Liett, eating gruel from a wooden bowl the size of a bucket, dropped it on the floor.

He is sweet tempered, and likes to eat gruel.

I'm not deliberately going to volunteer to eat gruel for breakfast every morning for the next month.

At the time, the standard breakfast for the well-off was eggs and meat, while the poor ate porridge, farina, gruel and other boiled grains.

And he never ate icky gruel again, either.

He lives in small barren rooms, eats gruel for supper and refuses to light a warming fire because coal is expensive.

Now she's living in the attic, eating gruel and playing servant to the evil headmistress.

He ate thin, mealy gruel with them each evening, carefully dropping purification tablets in his water, and was rewarded with untroubled bowels.

The girls are waylaid and packed off to a sinister orphanage, where they manufacture soap, fend off rats and eat gruel.

Did one eat gruel while the other feasted on fatty desserts?