When your beefs-guts are seasoned, fit them up and boil them.
"The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened"
Kenelm Digby
Away and ever away to the south, for the hated "beefs" were after them, coming down relentlessly from the north.
"Sketches of the East Africa Campaign"
Robert Valentine Dolbey
It must be pain and grief to the German men and women whom our clemency allows to occupy their houses, throng the streets and read the daily Reuter cablegram, to see this town, the apple of their eye, defiled by the "dirty English" the hated "beefs," as they call us from a mistaken idea of our fondness for that tinned delicacy.
"Sketches of the East Africa Campaign"
Robert Valentine Dolbey