sponge-cakes

Other vendors came up; she stuffed my pockets with everything that they had, tied up in packets, comfits, sponge-cakes, sugar-sticks.

Within a Budding Grove 2003

The click-clack of egg-beating resounded continuously; and mountains of sponge-cakes of all shapes and sizes rose under her hands.

Australia Felix 2003

The admiral tossed four sponge-cakes in quick succession down the accommodating throats of the dogs.

No Name 2003

I declare I never heard or read of an army so partial to pastry as that British army before Sebastopol; while I had a reputation for my sponge-cakes that any pastry-cook in

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole

I used to make sponge-cakes on board the "Medora," with eggs brought from Constantinople.

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole

A pound of butter, and some salt and pepper, and a bunch of celery; a box of "chipped beef", and a dozen eggs, and a quart of potatoes; and then to the baker's, for rolls and sponge-cakes -- did ever a grocer and a baker sell such ecstasies before?

Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

The stale buns and the stale sponge-cakes must have been baked, one fancies, by her own heavy hand.

Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914

How glorious for an instant were the thin, sharp-faced waitresses, the little marble-topped tables, the glass windows filled with sponge-cakes and hard-boiled eggs!

Fortitude Hugh Walpole 1912

A friend of mine, aged seven, hearing the talk about all the coming privations, has decided to remove chocolates, buns and sponge-cakes from his dietary, and several young ladies have agreed to take milk instead of cream with their breakfast porridge.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 Various 1898

"Dear, dear!" cried Miss Anne, her kind face clouding over; "that does seem too bad, don't it? all those nice things! and Tudie makes the best sponge-cakes I ever eat, pretty nigh."

"Some Say" Neighbours in Cyrus Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896