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Definition of Jonnycake
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jonnycake
Literary usage of Jonnycake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Jonny-cake Papers of "Shepherd Tom": Together with Reminiscences of by Thomas Robinson Hazard, Rowland Gibson Hazard (1915)
"On the left side of the picture is printed in large italics, the following extracts
from Shepherd Tom's "Rhode Island jonnycake, first baking: " " The ..."
2. Thomas Hazard, Son of Robt Call'd College Tom: A Study of Life in by Caroline Hazard (1893)
"The virtues of Rhode Island jonnycake have been celebrated by College Tom's
grandson, Shepherd Tom,1 as he delighted to call himself, and when he says Rhode ..."
3. Logan, the Last of the Race of Shikellemus, Chief of the Cayuga Nation: A by Joseph Doddridge (1868)
"They had no toast that I know of but what was made of bread, and not much of that
nather, for in them days we had but little bread beside jonnycake and pone ..."
4. American Patriotic Prose, with Notes and Biographies by Augustus White Long (1917)
"... and she says: "'Oh, Mis Arthur, I'm makin' jonnycake, an' I can't tell whether
you put in soda or baking powder. Which do you? ..."
5. Pacific States Reports by California Supreme Court, Idaho Supreme Court, Kansas Supreme Court, Montana Supreme Court, Nevada Supreme Court, Oregon Supreme Court, Utah Supreme Court, Washington (State). Supreme Court (1912)
"On the eleventh of March, 1867, Isaac jonnycake executed and delivered a deed of
conveyance for the* land now in dispute to Kate L. Simpson. ..."
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