bonne-bouche

This is more a piece of entertainment than anything else, a bonne-bouche as our allies mistrusted as was accurately described in Yes, Prime Minister say over the water.

Water, water everywhere Helen 2005

If the prize proved a male, I received the feet and trunk, but if it turned out of the gentler gender, I was honored with the udder, as a royal _bonne-bouche_.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

In a moment I was invited to partake of the _bonne-bouche_; and so delicious did I find it, that, even at this distance of time, my mouth waters when I remember the forced-meat balls of mutton, minced with roasted ground-nuts, that I devoured that night in the Mandingo town of Kya.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

When the townsfolks had comfortably nestled themselves in their hovels, the old chief, with a show of some formality, presented me a heavy ram-goat, distinguished for its formidable head-ornaments, which, he said, was offered as a _bonne-bouche_, for my supper.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

Here, with sails loosely furled, and every thing ready for instant departure, he again laid to, awaiting the royal _bonne-bouche_.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

I cannot picture the hellish joy with which they passed from body to body, digging out eyes, wrenching off lips, tearing the ears, and slicing the flesh from the quivering bones; while the queen of the harpies crept amid the butchery gathering the brains from each severed skull as a _bonne-bouche_ for the approaching feast!

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

The Nagas, a hill tribe and not very desirable neighbours, practise the refined custom of starving a dog, then supplying it with an enormous feed of rice; and when the stomach is properly distended, killing it, the half-digested mess forming the _bonne-bouche_ of the tribal feast.

Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

Then came a few hours 'rest: and Chinatown was saved as a _bonne-bouche_ for the evening.

The Port of Adventure 1889

Longfellow, out of compliment (so he kindly said) to his English guest, had specially provided pheasants and Stilton cheese, among such more Transatlantic delicacies as wild venison (from Tupper Lake, in the Adirondacks), and canvas-back ducks from Baltimore; to say less of terrapin soup, whereof the unhatched eggs of tortoises are the bonne-bouche!

My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886

Eating what yolk or white they contained, they plucked and roasted the chicks as a "bonne-bouche."

Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland Frank Jardine 1880