How To Use Hardtack In A Sentence
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‘Hardtack’, as the soldiers called this, represented the zenith of comestible durability and the nadir of taste.
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One and all, from the cook to Buckwheat, they swear they have no knowledge of any food for'ard, save the small supply in the galley and the barrel of hardtack in the forecastle.
CHAPTER XLIII
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The lightweight nifty centre forward found himself opposed by a rugged hardtackling centre back who asked no questions.
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With their brains we made a paste which, together with "hardtack," resulted in a delicious sandwich, resembling pâté de foie gras.
Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure
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Some of our first stores purchased were "hardtack" and corned beef, which we found we could procure from the steward of a Liverpool boat which was anchored off-shore.
Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure
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A loaf of bread, about three and a half inches wide and deep by seven inches long, was known as a "duffer," and a cracker as "hardtack.
With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon
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She wondered if this was what she’d read about in history books, what pioneering Americans had called hardtack.
GUARDIAN OF THE VEIL
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Hardtack had to be tough to withstand the trip.
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Hardtack is the most famous American Civil War staple food.
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During the day a line of men came single file over the hill near the camp, each bearing on his shoulder a box of "hardtack" or crackers.
Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865
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On the card was this message: "The Bible says, 'Love your enemies' -- here is an enemy for you to conquer," for it was a well-known fact that grandfather found it hard to overcome his dislike of the "hardtack," as he denominated the beaten biscuit prepared for him.
Grandfather's Love Pie
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odorous salt pork and weevily hardtack
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“A new delicacy I found out about,” he said, and looked sidelong at Picard, “called hardtack.”
INTELLIVORE
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In the same way, it is possible to become an expert on the apparatus of the old-time naval world — backstays and top-gallants, twenty-four pounders and hardtack — without having the faintest idea how to fire a gun, reef a sail, or fother a ship's bottom.
In Which We Serve
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Here, they sleep in bedrolls or in canvas tents, and eat hardtack and sip coffee heated over an open fire.
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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."
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Hardtack was one of the food supplies they packed because it could be kept for a long time without spoiling.