Biscuits

Examples

• 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.

Editor: Margaret