pastry-cook

Socrates then constructs an analogy: a doctor brought to trial against a pastry-cook, before a jury of children.

Ancient & modern 2009

And that same aristocracy, lording it today in the Faubourg Saint – Germain, has done worse — has been merchant, usurer, pastry-cook, farmer, and shepherd.

Eve and David 2007

And that same aristocracy, lording it today in the Faubourg Saint – Germain, has done worse — has been merchant, usurer, pastry-cook, farmer, and shepherd.

Eve and David 2007

A young pastry-cook who had been to college, and who had mustered some phrases from Cicero, gave himself airs one day about loving his country.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Peyrade felt the blow all the more keenly because, being greedy and a libertine, he had found himself, with regard to women, in the position of a pastry-cook who loves sweetmeats.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

The young pastry-cook knew not how to reply; and a person of reflection, who overheard the conversation, was led to infer that a country of moderate extent may contain many millions of men who have no country at all.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

She was quite faint, for she had taken nothing that morning but the glass of water which the pastry-cook in the Strand had given her, and was forced to take hold of the railings of a house for support just as

Mens Wives 2006

Vain fool! and he sends off to the pastry-cook in Great Russell Street or Baker

The Fitz-Boodle Papers 2006

No first-rate pastry-cook could long remain obscure in any town, to say nothing of having to appeal to posterity.

The Art of Literature 2004

She offered to them good, honest household cake made of currants and flour and eggs and sweetmeat, but they would feed themselves on trashy wafers from the shop of the Barchester pastry-cook, on chalk and gum and adulterated sugar.

Barchester Towers 2004