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All these misfortunes had quite wearied her out; she was starving with hunger, and hurried on to the fire, hoping for a nice hot sweet girdle-cake.
Tales of the Punjab 1894
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All these misfortunes had quite wearied her out; she was starving with hunger, and hurried on to the fire, hoping for a nice hot sweet girdle-cake.
Tales of the Punjab Flora Annie Steel 1888
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Annie was so far fortunate as to get a refreshing draught of really good milk from a woman who stood by a cottage door, and who gave her a piece of girdle-cake to eat with it.
A World of Girls The Story of a School L. T. Meade 1884
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Friday, the same state of things: a little flour had been discovered in a discarded flour-bag, and we had a sort of girdle-cake and water.
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"I am going to see my grand-mamma, and carry her a girdle-cake, and a little pot of butter, from my mamma."
manybooks.net 2009
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