As his lordship was never addicted to doing anything in a hurry, he waited, before obeying the order he had received, till he could get a supply of fresh butter and eggs and other comestibles on board.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston
He offered dried meats, tinned goods, crackers, cheese and other comestibles at several times desert prices.
"The Desert Valley"
Jackson Gregory
The fish was a most rebellious pike, and nearly killed every loyal subject at table; and then down the sides were various comestibles of chickens, with azure bosoms, and hams with hides like a rhinoceros; covered dishes of decomposed vegetable matter, called spinach and cabbage; potatoes arrayed in small masses, and browned, resembling those ingenious architectural structures of mud, children raise in the high ways, and call dirt-pies.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)