Biscuit

Examples

• He would have held them to Gerald, but Gerald so definitely did not want to be offered a biscuit, that Loerke, rather vaguely, put the box aside. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In order to get this off his pole, he would jog one end of the pole on the ground until the biscuit would slide off. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Chocolate, 1-2 chest best white Biscuit, 1-2 lb. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Every Tuesday evening there was lemonade and a mixed biscuit for all who chose to partake of those refreshments. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The crews were rotten with scurvy; there was little water and that bad, and putrid biscuit to eat. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Every biscuit or ham has been cut in two to find out whether the native has loaded it in any way. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Well then Thomas, curacao--and a little cake, or a biscuit? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It will bake pies, cake, biscuit, potatoes, roast meats, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Thank you, if I might have a glass of milk and a biscuit, I have no doubt that I should be better. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• That formed what is called a rubber biscuit, and he then started over again for his next five or six pounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They want some more biscuit. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I found him stretched on the sofa, breakfasting on brandy and soda-water, and a dry biscuit. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Beth clapped her hands, regardless of the biscuit she held, and Jo tossed up her napkin, crying, A letter! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The colours are usually applied to ware when it is in its unglazed or _biscuit_ form. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I tried the dining-room, and discovered Samuel with a biscuit and a glass of sherry, silently investigating the empty air. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Our visitor had consumed his milk and biscuits. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The cultivated rubber comes practically clean, but the crude rubber biscuits contain more or less dirt and foreign vegetable matter which have to be removed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There was a silence, wherein he ate biscuits rapidly, as a rabbit eats leaves. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I asked for biscuits, meaning such as we had at Boston: that sort, it seems, was not made in Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• We were given a suit of sailor togs each, a barrel of water, two casks, one of junk and one of biscuits, and a compass. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Soft, seedy biscuits, also, I bestow upon Miss Shepherd; and oranges innumerable. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• D---- your French, said the young gentleman, where's the biscuits, ay? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Why don't you mix your biscuits on the pastry-table, there? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Within, there were two glasses of rum and milk prepared, and two biscuits. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Then Loerke rattled the box which held the biscuits. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Up to this time, these biscuits, when exposed to heat, would become very soft and sticky, and when exposed to the cold, would become hard like a stone. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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