For Sore Throat rasher of fat bacon fastened round the neck.
"John Keble's Parishes"
Charlotte M Yonge
There had been no storm to tear away the sand and sweep bare the rock, to leave exposed tarnished old coins once cast ashore from an Armada galley; no serpula encrusted gem; nothing worthy of notice; and Wimble, with his thoughts turning eagerly now from the widow and her lodger to the toast and the rasher of bacon, he passed over his bachelor rival and stepped out till he came beneath the rocky point upon which Gartram had built his home, and was half-way by when a ray of sunshine flashed from something lying among the rocks in a little patch of soft, dry sand.
"King of the Castle"
George Manville Fenn
He is not of the rank for a twopenny rasher, or a wedge of cheese packed in old petticoat.
"Springhaven A Tale of the Great War"
R. D. Blackmore