The larder, to his knowledge, contained but the rusty end of a flitch of green bacon-that, and perhaps a couple of rusty eggs, a loaf, and some salt butter.
"Major Vigoureux"
A. T. Quiller-Couch
Or, "Joseph has took in another flitch this very day, sir, as Mrs. Smith sent for, and the old flitch all cut to waste.
"The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers"
Mary Cholmondeley
The Dunmow flitch is a well-known matrimonial prize for happy couples who have never quarrelled during the first year of their wedded life; while a Skimmerton expresses popular indignation against quarrelsome or licentious husbands and wives.
"Vanishing England"
P. H. Ditchfield