Fifteen girls consumed fifteen iced meringues and fifteen cups of chocolate, the cost of which they shared, and at the same time brought forward some practical suggestions.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
How could Lilly, with her petty ambitions, have any conception of theirs, and of what they suffered, struggling against the temptations of meringues and chocolate cakes at the confectioner's?
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
But directly there's a war, whoever it is you've married, if it isn't one of your own countrymen, rises up against you, just as if he were too many meringues you'd had for dinner.
"Christopher and Columbus"
Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim