The sun rises in the west, the moon's a paystreak, the stars is canned corn-beef, scurvy's the blessin 'of God, him that dies kicks again, rocks floats, water's gas, I ain't me, you're somebody else, an' mebbe we're twins if we ain't hashed-brown potatoes fried in verdigris. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A servant returned with corn-beef in tins, a bottle of port, another of cognac, and beer, blessed beer, to wash out from my throat the dust of an army. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Bible; that men have drunk wine yet not died in the gutter; that the capitalistic system of distribution and the Baptist wedding-ceremony were not known in the Garden of Eden; that mushrooms are as edible as corn-beef hash; that the word ❋ Unknown (2004)
"Why, mother, I put in enough for a wolf; three or four slices of bread, with as many more of corn-beef, some cheese, one of those little pies, and all that bread-pudding which was left at dinner yesterday -- he must have had enough." ❋ Frank J. Webb (N/A)
Westfalls -- dear no! -- that he had a genteel figure, my dear, for all he had developed a somewhat corpulent tendency in later years; that the corn-beef which mother procured was highly superior to those portions of salted quadruped which Johnny obtained in the village -- and facts of similar irrelevancy. ❋ Leona Dalrymple (N/A)
Diane had heard of the corn-beef and father's corpulency before, but she was now somewhat gentler and less impatient and checked the old careless flashes of annoyance. ❋ Leona Dalrymple (N/A)
The Army Service Corps constructed a magnificent work with mealy-bags and corn-beef cases -- a perfect palace of security. ❋ Henry W. Nevinson (1900)
Tom detested quick-lunch places where the steam satisfied a man's hunger, the moment he came in contact with its heavy odors, but he reveled in this evening's opportunity to be a martyr, so he sat down and ordered corn-beef and cabbage because he loathed it. ❋ Lillian Elizabeth Roy (1900)
Our daily rations from the Commissary was a quart of rice or hard-tack, and a half pound of salt pork or corn-beef. ❋ Stroyer, Jacob, 1849-1908 (1898)
As thrue as that y'r corn-beef from y'r commysariat tins gives William ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
The sun rises in the west, the moon's a pay-streak, the stars is canned corn-beef, scurvy's the blessin 'of ❋ Jack London (1896)
Cold corn-pone, cold corn-beef, butter and buttermilk -- that is what they had for me down there, and there ain't nothing better that ever I've come across yet. ❋ Unknown (1884)
These were carefully laid on the grass to keep till wanted: buttered biscuit came next -- three apiece, with slices of cold lamb laid in between; and last of all were a dozen hard-boiled eggs, and a layer of thick bread and butter sandwiched with corn-beef. ❋ Susan Coolidge (1870)
