Dick managed to get through the ill-spelled letter, and learned its instructions by heart, and then was rewarded with a home-made flakey cake, out of the big basket, that was better than all the fairings they had left behind.
"Dick Lionheart"
Mary Rowles Jarvis
And so we sat about our little table, with the great rabbit pie in the middle, and great helpings of potatoes and onions on our plates, and flakey white bread and yellow home-made butter within reach, and the light beating down from an oil lamp on the wall, and would not have changed places with any one on earth.
"Neighbours"
Robert Stead
The willows are smothered, all save the tops where the snow-flakey ptarmigan find food and shelter.
"The Big Otter"
R.M. Ballantyne