mince-pie

“This huge great ghastly automobile of a country seems just about to roll-over us all, and squash us into one enormous mince-pie.”

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

“This huge great ghastly automobile of a country seems just about to roll-over us all, and squash us into one enormous mince-pie.”

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

As I pause for a bite of shortcrust mince-pie, its spices kiss my nose; the rough texture contrasting with the keyboard smooth.

Sensory « First 50 Words – Writing Prompts 2008

Are you tender and scrupulous, — you must eat more mince-pie.

Representative Men 2006

Aunt Hester, who during the excitement had thoughtfully finished a second mince-pie, was smiling.

On Forsyte 'Change 2004

He said, however, nothing to the meat; but when his wife proposed to him that he should eat a mince-pie he resented it.

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

Jordas, and compelled Mr. Jellicorse to rest and be thankful for a hot mince-pie, although it had visited this eastern coast as well, was not deep enough there to stop the roads.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

But I never did enjoy a thing, that had found its way between my own lips, half, or even a quarter as much as I now enjoyed beholding Lorna, sitting proudly upwards (to show that she was faint no more) entering into that mince-pie, and moving all her pearls of teeth (inside her little mouth-place) exactly as I told her.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

And then I showed my great mince-pie in a bag of tissue paper, and I told them how the mince-meat was made of golden pippins finely shred, with the undercut of the sirloin, and spice and fruit accordingly and far beyond my knowledge.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

He forgot that nearly two centuries had elapsed since the fiery persecution of poor mince-pie throughout the land; when plum porridge was denounced as “mere popery,” and roast-beef as anti-christian; and that Christmas had been brought in again triumphantly with the merry court of King Charles at the

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002