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

"In my quality of ogre only—a bonne bouche," said he.

From Jaffery by Locke, William John

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

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

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