1 "Try a hot cake," said Mammy inexorably.
2 Scarlett sopped the wheat cake in the gravy and put it in her mouth.
3 And three desserts, so everyone might have his choice, chocolate layer cake, vanilla blanc mange and pound cake topped with sweet whipped cream.
4 The heavy old mahogany table, spread with cake and decanters, still presided in the empty-looking dining room but it was scratched and the broken legs showed signs of clumsy repair.
5 She saw Frank coming across the floor toward her with a glass of blackberry wine in his hand and a morsel of cake on a saucer and she pulled her face into a smile.
6 Selden was rummaging in a cupboard for the cake.
7 "I do," he assured her, emerging from the cupboard with the sought-for cake.
8 "You shouldn't dine with her on wash-days," said Selden, cutting the cake.
9 Then they distributed hot buttered rolls, coffee poured from an enamel-ware pot, stuffed olives, potato salad, and angel's-food cake.
10 She gimme a hunk o cake, one time.
11 She nervously pushed away her cake and stewed apricots.
12 But at the supper Maud was one of the waitresses; she bustled with platters of cake, she was pleasant to old women; and to Erik she gave no attention at all.
13 She baked either pies or cake for us every day, unless, for a change, she made my favourite pudding, striped with currants and boiled in a bag.
14 Grandmother began to make the icing for a chocolate cake, and Otto again filled the house with the exciting, expectant song of the plane.
15 At supper the men ate like vikings, and the chocolate cake, which I had hoped would linger on until tomorrow in a mutilated condition, disappeared on the second round.