"And yet the word he sent was most courteous," I pointed out, lifting the thick wedge of bread smeared with what looked like butter.

That sandwich might be no more complicated than thinly sliced turkey meat on bread smeared with mayonnaise, preferably homemade.

He went into the kitchen to make himself a cheese sandwich, but there wasn't any cheese, so he ate stale bread smeared with three-week-old butter.

It is served in a cast-iron casserole with slabs of toasted French bread smeared with aioli.

The men were issued bread smeared with butter and jam, as they couldn't get the field stoves started.

Pa am tomaquet, otherwise known as good bread smeared with tomato and garlic, was as it should be.

Pa amb tomàquet (bread smeared with tomato and oil, and sometimes garlic)

Aretha Mae handed out stale slices of bread smeared with congealed bacon fat.

A grimy, broken-nailed hand appeared in the window-hole, grasping a hunk of black bread smeared with greasy dripping.

He set the tray down on the table and she identified the predictable ingredients: coffee in a bowl and a hunk of bread smeared with honey.