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Bovril   Listen
noun
Bovril  n.  An extract of beef (given to people who are ill).
Synonyms: beef tea.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bovril" Quotes from Famous Books



... guy in the mackintosh? Dusty Rhodes. Peep at his wearables. By mighty! What's he got? Jubilee mutton. Bovril, by James. Wants it real bad. D'ye ken bare socks? Seedy cuss in the Richmond? Rawthere! Thought he had a deposit of lead in his penis. Trumpery insanity. Bartle the Bread we calls him. That, sir, was once a prosperous cit. Man all tattered ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce

... the matter. I looked at my watch—just two-thirty A.M. No one appeared; and to my relief I remembered that this was just the hour when either Miss Hunter or my friend went round to the invalids, giving them milk or bovril, in the night. ...
— Seen and Unseen • E. Katharine Bates

... day up here amongst these horrible snows. The engineer comes in sometimes and makes me a cup of Benger's Food. For the rest, I lean up on my elbow when I can, and cook some little thing—Bovril or hot milk—on my Etna stove. Then I am too tired to eat it, and the sickness begins all over again. Oh, if I could leave this place! If only someone would send back my car, which has been taken away, or if I could hear where Mrs. Wynne and Mr. Bevan are! But no, the door of this ...
— My War Experiences in Two Continents • Sarah Macnaughtan

... moment that someone must have heard me, and must be coming to see what was the matter. I looked at my watch—just two-thirty A.M. No one appeared; and to my relief I remembered that this was just the hour when either Miss Hunter or my friend went round to the invalids, giving them milk or bovril, ...
— Seen and Unseen • E. Katharine Bates

... coming at intervals," he remarked. "I'm going to send you up a cup of bovril in a ...
— Mufti • H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile



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