Loaf

(noun.) a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape; 'meat loaf'; 'sugar loaf'; 'a loaf of cheese'.

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• On approaching nearer, Bella discerned that the refection had the appearance of a small cottage-loaf and a pennyworth of milk. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Priscilla leaves him out the loaf and some milk, when there is any, overnight. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The cherubic pocket-knife, with the first bit of the loaf still on its point, lay beside them where it had been hastily thrown down. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I sat down to my brown loaf, my egg, and my rasher of bacon, with a basin of milk besides, and made a most delicious meal. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I kept another small loaf, and a modicum of cheese, on a particular shelf of a particular cupboard, to make my supper on when I came back at night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Anybody could have bread for asking, and a loaf cost only three-ha'pence. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I ate them by two or three at a mouthful, and took three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket bullets. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The butcher and the porkman painted up, only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Turning to me, as she took some loaves from the oven, she asked bluntly-- Did you ever go a-begging afore you came here? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Loaves stuck on the points of bayonets, green boughs stuck in gun-barrels. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Again--these three white little loaves are for Monsieur Rigaud. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• However, a number of the laborers usually remain in the huts, loafing and fighting the animals and insects that seek refuge from the rising waters. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Our guards--two gorgeous young Arab sheiks, with cargoes of swords, guns, pistols and daggers on board--were loafing ahead. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• What Edison in Florida speaks of as loafing would be for most of us extreme and healthy activity in the cooler Far North. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Men talked, and loafed, and read, and smoked. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.

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