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

I kept back the item about specimens being buried under the writing, as a sort of bonne bouche; and as matters turned out, never told a soul about it.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright

Are there not—the bonne bouche comes at last—priests and deacons?

From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)

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 Hughes, Thomas

I like fowl's liver, it is my one bonne bouche during the day, but these startled me, and after straining my teeth on the carcase, I gladly swallow the soft mouthful.

From Three Months of My Life by Foster, J. F.