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  • Her drawer of chocolate drops and ginger-snaps; her dolls and picture-books, turn my study into a nursery.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • Her drawer of chocolate drops and ginger-snaps; her dolls and picture-books, turn my study into a nursery.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • Cookies, jumbles, ginger-snaps, etc., require a quick oven; if they become moist or soft by keeping, put again into the oven a few minutes.

    The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette

  • He must bake only pies and cake and ginger-snaps instead.

    The Nursery, No. 106, October, 1875. Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Various

  • At one end of this was the Inn, with a beautiful sign-board that creaked and swayed in the wind; at the other, Dame Fossie's shop, in which brandy-balls, ginger-snaps, balls of string, tops, cheese, tallow candles, and many other useful and entertaining things were neatly disposed in a small latticed window.

    Soap-Bubble Stories For Children Fanny Barry

  • So Roberta had nothing but ginger-snaps and Babbie solemnly presented each guest with a bottle of olives.

    Betty Wales Senior Margaret Warde

  • In speaking, however, of the tediousness I would not discourage the reader, for there are few more tedious things in cooking than the rolling out, making, and baking of thin cookies or ginger-snaps, and the result attained so inadequate.

    Choice Cookery Catherine Owen

  • Camp looked a little cheerless, but a blazing fire, started with dry stuff we had stowed inside the tent, changed things, and dry clothes changed them still more, and we sat within the tent flaps and ate ginger-snaps in great contentment of spirit while we waited for the rain to stop.

    More Jonathan Papers Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris 1917

  • His arms were long as a gorilla's and he had huge white fists with freckles on the back that looked like ginger-snaps.

    The Man from the Bitter Roots Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • Hilmer always saw to it that Fred returned to the office with something for Helen -- a handful of ginger-snaps from the free-lunch counter, a ham sandwich, or a paper of ripe olives.

    Broken to the Plow Charles Caldwell Dobie 1912

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