hardbake

How To Use hardbake In A Sentence

• And we gave H.O. some of the hardbake, to make it easier for him to keep his vow. The Story of the Treasure Seekers
• A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, having run into the town upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor’s door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt. Vanity Fair
• When prison air and prison influence have succeeded in incasing a man with the sort of moral hardbake that renders him callous to those feelings which at first so gall the raw spots, he finds himself watching with curiosity the shapings of newcomers. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude
• A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, having run into the town upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor’s door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt. V. Dobbin of Ours
• He borrowed from every one of the pupils -- I don't know how he spent it except in hardbake and alycompaine -- and even from old Nosey's groom, -- pardon me, we used to call your grandfather by that playful epithet (boys will be boys, you know), -- even from the doctor's groom he took money, and I recollect thrashing Charles Honeyman for that disgraceful action. The Newcomes
• He borrowed from every one of the pupils — I don’t know how he spent it except in hardbake and alycompaine — and even from old Nosey’s groom, — pardon me, we used to call your grandfather by that playful epithet (boys will be boys, you know), — even from the doctor’s groom he took money, and I recollect thrashing Charles Honeyman for that disgraceful action. The Newcomes
• It's a very, very good dinner -- rabbit, and hardbake, and coconut -- and you needn't mind us knowing you're poor, because we know honourable poverty is no disgrace, and -- 'I could have gone on much longer, but he interrupted me to say --' Upon my word! The Story of the Treasure Seekers
• Pencil and squared paper are poor means of conveying information at any time, and when the Adjutant had been assured that the business was really "wholesale hardware," and not "wholesale hardbake," as he had first read it, everything went swimmingly. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919
• It was crammed with cakes, butterscotch, hardbake, pots of jam, and even a bottle of ginger wine—enough to compromise a chameleon! Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers
• Certain glistening squares of sticky white substance on a corner shelf commended themselves to her notice as specimens of stale 'nougat,' wherein the almonds represented a remote antiquity, -- and a mass of stringy yellow matter laid out in lumps on blue paper and marked 'One Penny per ounce' claimed attention as a certain 'hardbake' peculiar to St. Rest, which was best eaten in a highly glutinous condition. God's Good Man