Sentence examples for bully beef from inspiring English sources

My ex-husband was equally smitten, owning 75 bully beef tin openers shaped like cattle, and almost 200 blue and white Staffordshire meat platters.

German beer, sausages and spiked helmets were given, or bartered, in return for bully beef, biscuits and tunic buttons.A different ball gameThe game they played was, Mr Felstead recalled, a rough sort of soccer.

The Brits gave the survivors their bully beef from army rations, skimmed milk and what they called Bengal Famine Mixture, based on rice and sugar, but these proved too rich for the starving inmates.

Bully beef and ship's biscuits, derived from the rations of U.S. soldiers stationed in New Guinea during the Second World War, still feature prominently in the local diet, and Weiblen was looking for treats to break the monotony.

From 1939 to 1945, she had done her bit for victory by pickling eggs and onions, bottling fruit, drying or salting beans and trading black-market tins of bully beef.

In his kit-bag, along with his bayonet, his ammunition, his gas-mask and spare clothes 60 pounds of gear, which made the men look like hermit crabs, Mr Allingham said, when they moved from trench to trench was tinned stew, bully beef and square white HP biscuits so hard that they were often thrown away.

I am continuing non-stop because I am happy at sea, and perhaps because I want to save my soul .It was left to a bully-beef and tinned-sausages man, Robin Knox-Johnston, in his plodding but solid Suhaili, now in the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, to become the first non-stop circumnavigator: "by rights", he had said, the honour must fall to a Briton.

However, the truth of the accounts has been disputed by some historians; in 1984, Malcolm Brown and Shirley Seaton concluded that there were probably attempts to play organised matches which failed due to the state of the ground, but that the contemporary reports were either hearsay or refer to 'kick-about' matches with 'made-up footballs' such as a bully-beef tin.

Step 8. Marinated, the vinegar will have now bullied your beef into tasty submission.

If Napoleon Bonaparte's maxim that "an army marches on its stomach" is true then the British Army marched on biscuits and bully [corned] beef.

Pretty turns of phrase like "fire away, Fagan, and Bully for you," and "beef as salt as Lot's wife's chin" are lovely details.