bonne bouche
Example Sentences
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On his nightstand the day I asked to see it: “The White Nile” by Alan Moorehead, a book about educational policies, another on great speeches of history and an amusing bonne bouche by G.K.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2023
“It’s rather curious, sir,” he said, handing a letter, which he had been keeping back as a sort of bonne bouche for the last piece of business transacted that morning.
From The Haute Noblesse A Novel by George Manville Fenn
The finest and most characteristic prayer that it has been my good luck to come across is the following, which I have kept for a bonne bouche.
From Friend Mac Donald by Max O'Rell
Tom had fixed on this pool as his bonne bouche, as a child keeps its plums till the last, and stole over the bridge, stooping low to gain the point indicated.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
If he had been, I should have passed the letter to him as a bonne bouche, for this really was his show, and I wanted him to have all the plums.
From The Brightener by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
