They may be sharp

Usage examples of cheeses.

The custom was to slice one of these amazing cheeses up on Christmas Eve and eat it with fruit-cakes and sherried trifles and roly-poly puddings and, most importantly, honeycakes.

In mid November, Jonathan loaded a boat with raisin cheeses and floated down the river to Willowood Station where he sold them to traders who sailed away west to sell them in turn to the field dwarfs along the coast.

Elfin Highlands, and some to trade for the round raisin cheeses which had come downriver from Twombly Town.

With Ahab trotting alongside or resting now and again just inside the door, Jonathan carried out some two or three dozen cheeses of various shapes and sizes including a half dozen crocks of creamed cheese and three of the round swtrly cheeses that he and the mayor had picked at the night before.

The high, open-timbered roof of the old Guildhall fairly shook with the tumult while Ahab slept outside, guarding the cheeses and dreaming about roaming through subterranean caverns in pursuit of gingerbread cookies.

The thing seemed to hint at jewels with eyes in them and, pardon me, Jonathan when I say this, of cheeses of one phenomenal sort and another.

It would be a rotten thing indeed to suppose his cheeses were at the bottom of the Oriel or that the kegs, roped together, would drift oceanward on the tide and never be seen again.

Tied to it were all its fellow kegs, some empty, most filled with raisin cheeses, and all, apparently, sound as tubs.

Having been dipped in wax before packing, the cheeses, would no doubt have survived, leaks or no.

He knew, for example, the exact weight and value of his cheeses and, to the penny, the amount of Twombly Town coin in his sack.

Jonathan doubted that such a thing could be and blushed a great deal, assuring them that his cheeses were paltry things at best when compared to dwarf cheeses.

These dwarfs, anxiously awaiting their cheeses, prepared honeycakes in huge quantities, some for themselves, some for the elves that lived above in the Elfin Highlands, and some to trade for the round raisin cheeses which had come downriver from Twombly Town.

Jonathan had contemplated, one afternoon over his pipe, trading the secret of his raisin cheeses for the secret of the honeycakes thereby making the November trading unnecessary.

With Ahab trotting alongside or resting now and again just inside the door, Jonathan carried out some two or three dozen cheeses of various shapes and sizes including a half dozen crocks of creamed cheese and three of the round swirly cheeses that he and the mayor had picked at the night before.

Jonathan spent the rest of the day at market, trading cheeses for cabbages and hams and mushrooms and nets of onions and garlic.