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Although they were welcomed by those left on the island, there was little food for so many mouths, as almost everything had been carried off by the voyagers, and for a considerable time they were forced to live upon a kind of seaweed called slaugh, which with the stalks of wild celery they fried in the tallow of some candles they had saved.

The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900

A weed called slaugh, fried in the tallow of some candles we had saved, and wild sellery, were our only fare, by which our strengths was so much impaired, that we could scarcely crawl.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

He set about colonizing the planet, calling it Proton, burning its forests and slaugh - tering its creatures.

Robot Adept Anthony, Piers 1988

Well, as Fergus O'Connor said when they sent him out to slaugh-ter a wild bull with a potato knife: 'Ye'll niver rayilize how I appreciate the confidence ye show in me!'

The Moon Pool 1919

It was cold slaugh, roast beef, and sweet potatoes.

A brief miscellaneous narrative of the more early part of the life of L. Tilmon : pastor of a colored Methodist Congregational Church in the City of New York, 1853

Eat slaugh and sea - weed fryed with tallow-candles, which we picked up along shore; this we reckon at present exceeding good eating, having nothing to live on but a quarter of a pound of flour a man per day, and what we can get off the rocks: For many days the weather has been so bad that we have not been able to stir abroad, though almost starved for want of food.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

We have found a new way of managing the slaugh; we fry it in thin batter with tallow, and use it as bread.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

"This is the first chance we have had since a lot of the little slaugh ter plants of old have closed up," said rancher Jack Varian, who until recently sold his cattle to feedlot operators.

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But there they met with 90 warm a reception, that after a prodigious slaugh - ter, with great difficulty they got back to the Janiculum.

Roman History: Translated Into English, and Illustrated with Notes, Critical, Historical and ... Livy, William Gordon 1813

The Austri - ans Betook Franckfort after a pretty smart engagement, in which a great number of French were killed, and ta - ken prisoners; and a report prevails that Custine had been defeated with a great slaugh - ter, and himself taken prisoner.

The Bee, or, Literary weekly intelligencer [microform] : consisting of original pieces and selections from performances of merit, foreign and domestic : a work calculated to disseminate useful knowledge among all ranks of people at a small expense 1792