ginger-snap

I liked pie, but not pudding; the rich, heavy fruit-cake of weddings, good, honest gingerbread, the brisk, crispy heat of the brittle ginger-snap, but not "plain cake," -- absurd viand!

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

A part of the assortment of children's stockings was under a blanket on a shelf, a part in a tin ginger-snap box, the rest heaped like a nest of black-cotton snakes upon a flour-barrel which was surrounded by brooms, Norwegian Bibles, dried cod for ludfisk, boxes of apricots, and a pair and a half of lumbermen's rubber-footed boots.

Main Street 1920

So Sara, who was really a very young mother, and had not yet trained herself to be firm and self-willed and contrary, put the Baby's clothes in her pocket with the yarn and knitting needles and a ginger-snap she had brought, and set the stubborn Baby down on the blue plush grass, where it rolled around quite happily again in its red sash and parasol.

The Garden of the Plynck Karle Wilson Baker 1919

A part of the assortment of children's stockings was under a blanket on a shelf, a part in a tin ginger-snap box, the rest heaped like a nest of black-cotton snakes upon a flour-barrel which was surrounded by brooms, Norwegian Bibles, dried cod for ludfisk, boxes of apricots, and a pair and a half of lumbermen's rubber-footed boots.

Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

This night has been full of snap so far, it reminds me of a ginger-snap.

Tom Slade's Double Dare Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

"Isn't this lovely!" exclaimed Molly, as she took her seventh ginger-snap from the plate.

Marjorie's Vacation Carolyn Wells 1902

"You're so poetical, Kitty," said Marjorie; "I love the blue sky and the green trees too, but just now I want to see a red apple and a brown ginger-snap!"

Marjorie's Maytime Carolyn Wells 1902

"A ginger-snap prize to the first fellow who spots the academy," cried

The Rover Boys in Camp or, The Rivals of Pine Island Edward Stratemeyer 1896

She pushed a ginger-snap between her lips, and chewed enigmatically upon it.

The Coast of Bohemia William Dean Howells 1878

She put the last ginger-snap into her mouth, and with a flying kiss to Cornelia as she passed, she flashed out of the door, and down the stairs.

The Coast of Bohemia William Dean Howells 1878