"Christmas pudding" Quotes from Famous Books
... Christmas pudding which I add was served up this Christmas on my table and pronounced delicious. Dyspeptics need not fear this "Plum Pudding" and it is rich enough to please ... — Favorite Dishes • Carrie V. Shuman
... be made if I approached his royal highness with the flat announcement. Accordingly, I schooled my interpreters, and visited that important personage. I made a long speech, as full of compliments and blarney as a Christmas pudding is of plums, and concluded by touching the soft part in African royalty's heart—slaves! I told the king that a vessel or two, with abundant freights, would be waiting me on the river, and that I must ... — Captain Canot - or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver • Brantz Mayer |