Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tea-cake: short for
sally-lunn .
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Examples
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Posted in chalk river reactor, gary lunn, isotope crisis, linda keen.
The Conservatives Need To Back Off On Linda Keen « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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Posted in chalk river reactor, gary lunn, isotope crisis, linda keen.
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Cambridge: printed by benjamin flower, for w.h. lunn, and j. and j. merrill; and sold by j. march, norwich.
Title Page 2007
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Ayes onlie hoam 4 lunn, n u gotz 2 hab anuuder silli lincage… wars mai tynfoile hat?
Ok as long as u hold mah hand - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Very interesting read, but Google hasn't done anything new in quite a while. bernard lunn
Google AdWords: A Brief History Of Online Advertising Innovation - Publishing 2.0 2008
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Good luck with getting a real screen in your pocket, I'm sure those criminals will keep tricking you unitl you learn it ain't possible. bernard lunn
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I think now of the batter-cakes, the light rolls, the syllabub, the sally-lunn, the ship-ships and the wafers grandma made.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp
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I'll have to hurry on over and knock up a extra sally-lunn for him, I reckon.
Rose of Old Harpeth Maria Thompson Daviess 1898
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But the other evening Mrs. Cobb sent over a plate of golden sally-lunn on a silver waiter, covered with a snow-white napkin; and acting on this provocation, I thought they could be trusted with a basket of cherries.
A Kentucky Cardinal James Lane Allen 1887
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I myself, old and wrinkled as I am, have never forgotten how I rapped at the wrong door one morning -- the kitchen door -- and found her in that same costume, with her arms bare to the elbows and covered with flour, where she had been making a "sally lunn" for daddy.
Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876
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