Morsel in many a chocolate bar

Usage examples of almond.

He was indefatigable when it came to crushing bitter almond seeds in the screw press or mashing musk pods or mincing dollops of grey, greasy ambergris with a chopping knife or grating violet roots and digesting the shavings in the finest alcohol.

It had peanuts, pecans, pistachios, almonds, cashews, Brazil, acorns, macadamia, walnut, chestnut, pine, beechnut, filbert, hickory, mixed.

And you doter lettuce, water chestnuts, mandarin orange sections and Now he did look at her, a brief flash from those dark eyes, slivered almonds, and top it off with poppy-seed dressing.

You pay eighty marks and they plant a dunam of land for you with olives, oranges, almonds or citrons.

He opened the front door for her, and they stood together for a moment on the dustless door-mat, mathematically laid upon verandah boards as white as new-peeled almonds.

A second wall boasted an espaliered apricot tree, grown immense across it, twining with an equally ancient almond, both in bloom.

He kissed her eyes, then, slowly, the rest of her face, tasting the faint trace of almond on her freckled cheeks, as he had once fantasized.

When Wing Goy turned back to the doorway, he was too late to see the fleeting shape, but his almond eyes became suddenly fixed in gaze.

Chin Kou seemed a flower fashioned of aged ivory, with downcast almond eyes and a shy smile.

Almond eyes widened as the guard saw a moving smirch of blackness that blotted out all sight of Koy Shan.

He replaced the note, found the cream cheese, tomatoes, lox, pickle and an Almond Roca on a plate in the refrigerator.

And afterward would come a creamy Coulommier cheese, some green almonds, a mug of eyeball-extruding black coffee and perhaps a prunelle liqueur.

She spends hours and hours at the kitchen ranges, preparing baskets of strained ricotta, nucatelli, almond cakes, little ice-creams, morello cherries, lemonade flavoured with tarragon.

Inside was a wonderful array of chilled cannolis, plain and chocolate, anisette and almond, hard waffled cones filled with sweet ricotta, stacked on silver trays like little cords of firewood.

Along the embankment the flowering almonds made the fading air flush like dawn, and all up the staircases of the Lucerna, between the crumbling sgraffito and the baroque stone vases, the heady boughs of the false acacia, vivid green and virgin white, leaned down faint with fragrance over the heads of lovers.