tollhouse

• “Beyond the tollhouse was a long, narrow road winding north and west through the forest and out to the main north–south trade route.”

  Simon & Schuster: Burning Tower

• “Back of the tollhouse was a neatly fenced garden, well filled with old-fashioned flowers; and, still farther on, a good-sized house, from which a box-bordered path led through the garden to the tollhouse.”

  The Captain's Toll-Gate

• “ At lunch, they ate peanut butter sandwiches and tollhouse cookies at the outdoor tables with the pigeons and the gulls and the big kids.”

  Fictionaut: Trust Walk

• “Clemens spent most of his time at the opening session observing a particularly ill-bred Washoe delegate, “Colonel” Jonathan Williams, eating an eighteen-pound raw turnip at his desk while simultaneously ushering through committee a sinuous new bill for a toll road that stretched conveniently from one tollhouse to another.”

  Simon & Schuster: LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY

• “She'd sent him a shoebox of tollhouse cookies and he'd never said thanks.”

  Fictionaut: Have You Seen Me?

• “Some bites taste like a tollhouse chocolate chip cookie.”

  Archive 2008-05-01

• “Private investors stepped in to fill the gap, building railroads and turnpikes—so called because travelers had to pay tollhouse attendants to turn pikes that blocked free passage.”

  Simon & Schuster: Interstate 69

• “If there were to be a national cookie election in the United States,most people would probably vote for the tollhouse, a/k/a chocolate chip cookie.”

  Tea and

• “The tollhouse cookie originated here, everyone loves it, and it was invented not all that long ago, by a known person.”

  Tea and

• “But when any sort of word, especially a word hitherto taboo and therefore noticeable, is scattered across a page like chocolate chips through a tollhouse cookie, a real impropriety occurs.”

  Wallace Stegner on Profanity

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