viand
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I liked pie, but not pudding; the rich, heavy fruit-cake of weddings, good, honest gingerbread, the brisk, crispy heat of the brittle ginger-snap, but not "plain cake,"—absurd viand!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various
Sov'reign solids of nature, Solar seeds of the sphere, Olympian viand Surprising as rare.
From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson
To say nothing of the baked horseflesh—by many gourmets esteemed a delectable dish—the corn of the mezcal, treated thus, is a viand palatable as peculiar.
From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Reid, Mayne
Not until one has tried does one realize to what excellence and variety this form of viand lends itself.
From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Cooke, Maud C.
The extraordinary taste which finds pleasure in eating this sour meat is little less remarkable than the strange way in which the viand is prepared.
From Suppers Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions by Pierce, Paul
Vocabulary lists containing viand
Frankenstein
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The Tempest
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"The Pit and the Pendulum," Vocabulary from the short story
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