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Examples

  • The white chocolate ginger-bread house was breath-taking to say the least!

    Making of a White House Christmas 2009

  • Fine ginger-bread she made every week, as Mr. Goon very well knew.

    Separate Douglas Light 2010

  • She wasn't exactly a Laura Bush style first lady, whose most memorable contributions were the Christmas time tour of the White House and official presidential ginger-bread house.

    Obama Spokesman Denies Michelle's Speech Was Attack On Hillary 2009

  • These meals call for apple crisp and ginger-bread and icebox cookies and that lemon cake that turns into a pudding on the bottom.

    Whipping Up Memories 2008

  • I would always wonder how ginger-bread would taste as it was something that I'd never eaten.

    Archive 2006-07-01 2006

  • I heard a lesser boy, his coward arms held over his head and face, say to a bigger, who was pommeling him, for having run away with his apple, his orange, or his ginger-bread.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Unpleasant women smiled through windows at the mishap, the men all looked round, and a boy, who was minding a ginger-bread stall whilst the owner had gone to get drunk, laughed loudly.

    A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

  • I would always wonder how ginger-bread would taste as it was something that I'd never eaten.

    Guilt-free Gingerbread - JFI Flour 2006

  • His intrigue with Lady Newhaven seemed so long ago that it had been relegated to the same mental shelf in his mind as the nibbling of a certain forbidden ginger-bread when he was home for his first holidays.

    Red Pottage 2004

  • Grandfather bought a ginger-bread cock and a fish, and a sweetmeat, and an apple; and when he took the money out of his leather purse, his hands shook dreadfully and he dropped a penny, and I picked it up.

    The Insulted and the Injured 2003

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