sillabub

• “December 17, 2007 at 1:42 am sry, Ambercat, nawt pawsybl tu sai “fuxin yr persepshunz” in wun-sillabub werdz”

  Meeror - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?

• “Take two porringers of cream and one of white wine, grate in the skin of a lemon, take the whites of three eggs, sweeten it to your taste, then whip it with a whisk, take off the froth as it rises, and put it into your sillabub-glasses or pots, whether you have, then they are fit for use.”

  English Housewifery

• “We came presently to a little stone summerhouse or arbour, enclustered with leaves and flowers of ivy and convolvulus, wherein two great dishes of cherries stood and bowls of honeycomb and sillabub.”

  Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance

• “Mary Magdalen salvaged a fine china sillabub stand, with little white-and-gold covered cups on it, from”

  A Woman Named Smith

• “At a minuet or sillabub, poor Antoinette was unrivaled; and Charles, on the tightrope, was so graceful and so gentil that Madame Saqui might envy him.”

  Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1

• “Having employed about two hours in retirement, I sallied out at the first summons to breakfast, where our conversation with the ladies, like whip sillabub, was very pretty, but had nothing in it.”

  The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published

• “It nevertheless involved a charm, on which -- a devoted epicure of my own emotions -- I resolved to pause, and enjoy the moral sillabub until quite dissolved away.”

  The Blithedale Romance

• “We were just saying how nice it would be to have two or three pretty girls, and a sillabub, under those cedars,' replied Captain Bouncey.”

  Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

• “Hints that are not followed up; information not elaborated into a thin pedagogic sillabub or froth; seed that is sown on the waters with no thought of reaping; faith in a God who does not pay at the end of each week, month, or year, but who always pays abundantly some time; training which does not develop hypertrophied memory-pouches that carry, or creative powers that discover and produce -- these are lines on which such an institution should develop.”

  Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene

• “(also spelt sillabub) ` a drink or dish made of milk or cream, curdled by the admixture of wine, cider, or other acid, and often sweetened or flavored 'is a corruption (involving metathesis) of the Italian zabaglione, which is after all a pretty similar concoction.”

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 1

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