"Cookie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the village, Mr Sudberry felt a sensation of hunger, and instantly resolved to purchase a bun, which article he had now learned to call by its native name of "cookie." At the same instant a bright idea struck him—he would steer for the baker's shop by compass! He knew the position of the shop exactly—the milestone gave him the distance—he would lay his course for it. He would walk ...
— Freaks on the Fells - Three Months' Rustication • R.M. Ballantyne
... turned her hair gray if he had not been afraid it would have been too long a story. Not that Jerry disliked Mrs. Bullfinch even though she was long-winded. She was kind and she made good cookies. Jerry usually went home from the Bullfinch house munching an oatmeal cookie. ...
— Jerry's Charge Account • Hazel Hutchins Wilson
... door, but only a tall open arch—and rush noisily across the yard. Katy was at the head, bearing a large black bottle without any cork in it, while the others carried in each hand what seemed to be a cookie. ...
— What Katy Did • Susan Coolidge
... made the face that Patsey had taught him by drawing down his eyes, and putting his fingers in his mouth. Danny thought she liked it very much, for she went hurriedly into the pantry and brought back a cookie ...
— Sowing Seeds in Danny • Nellie L. McClung
... and neither was recreation. The bunkhouse offered crude but adequate facilities for living; old-fashioned air-conditioning and an antique infra-red broiler seemed good enough for roughing it, and Cookie at least turned out real man-sized meals. Eating genuine beef and honest-to-goodness baked bread was a treat, and so was having the luxury of all that space in the sleeping ...
— This Crowded Earth • Robert Bloch
... cookie cutter a round of bread from a thick slice, then a ring with a doughnut cutter. Dip in melted butter and toast a delicate brown in the oven. Fill them with ...
— Stevenson Memorial Cook Book • Various
... a cookie in each hand, were racing about the yard, playing with Splash, the big dog. Splash liked cookies, too, and I think he had almost as much of Bunny's and Sue's as ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm • Laura Lee Hope
... finely," Mrs. Crim remarked. "A year ago you'd have taken the cookie without the ...
— Penrod • Booth Tarkington
... whad you-all think? Gran'ma takes her knittin' ter bed with 'er and every now and then she throws out a sock. I'll bet a cookie you-all kain't knit ...
— Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers • Jessie Graham Flower
... to live in the city," she murmured. "Say, don't you feel as if you'd like a cookie ...
— Up the Hill and Over • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
... American nuisance, in person. Katie, give me that tray and run back for the little rustic stand in the arbor—oh, thank you, Mr. Dalton! Now, Dodo, sit down there and don't speak till you have eaten that cookie all up." ...
— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry
... it—I bet a cookie he stays just where I tell him to stay," insisted Cousin Egbert. The evident conviction of his tone alarmed his hearers, who regarded each other ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... all right," says Homer. "I says to myself the other day: 'I bet a cookie he'd like to be ...
— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson
... I said. "A bee-line hasn't even got any waves or wrinkles in it. It's just as straight as a line drawn right through the middle of this cookie." ...
— Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... diameter should be made in the bottom and the box must then have small legs or cleats about 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch thick to hold it up enough to let air flow beneath. Having a drip-catcher—a large cookie tray works well—is essential. Worms can also be kept in plastic containers (like dish pans) with holes punched in the bottom. As this book is being written, one mail-order garden supply company even sells a tidy-looking 19" by 24" by about 12" deep green plastic ...
— Organic Gardener's Composting • Steve Solomon
... of you runnin' an' shoutin' an' cheerin' an' laughin', and all over shearin' and ill-usin' a poor little darg! Why couldn't you play a trick on another man's darg?... It doesn't matter much—I'm nearly done cookie' here now.... Only that I've got a family to think of I wouldn't 'a' stayed so long. I've got to be up at five every mornin', an' don't get to bed till ten at night, cookin' an' bakin' an' cleanin' for you an' waitin' on you. First ...
— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson
... a cookie or anything, and a cup o' milk, handy?" he said at the end of the first enormous word, which ran the whole length ...
— Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland
... can stay underwater for as long as half an hour without breathing apparatus, if he conserves his energy. When he's wearing his scuba mask, he's practically a self-contained submarine. The pressure doesn't seem to bother him much. He's a tough cookie." ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett
... those fields,—it's shorter than going by the road,—and then we can look round outside till it's time to go in. I want to have a good go at everything, especially the lions," said Sam, beginning on his last cookie. ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, May, 1878, No. 7. - Scribner's Illustrated • Various
... kitchen. It was quite nice there—the sun was shining across the white floor and something on the stove smelled very good. Nora was singing, too, which meant that he could coax a little and get in her way. After a while she gave him a whole cookie—he felt happier! ...
— Keineth • Jane D. Abbott
... said Pete. "He has everybody tell them young ones about everything—blacksmith, cabinet-maker, pie-founder, cookie-cooper, dressmaker—even down to telephones. He'll have them scholars figurin' on telephones, and writin' compositions on 'em, and learnin' 'lectricity from 'em an' things ...
— The Brown Mouse • Herbert Quick
... weren't quarrelling," said Mrs. Williams, reassured by this reply, which, though somewhat baffling, was thoroughly familiar to her ear. "Now, if you'll come downstairs, I'll give you each one cookie and no more, so your appetites won't ...
— Penrod and Sam • Booth Tarkington
... box to see what Ellen gave you, but I only broke off two teenty, weenty corners of sandwiches and one little new-moon bite out of a cookie," said Peter, creating a diversion according ...
— Mother Carey's Chickens • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... Miss 'Cilia locked up—the little red-'eaded cat! An' Master Wilfred gorn to fetch the Master! Oh, come on, Cookie darlin', ...
— Back To Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce
... bear, can't I have a cookie?" asked Mr. Laurie, when the shout subsided and he had expressed his thanks by a ...
— Little Men - Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott
... touching her head significantly. "Come here, Susy," and she motioned the staring child to her. Susy approached with the hang-back step of a child or a dog not always certain of what he may get but Mrs. Lynch magically produced a round cookie, fat with currants, and Susy sprang at her with a ...
— Red-Robin • Jane Abbott
... he heard the little boy say this. "Don't be suggesting such things! That monkey might hear you and try it. I don't want my store all splashed up with red and green paint. Come on down now, Wango!" he called, snapping his fingers at the old sailor's queer pet. "Come on down, and I'll give you a cookie." ...
— Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue Giving a Show • Laura Lee Hope
... letter o' Mowbray's said?" interjected Jack quickly. "How he never met any natives, I mean? Bet a cookie you were right, ...
— The Rogue Elephant - The Boys' Big Game Series • Elliott Whitney
... little while they were at the house of the neighbor to whom Grandma Brown had sent them. They gave in the little note grandma had written, and then Mrs. Wilson, to whom it was sent, after writing an answer, gave Bunny and Sue each a cookie, and a cool glass ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus • Laura Lee Hope
... ID, or other token of agreement between cooperating programs. "I give him a packet, he gives me back a cookie." The claim check you get from a dry-cleaning shop is a perfect mundane example of a cookie; the only thing it's useful for is to relate a later transaction to this one (so you get the same clothes back). Compare {magic cookie}; ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... good-bye to Hannah, you young scamps. She somehow seems to have the notion you are never to return. Tell her she is not to get off so easily. Before many moons she will find you two in the pantry raiding the cookie jar just as you robbed it ...
— The Story of Glass • Sara Ware Bassett |
