1834 Knickerbocker 4 305 ‘Hail!’ said I, ‘thou pure, unadulterated substitute—Graham bread!’

1834 W. L. Garrison in W. P. Garrison & F. J. Garrison Life W. L. Garrison (1885) I. 428 If they are Grahamites we have a fine spring of water in our cellar, and plenty of Graham flour upstairs.

1859 Amer. Agriculturist May 150/2 (caption) Graham biscuits or bread.

1874 2nd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1873–4 509 Large enough to hold the flour, the meal, the rye, the graham, butter.

1882 ‘M. Harland’ Eve's Daughters xxiv. 443 Eat lightly—dry bread or biscuit, Graham crackers—anything that is easy of digestion.

1896 Godey's Mag. Feb. 207/1 When Mr. Dives turns from his recondite menu to nibble at wheaten grits and graham bread.

1947 J. Steinbeck Wayward Bus 220 It's got graham crackers instead of crust.

1957 G. Carson Cornflake Crusade (1959) iv. 53 They shared their beans, boiled rice, graham bread and puddings.

1958 L. C. Pritchett Cabin at Medicine Springs (1959) xiv. 118 Ma often..made gruel out of coarse graham flour.

1845 R. B. Todd & W. Bowman Physiol. Anat. II. xxix. 409 Oxygen being the lighter gas, a larger quantity is required to replace the carbonic acid; 81 parts of the latter will require 95 of the former to replace it according to Graham's law, that the diffusion volume of different gases varies inversely as the square root of the density.

1946 S. Glasstone Elem. Physical Chem. iv. 86 The results of Graham's law of diffusion have been used to determine gas densities by measuring the time required for a definite volume of the gas to effuse through a small hole in a thin metal plate.