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I hurried upstairs to give the WOK-makers their cream-cake tea, and spent ten minutes trying to relieve their monotony, which probably made it worse.
between silk and cyanide Marks, Leo 1998
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Once Molly paused, inspecting a small cream-cake in her hand with a grave air.
Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry
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A cream-cake and anything of similar nature should be eaten with knife and fork, never bitten.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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I get a cream-cake or some drop-cakes for dinner, but for a good while I've just paid a dollar a week for my share of the room, and bought something for breakfast -- 'most always a pie.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various
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He protested, with quite aggravating virtue, that it was as much as his place was worth to smuggle even a solitary cream-cake, and that for the future he must no more be the conveyor of contraband sweet stuff.
The Jolliest School of All Angela Brazil 1907
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Meane, speaking thick through a big mouthful of cream-cake.
The Other Girls 1865
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We have cunningly stowed the ginormous cream-cake with which we intend to feed the kids out of their reach atop a cupboard.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Why, if we wanted something, if we loved something - a mother, a cream-cake - why would we want too much of it?
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