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
I did not like the idea of having all the specimens of the fine arts in Europe collected into one "bonne bouche" at the Louvre.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various
Now for something which I have kept as the bonne bouche of my earthy story.
From Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) by Clough Williams-Ellis
Are there not—the bonne bouche comes at last—priests and deacons?
From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
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
