we also purchased a Small quantity of train oil for a par of Brass arm bands, and a hat for Som fishinghooks.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Mrs. Mann gave him a thousand embraces, and what Oliver wanted a great deal more, a piece of bread and butter, less he should seem too hungry when he got to the workhouse.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Presently, he returned, followed by the boy from the public-house, who bore in one hand a plate of bread and beef, and in the other a great pot, filled with some very fragrant compound, which sent forth a grateful steam, and was indeed choice purl, made after a particular recipe which Mr Swiveller had imparted to the landlord, at a period when he was deep in his books and desirous to conciliate his friendship.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

One of the strangers sat down on a pile of bricks, and beckoned young Kirby to his side.
— from Life in the Iron-Mills; Or, The Korl Woman by Rebecca Harding Davis

They laid a table for him at the door of the inn for the sake of the air, and the host brought him a portion of ill-soaked and worse cooked stockfish, and a piece of bread as black and mouldy as his own armour; but a laughable sight it was to see him eating, for having his helmet on and the beaver up, he could not with his own hands put anything into his mouth unless some one else placed it there, and this service one of the ladies rendered him.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Hatter [ Comes in with a teacup in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other.
— from Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Alice Gerstenberg

It was a pale olive-green, like the half-dry moss it was lying on, with a pattern of black and brown mottling along its back.
— from A Little Boy Lost by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

It was just when she had got this fancy picture sharply defined that she heard Esther say, as a door leading from the next room opened,— A tall, handsome woman smiled a greeting "Mother dear, this is my friend Laura Brooks, I've told you about;" and Laura, rising hastily, turned to see no trim, anxious-faced little person, but a tall, handsome, dark-eyed woman smiling a greeting to her daughter's guest over the pot of tea and plate of bread and butter that she carried.
— from A Flock of Girls and Boys by Nora Perry

The covers are put on by a boy.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

He came in with [Pg 44] a teacup in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

In the morning at breakfast, Frank took the cakes I usually eat to hand to me; and Clifton, whose watchful spirit is ever alert, caught up a plate of bread and butter, to offer me at the same instant.
— from Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

Of course the Piegans did all their trading at Benton, and every now and then a party of Bloods and Blackfeet would bring in a lot of robes from the north.
— from Jack the Young Explorer: A Boy's Experiances in the Unknown Northwest by George Bird Grinnell

Colebe had left his wife at Botany-Bay, and she came over to Sydney on the 23d of December, bringing an infant with her not more than two or three days old; the child was laid on a piece of bark, and both the parents appeared to treat it with great tenderness: they took up their residence for that night in Governor Phillip's house, and a family, who accompanied Colebe's wife, gave an opportunity of observing, that the marriage ceremony in this country, whatever it may be, is not very binding: this man belonged to the tribe who reside about Botany-Bay, but he had occasionally lived at Sydney for some time past, and a woman whose name was Mawberry , had been his wife; but, it seems, he had broke her arm with beating her, and had turned her away; and he had got another woman for a wife, who came along with him, bringing also a child about three years of age.
— from An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter

"Yes," said John, with a slight shrug of the shoulders, as he pinned a paper strap around a pile of bills and began to count out another.
— from David Harum A Story of American Life by Edward Noyes Westcott

In this way a map is a picture, or better, a bare outline sketch; and, as we can make out a picture, though it be upside down, or crooked on the wall, so we can use a map that is upside down or not parallel to the real ground forms.
— from Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Cavalry of the Army of the United States 1917. To be also used by Engineer Companies (Mounted) for Cavalry Instruction and Training by United States. War Department