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  • ” Then after a moment’s pause she added, “There’s a dozen o’ cut jelly-glasses upstairs—I shall never put jelly into ’em no more.

    III. The Family Council. Book III—The Downfall 1917

  • To such a point did it obsess me that I refused to allow Maggie to use a tablet of glazed paper she had found in the kitchen table drawer to tie up the jelly-glasses.

    The Confession Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • Pour rapidly from one jug to the other till the mixture is well frothed; then, pour it into jelly-glasses, omitting the lemon-rind.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • Pour rapidly from one jug to the other till the mixture is well frothed; then, pour it into jelly-glasses, omitting the lemon-rind.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • Then after a moment's pause she added, "There's a dozen o 'cut jelly-glasses upstairs -- I shall never put jelly into 'em no more."

    The Mill on the Floss George Eliot 1849

  • Abstracted as he was, and conveniently deaf at times, he had heard such significant whispers about "taking advantage of the bishop's being in the neighborhood," and "twelve new jelly-glasses being absolutely wanted," as to assure him that some deadly festivity was in the wind.

    The Caxtons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Abstracted as he was, and conveniently deaf at times, he had heard such significant whispers about "taking advantage of the bishop's being in the neighborhood," and "twelve new jelly-glasses being absolutely wanted," as to assure him that some deadly festivity was in the wind.

    The Caxtons — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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