toffy

• “His native accent is a bit toffy, so he affects something a little bit more lower class to keep the populace happy.”

  The Fordification of Barack Obama.

• “Poirot gets involved with an investigation at a very toffy girl's school, and he doesn't really expect to get involved in international intrigue, but it doesn't take him long to work out something odd is going on.”

  Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Cat Among the Pigeons - Agatha Christie

• “Kate Masters was a jolly bouncing schoolgirl of fifteen, who was not too proud to eat toffy, and thought herself still a child.”

  The American Senator

• “They were forbidden, however, to go anywhere except on the down and into the woods; the village had been especially prohibited, where huge bull's-eyes and unctuous toffy might be procured in exchange for coin of the realm.”

  Tom Brown's Schooldays

• “From whence it being only a step to the toffy shop, what could be more simple than to go on there and fill their pockets; or what more certain than that on their return, a distribution of treasure having been made, the usher should shortly detect the forbidden smell of bull's-eyes, and, a search ensuing, discover the state of the breeches-pockets of Tom and his ally?”

  Tom Brown's Schooldays

• “While these worthies hold forth for the benefit of distant Missouri and Michigan, their colleagues write their letters, read the newspapers, chew tobacco, as little boys do toffy in England, and expectorate at leisure.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847

• “But the winter days were yet to come, though the cold autumn winds and falling leaves heralded their sure approach; and this evening Winnie and Dick were engaged -- not in wandering hand in hand into wonderland, but in the prosaic occupation of making toffy.”

  Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life

• “The young cook drew her slight figure up and said with an air of offended dignity, "I flatter myself that I am quite capable of making excellent toffy, Richard Blake, and am well aware as to the proper ingredients.”

  Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life

• “Winnie fled to the rescue of her beloved toffy, and seized the spoon from her brother's swaying hand.”

  Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life

• “I am sure this will be excellent toffy, but -- Dick, you shocking boy! whatever are you doing?”

  Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life

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