1 White flour was scarce and so expensive that corn bread was universal instead of biscuits, rolls and waffles.
2 Beef, pork and butter cost thirty-five dollars a pound, flour fourteen hundred dollars a barrel, soda one hundred dollars a pound, tea five hundred dollars a pound.
3 One old man struggled along with a small barrel of flour on a wheelbarrow.
4 And the flour and rice and dried peas.
5 The flour and pork alone cost thirty dollars last month.
6 There was an open barrel of cornmeal on the floor, a small sack of flour, a pound of coffee, a little sugar, a gallon jug of sorghum and two hams.
7 She had found that staple groceries, sugar, flour, could be most cheaply purchased at Axel Egge's rustic general store.
8 I know something about wheat from my farming, and I worked a couple of months in the flour mill at Curlew when I got sick of tailoring.
9 In one there were some potatoes that had been frozen and were rotting, in the other was a little pile of flour.
10 As we rose to go, she opened her wooden chest and brought out a bag made of bed-ticking, about as long as a flour sack and half as wide, stuffed full of something.
11 Two mutton-chops, three potatoes, some split peas, a little flour, two ounces of butter, a pinch of salt, and all this black pepper.
12 The children especially going to school, the bluish doves flying down from the roofs to the pavement, and the little loaves covered with flour, thrust out by an unseen hand, touched him.
13 And he related how a peasant had stolen some flour from the miller, and when the miller told him of it, had lodged a complaint for slander.
14 Then she turned upon him a back that was smeared with flour and had a long slit in the lower portion of its covering.
15 Labour should be kept in active operation, and, even as, in a mill, flour comes flowing from grain, so should cash, and yet more cash, come flowing from every atom of refuse and remnant.