hardtack

How To Use hardtack In A Sentence

• “A new delicacy I found out about,” he said, and looked sidelong at Picard, “called hardtack.” INTELLIVORE
• Hardtack was one of the food supplies they packed because it could be kept for a long time without spoiling.
• Now, M-mv is not a recipe exchange, but perhaps you and your resident historians and/or LOTR fans would like to make some hardtack/lembas today. "I'm not hungry. Leastways, not for lembas bread."
• Here, they sleep in bedrolls or in canvas tents, and eat hardtack and sip coffee heated over an open fire.
• After all, I still had not really eaten for several days. Neither Zachariah's hardtack nor the captain's biscuits had been very nourishing. STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
• He and the crew have had to subsist on maggoty hardtack, cold gruel, and a slimy block of cheese that has become host to a most foul-tasting clutch of worms.
• Pinetop, who was leisurely eating his breakfast of "hardtack" and bacon, took a long draught from his tin cup, and replied, as he wiped his mouth on his shirt sleeve, that he "reckoned thar wouldn't be any trouble about finding room for them, too. The Battle Ground
• Starting at sunrise, we paddled and poled till noon, when we rested and ate" hardtack, "roast alligator (the remains of the white one), farinha (a kind of tapioca made from arrowroot, and one of the staple foods of Brazil), and molasses. Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure
• After all, I still had not really eaten for several days. Neither Zachariah's hardtack nor the captain's biscuits had been very nourishing. STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
• Water for drink, for fevered wounds and burning throats, they had in abundance; but the last "hardtack" had been shared, the last scrap of bacon long since devoured. An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier