'You don't know how to manage Looking-glass
cakes,' the Unicorn remarked.
"That's Christmas music," she said, when Aaron had ended, and had secured his piece of
cake again.
Good, plain, common cookin', Jinny'll do;--make a good pone o' bread,--bile her taters far,--her corn
cakes isn't extra, not extra now, Jinny's corn
cakes isn't, but then they's far,--but, Lor, come to de higher branches, and what can she do?
"I always do, if I can; there 's nothing I like better than to shovel in sugar and spice, and make nice, plummy
cake for people.
Of course the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger were still there, but they, having also eaten some of the
cakes, had gone to sleep at one side of the cave, while upon the other side stood the Sawhorse, motionless and silent, as became a mere thing of wood.
The girl separated a section of
cake from the parent body.
Gallantry claimed her once more; men came to see la Chantefleurie; she found customers again for her merchandise, and out of all these horrors she made baby clothes, caps and bibs, bodices with shoulder-straps of lace, and tiny bonnets of satin, without even thinking of buying herself another coverlet.--Master Eustache, I have already told you not to eat that
cake.--It is certain that little Agnes, that was the child's name, a baptismal name, for it was a long time since la Chantefleurie had had any surname--it is certain that that little one was more swathed in ribbons and embroideries than a dauphiness of Dauphiny!
She said we could have fruit
cake and cherry preserves for tea.
"He shalt have my
cake!" Bruno cried, passionately struggling out of Sylvie's arms.
The child looked up quickly from her
cake. "Why don't you kiss him?" the quaint little creature asked, with a broad stare of astonishment.
"There is one thing I like better than
cake," he said; "and that one thing is a plain explanation."
"Better beans and bacon in peace than
cakes and ale in fear."
