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n. (alternative spelling of apple pie English)
Usage examples of "apple-pie".
Someone had turned the sheets back halfway to make an apple-pie bed.
When I forbade apple-pie beds, then everybody's clean clothes turned up tied in wet knots.
A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.
Roderick knew farming like the palm of his hand, and they had an excellent agent who, with real money strength behind him, would put things in apple-pie order before you knew it.
I promised Uncle Teddy that you shouldn't see it till it was all in apple-pie order.
It had evidently been newly tuned and put in apple-pie order, but, perfect as it was, I think the real charm lay in the happiest of all happy faces which leaned over it, as Beth lovingly touched the beautiful black and white keys and pressed the bright pedals.
Every thing was put in apple-pie order in and about the old house.
She slammed the lid shut, glanced around one final time to make sure the mobile home was in apple-pie order, and grabbed her suitcase.
The room was in apple-pie order, with the afternoon sun slanting in through the modem casement windows which Wolfe had admired.
There was our fifteen sail of the line all in apple-pie order, packed up as close as dominoes, and every man on board of them longing to come to the scratch.
Cobbold's affairs in apple-pie order for another day had been done, and he took the six-ten train back to his Great Neck home.
Here was a man about whom there could be no mistake: a man of an unquestionable and unassailable manner, in apple-pie order, dressed not with neatness merely but elegance, ready with his passport, at a word, and well supplied with money: a man the Commissary would have doffed his hat to on chance upon the highway.
You can't tell whether you are eating apple-pie or German sausage, or strawberries and cream.