, cucumbers, and fresh honey for the grown-up people as well as for the children.
He can see better...Shall I bring some more bread and give the laddie a bit?' he asked Dolly, pointing to Grisha, who was finishing his crust.
"But if one had bread!""True, if one only had bread."
As long as one has bread to eat one can live."
"Indeed, yes; if we could always get bread, it would be too good."
"Maybe, old man, but that does not give us bread.
She said the cupboard was empty, the little ones asking for bread and butter, even the coffee was done, and the water caused colic, and the long days passed in deceiving hunger with boiled cabbage leaves.
There only remained the end of a loaf, cheese in fair abundance, but hardly a morsel of butter; and she had to provide bread and butter for four.
Jeanlin had gathered up the fragments of bread and made a sop of them.
It was Maheude, who called out:"Take all the bread: I have some vermicelli for the children."
And when Maheu had told him the story he added between his teeth:"These men are eating the bread of girls."
Then she remembered that this youth, wandering about at night without a sou, perhaps had not a bit of bread.
She had already broken the bread and butter into two pieces.
He shrugged his shoulders with despair, and again bit at his bread and butter.
But he refused; it was quite enough to have taken half her bread.
"You must be about fourteen then?" he asked, after having gone back to his bread.
When she had finished her bread and butter, he would take her and kiss her on her large rosy lips.
Was it possible to kill oneself at this hard toil, in this deadly darkness, and not even to gain the few pence to buy one's daily bread?
One might as well die at once as go down to the bottom of that hell, where it was not even possible to earn one's bread.
Some of them had not finished their briquets; and the remains of the bread carried between the shirt and the jacket made them humpbacked.
During the last month he had given more than six pounds of bread a day.
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