During this time we never earned enough to pay for the salt which seasoned our insipid repasts.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
Cromwell being at the tiller, I told Billy Pitt to go below and get supper, instructing him what to dress and how much to melt for a bowl, for as you know there was nothing but spirits and wine to season our repasts with.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
It was also the most popular means of prolonging one's memory to bequeath a foundation for the perpetual maintenance of such repasts in honour of the dead.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill