soda-cracker

In the presence of Nathan Slate and Billy he was pretending to work, but his brain was as dry as a soda-cracker.

The Nine-Tenths James Oppenheim 1907

"But I thought that the Moon was a big, round soda-cracker," said

Second Book of Tales Eugene Field 1872

They assured Sweet-One-Darling that the Moon was not a soda-cracker, but a beautiful round piece of silver way, way up in the sky, and that the stars were little Moons, bearing the same relationship (in point of size) to the old mother Moon that a dime does to a big silver dollar.

Second Book of Tales Eugene Field 1872

Or inside the hotel where the only threat to the journalists 'safety was the possibility of choking to death on the Magdalo boys' soda-cracker snacks?

LuisTeodoro.com 2008

His keen eyes had taken in the various rigid details, from the flat steam "radiator," like an enormous japanned soda-cracker, that heated one end of the room, to the monumental bust of Dr. Crammer, that hopelessly chilled the other; from the Lord's Prayer, executed by a former writing-master in such gratuitous variety of elegant calligraphic trifling as to considerably abate the serious value of the composition, to three views of Genoa from the Institute, which nobody ever recognized, taken on the spot by the drawing-teacher; from two illuminated texts of Scripture in an English

Tales of the Argonauts Bret Harte 1869

"And after that we must invent a new dance for her, with colored lights and mechanical snaps and things, and have it patented; and finally she will get her picture on soda-cracker boxes and cigarette advertisements, and have a race-horse named after her, and give testimonials for nerve tonics and soap.

Cinderella And Other Stories Richard Harding Davis 1890