bonne bouche

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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

"A decided bit of news, pour la bonne bouche!"

From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Schubin, Ossip

If he dropped it or stopped to enjoy his bonne bouche, his mates would be upon him.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various

They also eat ostrich flesh, as an exceptional bonne bouche, and birds' eggs, and fish, which the women catch.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport

However, the gull thought the matter over, and soon devised an excellent scheme for capturing the four or five sparrows which it required as a daily bonne bouche.

From Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly by Various