From The Thirteen-Gun Salute, by Patrick O'Brian, p. 29: [i]...he went on to check their surgical instruments, the grim saws, retractors, artery-hooks, gags, leather-covered chains; and then the more massive substances such as portable soup, stored in flat wooden cases of thirty-six slabs apiece…[/i]
Apparently portable soup features regularly in his books.
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Date: 2017-01-05 09:35 pm (UTC)From The Thirteen-Gun Salute, by Patrick O'Brian, p. 29:
[i]...he went on to check their surgical instruments, the grim saws, retractors, artery-hooks, gags, leather-covered chains; and then the more massive substances such as portable soup, stored in flat wooden cases of thirty-six slabs apiece…[/i]
Apparently portable soup features regularly in his books.