He could only bake bridecake for which I may state no materials were to be had.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Brides Have No Budget (Or Taste)] Reference

She had a hand in the compounding of almost every bridecake, and had been known to often leave houses of feasting, to prepare weary earth-worn travellers for their final place of rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Garies and Their Friends] Reference

Dream of their sweethearts, when they sleep on bridecake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saint's Tragedy] Reference

Josias Crow, with a piece of liis daughter's bridecake, i.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference

It is the convoluted road that ends in a bridecake or a cucumber frame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art] Reference

But the bridecake was upon him as the Philistines upon Samson; and the question was, what the devil to do with it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference

He would give a picnic at which the bogey bridecake should figure conspicuously, and then be laid finally by the process of demolition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference

Although we may not breakfast on bridecake and beccaficos, yet is a neat's tongue better than a fox's tail; and I have ever held a bottle of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vivian Grey] Reference

Peliti declined to take this particular bridecake back, for all Simla had seen it in his window and he saw no possibility of "working it in.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference

She kept the bridecake, and enclosed to the gallant captain Gosslett's bill for the dozen of simkin that excellent firm had sent in to wash it down wherewithal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference

It may be a question of the settlement, or the bridecake, or white satin "slip" -- if that's the name for it -- the orange-flowers, or the choice of the best man -- who knows? '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Kilgobbin] Reference

It was inexpressibly sweet to turn for a few moments each day from the lace and the ribbons, the dresses and the bridecake, and hear Anne talk of what true marriage really was -- when two people entirely and worthily loved one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agatha's Husband A Novel] Reference

She looked at Sarah Pocket with triumph in her weird eyes, and so I left my fairy godmother, with both her hands on her crutch stick, standing in the midst of the dimly lighted room beside the rotten bridecake that was hidden in cobwebs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Expectations]

The modern wedding breakfast, with its bridecake, is a survival from a very ancient mode of solemnizing the closest tie of all; and when Proserpine tasted a pomegranate she partook of a fruit of a specially symbolic character to signify acceptance of her new destiny as her captor's wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology] Reference

Miss Philly's door, what should we perceive but Mr. Lamb standing on the step with a similar cockade, half as big as himself, stuck in his hat; whilst Miss Wolfe stood simpering behind the counter, dispensing to her old enemy Sam, and four other grinning boys in their best apparel, five huge slices of bridecake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Philly Firkin, The China-Woman] Reference

Eugenia's bridecake really has any power to influence my destiny! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Ware's Promised Land] Reference

Marcia’s timid hand that cut the bridecake, and all the room full watched her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Schuyler] Reference

Hippias at the presentation of bridecake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete] Reference

The bridecake has got to go into the oven.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turandot, Princess of China A Chinoiserie in Three Acts] Reference