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  • If memory serves, McClure somewhere describes a polished concrete verandah the polishing was the first task of the day for a black servant in the old South Africa as being 'as red and shiny as a tart's toenail'.

    James McClure's Kramer and Zondi split up ... Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • This could simply be the power of suggestion, but McClure may have invoked the tart's toenail in this novel, The Gooseberry Fool.

    James McClure's Kramer and Zondi split up ... Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • The cucumber, tomato, pepper combination inspired this tart's creation.

    Groundwork: The word on cukes 2010

  • The tart's components can be made well ahead of time and assembled at the last moment.

    Le Bernardin's La Dolce Vita 2008

  • As you might be able to see from the photos, the pineapple tart's pastry is very fine and tender ... and, strangely, dry -- it is not in the least greasy, nor crunchy or cake-like.

    Archive 2006-05-01 2006

  • The big business of covering the pop tart's latest meltdown.

    CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2008 2008

  • As you might be able to see from the photos, the pineapple tart's pastry is very fine and tender ... and, strangely, dry -- it is not in the least greasy, nor crunchy or cake-like.

    Pineapple Tarts 2006

  • Why shell out the best part of £3 for a book of perfume ads which always include that scratch and sniff panel that makes the whole magazine smell like a tart's handbag, articles on clothes I will never afford and photographs of horse-faced stick figures?

    When did we become little girls? Ms Robinson 2008

  • Still, you're likely to get awfully antsy in spots... but just as you're about to nod off, Count Oblensky pulls down some tart's panties and the thing comes to life again.

    Shirt ruffles do not a gentleman make Arbogast 2008

  • Describing (daughter-in-law) the Duchess of York's bedroom: "It looks like a tart's boudoir."

    Annals Of Diplomacy: Open Mouth, Insert Foot 2007

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