blanc-mange

“Certainly, Doctor Murray,” Miss Farnham said, her face as bland as blanc-mange.

Darlene's Digest Darlene 2009

“Certainly, Doctor Murray,” Miss Farnham said, her face as bland as blanc-mange.

Archive 2009-01-01 Darlene 2009

Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.

<a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2007/02/thats-not-funny-snickers.html" title="That's not funny! Ann Althouse 2007

Whenever, for my part, I see the head man particularly anxious to ESCAMOTER a fricandeau or a blanc-mange, I always call out, and insist upon massacring it with a spoon.

The Book of Snobs 2006

The names, as usual, are often misleading, as in blanc manger, which is very different from our blanc-mange; and the receipt for “goose in a hog pot” leaves one in doubt as to its adaptability to the modern palate.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

Rakitin related afterwards that there were five dishes: fish-soup made of sterlets, served with little fish patties; then boiled fish served in a special way; then salmon cutlets, ice pudding and compote, and finally, blanc-mange.

The Brothers Karamazov 2003

I then stroll round to see if there is anything to be seen, but the scenery is much like that you would enjoy if you were inside a blanc-mange.

Travels in West Africa 2003

You look quivery like a blanc-mange before a firing squad.

The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

We visited the poor creature several times again, and once Mrs. Wilson accompanied me and brought with her some blanc-mange or jelly which she had made.

Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians Edward Francis Wilson

_Small Boy_ (_toying with dull blanc-mange_): "Please may I have an ice instead of finishing this -- 'cos I feel sick?"

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