Then when she refused to exercise, she got nothing to eat but a glass of warm milk with a slice of miserably coarse bread Crumbed in, and the mountain air did make her hungry; and when she was ugly, she was left alone, absolutely alone in that dreary room, and even Lee, the Chinese cook, wouldn't look in the window when she begged him for something else to eat.
"Our Nervous Friends Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness"
Robert S. Carroll
If he kept her in view on the one hand and kept so much else on the other-the way he Crumbed up his bread was a proof-why did he hover before her as a potentially insolent noble?
"The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2"
Henry James
And then, when she comes home at night, Hungry and tired, with cold benumbed, How she would jump to find a bowl Of bread and milk all nicely Crumbed!
"Little Frankie at His Plays"
Madeline Leslie