It lay, like an invisible glue, upon everything in the Roundabout-you could feel it on the door-handles, as you feel the jammy reminiscences of incautious servant-maids.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
At one side stands Mr. William Henry Cranstoun, with a rope round his neck, and crossing his body like a riband of knighthood; in his pocket is "Powder to Clean Pebbels" in his mouth a label, "jammy will save me."
"Trial-of-Mary-Blandy"
Roughead, William
Cranstoun was brother of James, afterwards sixth Lord Cranstoun, probably the "jammy" refered to in his speech as above quoted.
"Trial-of-Mary-Blandy"
Roughead, William