"You are very entertaining to-night," said Lucy; to which Berintha replied: "You did not think I could be so agreeable, did you, when you asked me to keep out of sight this evening, and said that such old fudges as grandma and I would appear much better in our rooms, taking snuff, and nodding at each other over our knitting work?"
"Homestead on the Hillside"
Mary Jane Holmes
Hoping that the immortality which you have given to the fudges, you will receive from them; and in the firm expectation, that when London shall be an habitation of bitterns; when St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey shall stand, shapeless and nameless ruins, in the midst of an unpeopled marsh; when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream, some transatlantic commentator will be weighing in the scales of some new and now unimagined system of criticism, the respective merits of the Bells and the fudges, and their historians.
"Peter Bell the Third"
Percy Bysshe Shelley
But the ripping thing is, Uncle John, that two of the Guatemalas are fudges.
"Poor Relations"
Compton Mackenzie