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An open confession's good for the soul, they say, and half a loaf's better than no bread, and you haven't violated your word a bit, and so let it do you good!" In fact, when Mary Potter grew calm, she was conscious of a relief the more welcome because it was so rare in her experience.
Thy price one penny is in time of plenty, In famine doubled, 'tis from one to twenty. Yea, no man knows what price on thee to set When there is but one penny loaf to get. Comparison. This loaf's an emblem of the Word of God, A thing of low esteem before the rod Of famine smites the soul with fear of death, But then it is our all, our life, our breath.
Me, an old woodman, that'd ought to have some sense. An' Eunice! Why, 'twould scare Eunice out of a year's growth to see me fetched home 'stead of walkin' there on my own pins. Half a loaf's better'n no loaf, an' one leg's better'n none. As for my plaguey old ribs they can take care themselves. But once we get there you just clip it to the doctor's an' have him come 'round an' patch me up.
Half a loaf's better nor ne'er un. The sad good-byes had all been said before that last evening; and after all the packing was done and all the arrangements were made, Amos felt the oppression of that blank interval in which one has nothing left to think of but the dreary future the separation from the loved and familiar, and the chilling entrance on the new and strange.
With the one we can't buy bread, and with the other we can't get work. I don't mind free trade not I: to be sure, if the loaf's cheap, we shall be ruined; but if the loafs dear, we shall be starved, and for that, we is starved now. Nobody don't care for us; for my part, I don't much care for myself. A man must die some time or other.
Considering this a favourable moment for the display of the valuables, Captain Cuttle advanced to the table; and clearing a space among the breakfast-cups at Mr Dombey's elbow, produced the silver watch, the ready money, the teaspoons, and the sugar-tongs; and piling them up into a heap that they might look as precious as possible, delivered himself of these words: 'Half a loaf's better than no bread, and the same remark holds good with crumbs.
Charles Fleming laughed. "They don't think we are good enough for their company," he said. "I'm not anxious for it," said Andy. "I like yours better." "I didn't think you could get away from work to come to school. Are you working for Miss Grant now?" "Yes, but she lets me come to school half the day. She's a bully ould lady." "Well, half a loaf's better than no bread. Will you sit with me?
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