"Dessert" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are some perfectly elegant mushrooms," declared Madeline, who had been poking about among the fallen leaves. "We can use the pail for those first, and have the coffee with dessert." ...
— Betty Wales Senior • Margaret Warde
... a meal with dessert composed of wild apples, what could they do better than pass the night on a bed of the vegetable dust which covered the ground ...
— Godfrey Morgan - A Californian Mystery • Jules Verne
... convent, we had not long to wait for a capital dinner,—soup, a boiled chicken, mutton stewed with artichokes and beans, new honey, and rice prepared with milk, sugar, and spices, with a dessert of figs and grapes. The wine of the convent had a bitter taste, from an herb steeped in it, which was preferable to the pitch of Greek wines, but still not a desirable addition. One of the monks, who had a small property close by the convent, brought ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 • Various
... Indian, will prefer a dessert of decomposed gophers to one composed of the best canned peaches or Bartlett pears; he will devour the mass without any resulting evil, while a German—after many generations of training on all forms of sausages in every degree of age and ripeness, and on every form ...
— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino
... Tom, going away. But he turned again at the door and said, "But you'd better come, you know. There's the dessert,—nuts, you know, and ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester
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