"Oatmeal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said Pepper, growing red, "I read once in a book that four thousand years of oatmeal porridge, three times a day, had wiped out every appetite and ...
— The Boy Scouts on the Yukon • Ralph Victor
... Gertrude, Millie, Jimmie and Judy? It would mean being friendly with them. Finally she ensconced herself amongst her Germans, feeling additionally secure.... Fraulein had spent many years in England. Perhaps that explained the breakfast of oatmeal porridge—piled plates of thick stirabout thickly sprinkled with pale, very sweet powdery brown sugar—and the eggs to follow with ...
— Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage, Volume 1 • Dorothy Richardson
... and nothing exactly like it will ever be done in England again. The lines of rail to be connected would have made about 400 miles in single length, the number of men employed was about 1500; and the time taken was two weeks nearly. Oatmeal and barley water was made into a thin gruel and given to the men as required. It was the only drink taken during the day. I had not a single case of drunkenness or illness. I have often heard these men speak with ...
— Railway Adventures and Anecdotes - extending over more than fifty years • Various
... pint of milk, with coffee, chocolate, or oatmeal: eggs and bacon, bread and butter, ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell
... all—yes, more—than she had declared it to be. The liberality with which she helped herself to oatmeal, her lavish use of the sugar—spoon, and her determined attack upon the can of "Carnation" satisfied any lingering doubts in Doret's mind. Her predatory interest in the appetizing contents of the frying-pan—she eyed it with the greedy hopefulness of a ...
— The Winds of Chance • Rex Beach
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