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"Cake" Quotes from Famous Books

... and leave it forever; another was that she was a professor of religion, (so was Mrs. Bellmont;) but Nab, as she called her, did not live accord- ing to her profession; another, that she WOULD sometimes give Nig cake and pie, which she was never allowed to have at home. Mary had often noticed ...

— Our Nig • Harriet E. Wilson

... saw any harm in Uncle Pennyman's texts: they never worried any one but himself; though I must confess that verse about Ephraim being a cake not turned affected us a little. But that was because he had the ague, and Mr. Haines was attending some kind of convention; and what with the chills, and that unexplained cake of Ephraim's, we were kept a little uncomfortable ...

— Not Pretty, But Precious • John Hay, et al.

... and dazzling smile, she ran out to put the chocolate on the grill, and arrange the sandwiches and fruit and cake on the table around the bowl of drooping roses, and then, humming blithely, hurried into her own room to change from her heavy dress to a soft ...

— Eve to the Rescue • Ethel Hueston

... of currants, only when I dropped them Mungo ate them all up, except this one. He didn't eat this one because I stopped him. I said, 'Drop it, Mungo!' and he did. It was a good thing he didn't eat it, wasn't it? I made lines across, did you see? All across the cake! I made those with a hairpin. It was a good plan, ...

— The Professional Aunt • Mary C.E. Wemyss

... half closed, taking with the end of her nail a crumb of cake from his long black whiskers, but her little transparent nostrils trembled with a ...

— The Nabob • Alphonse Daudet

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