Should I imprison you in some undertunnel, feed you upon stale crusts, until you enter that fact into your conception?

For the hard-up labourers toiling in the fields, gazpacho was a way to make something of almost nothing: a stale crust of bread softened by garlic, vinegar and a slosh of olive oil.

"The children did not see bread for three months," he said, as he pulled out a stale crust from his pocket.

Scattered about the room were empty flagons and tankards, pieces of half-eaten joints of meat, and stale crusts of white bread.

Eduin bit into the bread, finding a dense, chewy interior beneath the stale crust.

The bread was sustenance, even those tiny flecks of stale crust, that now chickens would reject as feed.

He dips a roll into the tea, hoping that it will at least soften the stale and hard crust.

The Detective says he has no choice but to force-feed Choubert a stale old crust of bread to help Choubert "plug the gaps in his memory," to help him remember everything about Mallot.

It smelled of slightly stale crusts.

All the others were distant secondstoo many desserts and not enough mouths to feed makes for stale crusts and hard cake.