Andreevich, munching a cracknel after emptying his glass. From Wordnik.com. [Master and Man] Reference
"Yes, it's 'licious," agreed Joan, with her mouth full of cracknel biscuit. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
My favorite example of this sort of thing is in Harkavy's Yiddish-English-Hebrew dictionary, which for Yiddish beygl meaning "bagel" gives . . . "cracknel.". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: TITCHY.] Reference
In the second act Louis, one of the princely lackeys, brings a large cracknel and huge paper-cornet of sweets for Cornelia, whom he courts and whose favor he hopes in this way to win. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
How often she baked cracknel, cakes, rolls, and sweet biscuit, and sent great plates full of them to those who could not have such things, for she said, 'May those who pass by and smell the fragrance of my cakes never desire them in vain.'. From Wordnik.com. [Armenian Literature] Reference
When he is gone, Dal Segno's sister Julia, lady's maid to the Princess, enters with birthday-presents for her niece Cornelia, and among the things which attract her attentions sees the cracknel, beside which she finds a note from her own faithless lover Louis. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Little children prefer red sugar-plums to white, and always think it the best "content" which is drunk from a painted cup; but when the dispensation of content and sugar-plums has yielded to maturer age, the man takes his coffee and his cracknel without observing the pattern of the pottery. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
Dymov hurriedly drank a glass of tea, took a cracknel, and, smiling gently, went to the station. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife, and other stories] Reference
He had explained to her among other things how cracknel biscuits were made and why croup was so swift in its action. From Wordnik.com. [Malcolm Sage, Detective] Reference
Then the Kurilovka peasants presented Masha with an ikon, and the Dubechnia peasants gave her a large cracknel and a gilt salt-cellar. From Wordnik.com. [The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories] Reference
The Jijuare of a pillar below i A cracknel or cake made like a trendley or writhin like a rope; A band or multitude of people; Atvomans head - drefi; A fold of a ferpent. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeologia Britannica, giving some account additional to what has been hitherto publish'd, of the languages, histories and customs of the original inhabitants of Great Britain: : from collections and observations in travels through Wales, Cornwal, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland.] Reference
Then at last, wearied out by her familiar and constant contradiction, by the silliness of her birdlike brain, inflated and empty as any cracknel, he held his tongue, and silently resigned himself to let her go on to the bitter end. From Wordnik.com. [Femmes d'artistes. English] Reference
"distilled" all day and eat unbelievable amounts of cracknel and has reached 100 years old, lucid, lively and frisky. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
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