She wondered if this was what she’d read about in history books, what pioneering Americans had called hardtack. From Wordnik.com. [GUARDIAN OF THE VEIL] Reference
With their brains we made a paste which, together with "hardtack," resulted in a delicious sandwich, resembling pâté de foie gras. From Wordnik.com. [Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure] Reference
Our troops carried hardtack and canned roast beef. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
I suppose it has got to be bacon and hardtack again. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference
They gave my father a box of hardtack and a lot of meat. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
Caudell choked down a couple of Yankee hardtack biscuits. From Wordnik.com. [The Guns Of The South]
Frank Frierson filled my haversack with hardtack and bacon. From Wordnik.com. ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference
Instead, I glumly took two rounds of hardtack from the shelf. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
My drinking water's running low and I'm almost out of hardtack. From Wordnik.com. [Go Where It Takes You] Reference
We halted, stacked arms, ate hardtack and raw pork, and rested. From Wordnik.com. [The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster] Reference
They still had some hardtack, but of meat and coffee there was none. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of a Boy Reporter] Reference
Kirby swallowed what must have been the last soggy crumb of hardtack. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
He simply took a case of hardtack in his arms and darted toward the trenches. From Wordnik.com. [The Rough Riders]
"It is not shoulder-straps (the officers 'insignia), but hardtack that we want!". From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
Dey wus fed a long time on hardtack and pickled meat, by de Yankees, while in town. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
A quick check showed that his rations of dried meat and hardtack remained untouched. From Wordnik.com. [Emperor of Ansalon]
As he scrambled along, he munched on a hardtack from the Yankee cavalryman's haversack. From Wordnik.com. [The Guns Of The South]
He handed over a piece of hardtack, flinty-surfaced and about as appetizing as a stone. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
Supper that evening was only dried fruit, nuts, and hardtack, for they dared not light a fire. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
Harris took a couple of squares of hardtack out of an oilcloth valise and handed one to Audubon. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Although given a few hardtack by her captors at the time of her release, she was getting hungry. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman with a Stone Heart A Romance of the Philippine War] Reference
He became quite a gourmet, while staying able to live on stockfish and hardtack without complaint. From Wordnik.com. [Two in Time]
Half the wagons laden with hardtack that had traveled the first stages with them had been captured by. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
'If we leave some fishlines out o'ernicht, we can make a better breakfast than salt pork and hardtack.'. From Wordnik.com. [Three Hearts and Three Lions]
"Whichever way leads fastest toward something to eat, besides hardtack and acorns," Cormik said forlornly. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
These rations are 16 ounces of bully beef, two hardtack biscuits, some tea and sugar in small wax envelopes. From Wordnik.com. [S.O.S. Stand to!] Reference
Dinner was meat hacked off and seared in the fire, together with plenty of hardtack and a fresh jug of mead. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
After plundering the haversacks of the black troops they'd fought, they had plenty of hardtack and salt pork. From Wordnik.com. [The Guns Of The South]
He let his fire lie, taking a piece of hardtack for his breakfast, distracted into hurrying by a sense of urgency. From Wordnik.com. [Emperor of Ansalon]
They ate a breakfast of hardtack and leftover soup — ignoring more of Cormik's grumbling — and discussed their plans. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
That afternoon we had just enough to allow each man for his supper two hardtacks, and one hardtack extra for every four men. From Wordnik.com. [The Rough Riders]
They all afterward partook of refreshments, consisting of molasses and water, -- a very great luxury to them, -- and hardtack. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
It was hardtack and it would neither break nor cut; so finally we marked it off into thirds with a pencil and each one ate up to his line. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Jaws of Death] Reference
Ah! There sat in the hall that day men who had given that boy their last hardtack, who had carried him on their backs through deep rivers. From Wordnik.com. [Russell H. Conwell] Reference
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