Dinky-Dunk ever to speak of it as "sowbelly" or even as a "slice of grunt" again. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Wife] Reference
I shall never again eat meat that will taste as good as the fried "sowbelly" did then, accompanied by "flapjacks" and plenty of good, strong coffee. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865] Reference
"Better warm up the sowbelly and mash a few beans," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
“Better warm up the sowbelly and mash a few beans,” he said. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove] Reference
A surprised Bolivar watched the Irishmen put away sowbelly and beans. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
"We starve if we wait for that," Bolivar said, plunking a potful of sowbelly and beans down on the rough table. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
“We starve if we wait for that,” Bolivar said, plunking a potful of sowbelly and beans down on the rough table. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove] Reference
They had a little creek-bottom farm not far north of Pickles Gap, but the soil was poor and the family had little to eat but sowbelly and beans. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
I ain't sayin 'nothin' erginst sowbelly ez ther national food o 'ther plains an' ther staff o 'life in farmin' communities, but ez a steady diet it begins ter pall when taken day in an 'day out with nothin' ter wash it down with but weak coffee made outer alkali water. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong's Motor Car] Reference
She punched out flat rounds of dough and laid them in the bake skillet, shoved the skillet into the oven, turned the sowbelly, pushed it to one side of the frying pan, and then got the now partially thawed eggs out of the warming oven and broke them into the hot grease. From Wordnik.com. [The Dollmaker] Reference
When I started, I'd put a couple of sour-dough biscuits and some sowbelly in my pocket in case I might get hungry. From Wordnik.com. [Dutch Courage and Other Stories] Reference
"No, thank 'ee; I'm well lined with flapjacks and sowbelly, to last me till mornin'," replied the red-whiskered man. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Seekers of '49] Reference
A month with a bull train, and a diet of beans and sowbelly will put a linin 'in your in'ards and a heart in your chest. From Wordnik.com. [Desert Dust] Reference
If I do say it myself, I believe we've got as good a crowd of square, stand-up, trust'em-every - minute-in-your-life boys, as ever thawed hard-tack and sowbelly. From Wordnik.com. [Andersonville — Volume 3] Reference
So you'd better stick to mule-whacking and sowbelly. ". From Wordnik.com. [Desert Dust] Reference
"We hed a chuck wagon with us filled with flour, salt sowbelly an 'saleratus, with some coffee an' a few pounds o 'fine terbaccer fer makin' cigareets. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong's Motor Car] Reference
The beans and sowbelly had revived him. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
And we ate sowbelly and beans. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Julius Fry, August 19, 1974. Interview E-0004. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
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