brandy-ball

Slop-sellers, brandy-ball and hard-bake vendors, purveyors of theatrical prints for youth, dealers in dingy furniture and bedding suggestive of anything but sleep, line the narrow walls and dark casements with their wares.

The History of Pendennis 2006

There was no way of telling if the shy young man and the girl with the brandy-ball eyes knew each other, or if they too were en route for Underhill,

The Return of Mr Campion Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1989

A vivid recollection of the girl with the brandy-ball eyes in the silver dress, her small pale face pale with anxiety, made up his mind for him.

The Return of Mr Campion Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1989

Mr Campion had been separated from Lance and was looking for him when he saw him in one of the cars, with the novelist on one side and the girl with the brandy-ball eyes on the other.

The Return of Mr Campion Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1989

Throughout the uncomfortable journey they talked in a desultory fashion and Mr Campion gathered that young Groome was in his father's firm of solicitors, that he was engaged to be married to the girl with the brandy-ball eyes, that her name was Patricia, and that he thought Christmas was a waste of time.

The Return of Mr Campion Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1989

Thus it was that Lance and the academician — now even more startled-looking than ever before — found themselves superintending the decoration of the great tree while the girl with the brandy-ball eyes acted as Mistress of Ceremonies for a small informal dance in the drawing-room, while the lady novelist scowled over the bridge table and the ballerina steadily refused to organise amateur theatricals.

The Return of Mr Campion Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1989

An extensive brandy-ball merchant in the neighbourhood of Oxford-street has called a meeting of his creditors; and serious apprehensions are entertained that a large manufacturer of lollypops in the Haymarket will be unable to meet his heavy liabilities.

Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841 Various

So to the station he strolled, with a brandy-ball in each cheek.

The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story Talbot Baines Reed 1872

Slop-sellers, brandy-ball and hard-bake vendors, purveyors of theatrical prints for youth, dealers in dingy furniture and bedding suggestive of anything but sleep, line the narrow walls and dark casements with their wares.

The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

Eglantine's usual morning costume was a blue satin neck-cloth embroidered with butterflies and ornamented with a brandy-ball brooch, a light shawl waistcoat, and a rhubarb-coloured coat of the sort which, I believe, are called Taglionis, and which have no waist-buttons, and made

Men's Wives William Makepeace Thackeray 1837