Marcella had taken her piece of oatcake and cheese at supper-time out to the door.
Things went from bad to worse, but they sat down to their meal of oatcake and milk uncomplaining, after a long grace.
It had never occurred to her that food could be a pleasure; it was just something that happened, a recurrence of potatoes, porridge, oatcake and broth.
Marcella gave her oatcake and milk and stood looking at her olive skin, her flashing eyes, her bright shawl curiously.
We back the oatcake and the porridge against all the wheaten messes in the world.
We swear by the oatcake and the porridge, the substantial bannock and the brose--long may Scotland produce them, and Scotchmen live and fight upon them!
He would have died any moderately painless death rather than say, "The oatcake and water-keg.
Yet though I was footsore, and had but a farle of oatcake in my pocket, I went not a warfare on my own charges.
He was taking a bit of hard oatcakeout of the basket of "farles" which swung from the black, smoked beam in the corner.
Would you like a drink of milk or a piece of oatcake before you go?
In the old English soldier thy brother appears: Here is gold in abundance, the saving of years: Give me oatcake and milk in return for my store, And a seat by thy side on the bench at the door.
The itinerant poor, who made the circuit of the houses, came again, and lifted the latch without knocking, and sat at the fire without being asked, and ate of the oatcake and the cheese.
Nothing but water, or at other times oatcake and one cup of milk.
Oatcake Linen, so called from its resemblance to Scotch oatcake, has been popular for screen panels or washstand backs.
He put several pieces of oatcake in her hand, which she received with a loving smile; and they set out at a walking pace, which Andrew made no attempt to quicken.
Her companion munched his oatcake in silence until it was gone, and even then he did not speak, leaving it to her to talk if she wished, or to sit in silence if that was what she preferred.
Her mother stood at the door with a white handkerchief in one hand, and a quarter of oatcake in the other.
Whisky and oatcake having been handed round, the bride, a short but comely young woman, set out with her father for the church, followed by her friends in couples.
When the bride reached the threshold she stood, and her mother, first laying the handkerchief on her head, broke the oatcake into pieces upon it.
The rye and the oatcake now become a kind of heavenly manna, or, as Fitzgerald has it, under such conditions the wilderness is Paradise enow.
Did you ever eat the poorest rye or oatcake with a beautiful maiden in the wilderness?
They held oatcake in one, and water in the other, as perhaps one might have expected, here where the men of the crew would gather forward.
There was enough in that great sea cauldron for two more such meals as this, and the oatcake barrel was full.
She set a plate of oatcake and a jug of buttermilk on the table before Neal, and bade him eat.
She had plates of curly oatcake and powdery farles.
And while the oatcake crackled and sparched and went black, he sniffed up the burning odour, and laughed and cried in the midst of the smoke that went swirling up the chimney.
Mounting a chair, she fixed one end of the string to the lath of the ceiling by the peck, the parchment oatcake pan, and the other end she tied to the stalk of the apple.
As we passed an open door, the pleasant smell of oatcake baking came suddenly upon me.
I at once felt much warmer, and I took half a glassful with some water and drank it with the oatcake and cold bacon that I ate.
But, holding on with one hand, she coolly took a piece of oatcake from her pocket, and munched it.
The boy sat down on another rock and hauled out a piece of newspaper in which were wrapped some broken pieces of thick oatcake and some rough fragments of cheese.
And she was sitting on one piece of rock eating cookies, and he was sitting on another munching oatcake and cheese, and he was saying, "I'm going to be an explorer.
Mr. Hall, who relished any homely innovation on ordinary usages, and to whom the husky oatcake was from custom suave as manna, seemed in his best spirits.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oatcake" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
