A braggart, a bigot, sometimes even a hardtack cracker, he is as incompetent in business as he is ruthless. |
And how I gormandize on hardtack baked in the first place for the Revolutioners, and kept over ever since. |
Both sides were starving, the one for tobacco and the other for hardtack and bacon. |
But he had already chucked his share of stockfish and hardtack, to the laughter of Svearek's men, when the gale started. |
I assure you I shall appreciate anything from hardtack to bisque ice-cream. |
If it was too wet to light a fire, they had to subsist on hardtack biscuits and cold sowbelly doused in vinegar. |