Cake or scones are usually served with tea, an additional charge being made.
There are hot scones in that dish," Pixie said quietly.
I packed some scones and marmalade into my creel, filled my flask with whiskey, my cigarette-case with cigarettes, and started on the familiar track with the happiest anticipations.
His guest was so genial and friendly and appreciative of the scones and the currant cake that he began to upbraid himself for churlishness in allowing anything like a suspicion of this pleasant gentleman to linger in his mind.
He was delighted with this change in his programme, and at once countermanded his trap, and ordered Mary to set about making scones and a currant cake for tea.
Into this pit they threw the corpse, then tying a rope of palm-fibres under the husband's armpits, they let him down into the cavern, and with him a great pitcher of fresh water and seven scones by was of viaticum.
Quince marmalade and clotted cream, and wheaten scones that she had baked that morning.
Dinna stir yer tea as if ye was churnin' butter, nor let on 'at the scones is no our am bakin'.
Weel, when Marget has company at their tea in the wast room, an' they need mair watter or scones or onything, she rises an' rings the bell.
She was going to help warm the scones for tea; perhaps you will come and help us eat them," she added shyly.
That worthy dame was engaged in making scones for tea, and turned a flushed but kindly face to Christina, who had already won her heart.
She has for the first scones and marmalade, and her tea is in a small black teapot under a red cozy with a white muslin cover drawn over it.
A Mr. Nicolson there is, and he is known to be the baker, but he dwells in the regions below the shop and only issues at rare intervals, beneath the friendly shelter of a huge tin tray filled with scones and baps.
It was pleasant to be out, in the morning freshness; and there was no need to hurry home, since the scones and tea in the kitchen had made him independent of breakfast.
Miss Agatha received the greater part of his attention, and in return pressed the hot scones on him hospitably.
A big, fat tea," she murmured, "with lots of scones and Devonshire cream.
They go back and have tea--a big fat tea with lots ofscones and Devonshire cream.
It only needed the teapot and the scones and cakes, therefore, to complete the feast.
There, with his fore-paws upon the table, stood Raggles, the shaggy yard dog, devouring scones as fast as he could gulp them down his capacious throat.
I expect your sconeswill be lovely, and that will quite make up for the jam.
Then, when they had quenched their thirst she brought out oatcakes and scones and brown bread, and would fain have added milk, but there was none.
Of the food, too, none seemed to have been taken, though she had herself seen them break the scones and the oatcakes.
Then he poured boiling water upon the tea in the brown jenny, and put the new bread and the sweet-milk scones on the rude deal board that was the table.
And now, Kooran, off you trot home for the barley scones and the flagon o' milk.
As soon as Kenneth's mother had milked the cow, she filled a tin flagon with the rich white fluid, made up a large parcel of buttered scones and cheese, tied the whole in a large red napkin, and put it on the floor.
Kooran trotted off, and was back again in a moment with a tin saucer, and the scones and milk were shared.
We had a perfectly good high tea, and them buttered scones with marmalade couldn't be beat.
And I'm no just sure that Miss Robina would be pleased that you should take tea with me so soon again, and I'm no sure that I hae scones enew.
Scones and fresh butter and honey, to say nothing of "paddies" and other nice things.
And what a supper they ate, sitting round the table eating scones and butter, with delicious raspberry jam.
There was a wood fire smouldering on a great open fireplace, and raking the embers open the good woman put a toasting fork into Rumple's hands and bade him toast scones for himself.
The scones were nearly ready in the oven, and she watched them with a skilful eye.
The mother set the scones on the table and glanced over it with approving eyes.
Chrissie, even, was graciously pleased to express her approval of the hot buttered scones which their kind mother had specially ordered for the occasion.
But I've got scones just newly bakit, an' I'll mak ye a cup o' fine coffee.
The good cheer which Lisbeth provided was much appreciated by Marjory, who did ample justice to the scones and cookies.
I suppose I micht just as weel, though there's sconesand cookies enough for a regiment only bakit yesterday.
But as she was looking for the place Sandy grunted forth stubbornly: "A'm no wantin' ony scones the nicht, so ye maun na fetch them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scones" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
