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

The narrator, a well-meaning gossip, left the presbytery in consternation, and forbore from further repetition of what was to her a "bonne bouche."

From Grey Town An Australian Story by Baldwin, Gerald

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 O'Rell, Max

My father enjoined me that one of my first visits after his death, should be to the Grove; and in truth I now considered my Hampshire engagement as the bonne bouche of my southern excursion.

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by More, Hannah

She then put a bit of bread into its mouth, until the ass had mumbled it a little, after which she gave the savory morsel to Phelim, as a bonne bouche.

From Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William