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

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

This examination he had set his heart upon; and reserving it as a bonne bouche, dismissed all preliminary cases in a very off-hand manner, just as men carelessly swallow a few oysters preparatory to dinner.

From Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes by Lover, Samuel

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