bonne bouche
Example Sentences
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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
I am afraid I must own they were given as a bonne bouche to my Virginian nightingale, who seemed highly to approve of this addition to his daily fare.
From Wild Nature Won By Kindness by Brightwen, Elizabeth
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
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
