There was a table spread for four, with bits of broken china and shells for dishes, and pieces of apple and gingerbread for the feast.
There were fried chicken and peas and mashed potatoes and the gingerbread and cocoa and flaky cherry pie.
And after dinner they all went out to watch King eat the gingerbread of his choice.
She shuts the door down, Until they're done brown--all those gingerbread children.
And at that moment the awful oven fell apart, and out jumped a lot of little children with the gingerbread all falling off them, while they sprang about Hänsel and Gretel in great joy.
All the gingerbreadchildren were singing at the top of their voices and were carrying on in the most joyous way.
And children plump, and tender to eat, She lures with magic gingerbread sweet.
In the room on the left a long supper-table was seen, set forth with great pitchers of new milk, piles of brown and white bread, and perfect stacks of the shiny gingerbread so dear to boyish souls.
You can cook things every day after lessons, but I prefer that you should eat your dishes at your regular meals, and only have a bit of gingerbread for lunch.
As I entered the kitchen I sniffed a pleasant smell of gingerbread baking.
Grandmother hunted up her fancy cake-cutters and baked gingerbread men and roosters, which we decorated with burnt sugar and red cinnamon drops.
We hung it with the gingerbread animals, strings of popcorn, and bits of candle which Fuchs had fitted into pasteboard sockets.
Toby went into the shop and returned with a paper sack, and putting the gingerbread into it gave it to Freddie.
He went on up the street with his package of tobacco in one hand and his package of gingerbread in the other.
You couldn't get gingerbread at home between meals every day in the week.
Nettie was amazed and dismayed to find how much even soft gingerbread cost, when every pan of it had to be counted in money.
I'll be willing to eat such gingerbread as that three times a day for a week.
Unconsciously I have wandered into this fashionable avenue on my promenade, and halted, quite stupidly, in front of a booth stocked with gingerbread and decanters of liquorice-water, each topped by a lemon.
His round, fixed eyes contemplate a certain gingerbread man of lofty stature.
As gingerbread burns easily, take care not to have the oven too hot.
Many persons find highly-spiced gingerbread a preventive to sea-sickness.
You may cut them out small with the lid of a cannister (or something similar) the usual size of gingerbread nuts.
Never put allspice into gingerbread or any other cake.
She's refused to go in and buy some gingerbread of the baker, as I told her.
Ain't it a piece of ingratitude, when we go to the trouble of earning the money to pay for gingerbread for you to eat, that you ain't willing to go in and buy it?
There's a loaf of gingerbread too, with raisins in it," she said.
Bacon and biscuit are going to be the staff of our existence, with gingerbread and cheese for the reserves.
But Kit took him into the kitchen and gave him a big square of gingerbreadwith whipped cream on it, and listened to him plan out the future without a single word of depreciation or discouragement.
But a gingerbread house presided over by a good spirit, not an evil one.
She had rather a happy feeling as she watched Mrs. Huggins, as if she had been a little girl who had gone out one day and grown suddenly tired and forlorn, and then been unexpectedly invited into the very gingerbread house itself.
Vreni had crushed her gingerbread house, and was just going to shed a few tears on that account when she noticed the black fiddler, and now felt a veritable terror.
Vreni on her part presented Sali with a gingerbread heart, on which on either side these verses were pasted: A sweet, sweet almond pierces my heart, as you see, But sweeter far than almonds is my love for thee.
Both of them eagerly read these verses, and never had rhymes, never had any kind of poetry, been more deeply felt and appreciated than were these gingerbread stanzas.
They did not notice that they themselves were perpetrating the same species of humor as was spread out on the printed pasters of the gingerbread literature.
And the poor girl followed him willingly, bearing in her hand the huge gingerbread cottage, although the trumpets and horns from inside the inn sounded so invitingly, and although she was most anxious and eager to dance.
On the platform at Liverpool, after the races, he took a gingerbread cayenne nut by mistake.
The next scrubbee was a nice looking lad, with a curly brown mane, and a budding trace of gingerbread over the lip, which he called his beard, and defended stoutly, when the barber jocosely suggested its immolation.
Think that my sandwiches would be more relishing without so strong a flavor of napkin, and my gingerbread more easy of consumption if it had not been pulverized by being sat upon.
Will hurried on toward Frosty Hollow, munching a piece of Mrs. Dare’s gingerbread by the way.
Will insisted also on a generous sheet of Mrs. Dare’s gingerbread and a brown stone jug of lime-juice ready mixed.
With the prospect of a sale the owner had unwillingly consented to replace the gingerbread porch with one in better style, but refused to do more.
No--the porch isn't attractive with all that gingerbread work, but you could take it away and have something plain and simple.
Don't try too many messes, Jo, for you can't make anything but gingerbread and molasses candy fit to eat.
Jo remembered the kind old gentleman, who used to let her build railroads and bridges with his big dictionaries, tell her stories about queer pictures in his Latin books, and buy her cards of gingerbread whenever he met her in the street.
Beth's new 'ink bib' was capital, and Hannah's box of hard gingerbreadwill be a treasure.
Just what I want for a pasty,' she told them, 'and so well picked that I will make you a gingerbread man for dinner.
They had no gingerbread dolls that day, but later I brought them home a fine bearskin rug, on which they now sit for their bedtime stories.
Billy went and after smelling the coat pronounced the good smell to come from a piece of gingerbread in one of the pockets.
Well, I guess if you had eaten as many pieces of gingerbread as I have you would not forget the name.
The old woman, and the horse and you can’t catch me, for I am the gingerbread man.
The old woman can’t catch me, and you can’t catch me, for I am the gingerbread man.
Jump on my nose,” said the fox, and the gingerbread man jumped on the fox’s nose.
The little old woman ran after him, but the gingerbread man laughed and called out: “Run!
But he was quite done by this time, and while the old woman was pulling out the pan, the gingerbread man jumped out and ran down the road.
Now, my little man, I shall bake you until you are done,” said the old woman, and put the gingerbread man into the oven.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gingerbread" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
