gingerbread-nut

Daphne had still much of the child in her, and there was nothing she enjoyed quite so much as gardening with Mrs. Foster, and occasionally stopping to eat a gingerbread-nut, and hear something about Cyril and the brilliant remarks he had made as a child.

The Limit Ada Leverson 1897

My exemplars are the lately breeched youngsters with two pence in their pockets for the gingerbread-nut booth on a fair day.

The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

My exemplars are the lately breeched youngsters with two pence in their pockets for the gingerbread-nut booth on a fair day.

The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868

My exemplars are the lately breeched youngsters with two pence in their pockets for the gingerbread-nut booth on a fair day.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

His turn came at last; and so short and straight was the gallery, that he really did hit once the side of the star, and once the middle, and thus gained one gingerbread-nut, and three of the gin-drops.

Friarswood Post Office Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

There were the dates, both fresh and dried, -- far more juicy than those learned at school; and there was the gingerbread-nut tree, the dôm palm, that bore a nut tasting "like baker's gingerbread that has been kept a few days in the shop," as the remaining little boy remarked.

The Last of the Peterkins With Others of Their Kin 1860

Disraeli denounced, or Punch caricatured; if Sir Walter Gilbey's favourite collars (with the design of which I am unacquainted) had grown as large as the wings of an archangel; if Sir Walter Gilbey had been credited with successfully eliminating the British Oak with his little hatchet; if, near the Temple and the Courts of Justice, our sight was struck by a majestic statue of a wine merchant; or if the earnest Conservative lady who threw a gingerbread-nut at the Premier had directed it towards the wine merchant instead, the shock to Victorian England would have been very great indeed.

Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays 1905

I have a little boy, younger than you, who knows six Psalms by heart: and when you ask him which he would rather have, a gingerbread-nut to eat or a verse of a Psalm to learn, he says: "Oh! the verse of a Psalm! angels sing Psalms;" says he, "I wish to be a little angel here below;" he then gets two nuts in recompense for his infant piety. "

Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I. 1848