Foundation for many a dessert

Usage examples of ladyfinger.

I shake my head, but he gets up anyway, selects two ladyfinger bananas, a bunch of litchis, some Brazil nuts, and a nutcracker, arranging them on a plate.

Calder who was new to the town and had gone bang like a ladyfinger with some of him left, like those little firecrackers that never quite went all up.

Not that Kate had ever seen a ladyfinger in real life, but she was very well read, and they ate ladyfingers and cucumber and watercress a lot in English novels.

After topping several sandy dunes, they stopped by the pathside in the shade of a mixed forest of beach umbrella trees, bagpipe bushes, clove trees, and ladyfinger and palm trees.

Ages, at the Persians who dreamt of flying-carpets, or the Chinese who all unknowing celebrated birthdays and New Years with strung ladyfingers and high skyrockets, or some minute, some incredible second in the next hour.

Idling in the chair that had been set up outside his tent beneath a canopy of gray silk, guards in attendance, he contemplated the siege as he munched contentedly on a bowl of ladyfingers that were not made of cake.

Persians, who dreamt of flying carpets, or the Chinese, who all unknowing celebrated birthdays and New Years with strung ladyfingers and high skyrockets, or some minute, some incredible second in the next hour.

Nixon was a boythere were plenty of pink ladyfingers and a passel of green leaf-shaped cookies, all of which crumbled into dusty remnants when you picked them up.

The mocha-glazed biscuits and sugared ladyfingers, his favorites, were gone.

Troy eyed the glass pitcher and tumblers arranged around a small plate of ladyfingers, grapes and pecan tarts.

The umbrella provided shade, the bagpipes played skitly music, and the ladyfingers made delicate gestures that caused the palms to sweat.