As a child she was very fond of ice-cream, and I used often to take her to a confectioner's. Ice-cream was for her the type of everything delightful. If she wanted to praise me she would say: "You are as nice as cream, papa." We used to call one of her little fingers "pistachio ice," the next, "cream ice," the third "raspberry," and so on. Usually when she came in to say good-morning to me I used to sit her on my knee, kiss her little fingers, and say:英文原著 · 《The Wife and Other Stories》
Length -- 5 to 5.4 inches. About an inch smaller than the English sparrow. Male and Female -- A cream-yellow line over the eye; centre of crown, shoulders, and lesser wing coverts yellowish. Head blackish; rust-colored feathers, with small black spots on back of the neck; an orange mark before the eye. All other upper parts varied red, brown, cream, and black, with a drab wash. Underneath brownish drab on breast, shading to soiled white, and without streaks. Dusky, even, pointed tail feathers have grayish-white outer margins. Range -- Eastern North America, from British provinces to Cuba.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
THIRD POET (squeezing a cream-puff gently): How it laughs! Till its very cream runs over!英文原著 · 《Cyrano de Bergerac》
Then he went--per schedule--to the basement to help freeze the ice-cream for our guests. You notice that we omitted ice-cream from the menu.英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
Then followed a long list of lighter delicacies; gallons of ice-cream with every possible variety of flavour; flour and eggs, cream and sugar, prepared in every way known to New York confectioners. Kisses and Mottoes were insisted upon. Then came the fruits, beginning with peaches and grapes, and concluding with bananas and other tropical productions, until at length even Mrs. Hilson's "ambition" was thus far satisfied.英文原著 · 《Elinor Wyllys-1》
The crowd then shook hands all around, the music played, and lemonade and ice-cream were brought out from their hiding-places, and all went merry as the milkman's bell. As we said before, Flipper is in luck. He is a distinguished. young man. He will reach home during the present week, and it is to be hoped that his friends here are ready to give him an ice-cream lunch, or something of that kind."英文原著 · 《Henry Ossian Flipper》