First recorded in 1795–1805
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He trained me just once too often, but that was in London, in a shop near Oxford Circus, and it was a Bath bun that made me restless.
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix
By four o'clock there was I sitting outside that confectioner's, wearing enough pennies to buy the shop out, and yet not a Bath bun to the good!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914 by Various
One day she fancied a Bath bun; sent the new maid to the pastry-cook's.
From A Simpleton by Reade, Charles
It was evident, however, that she was a little lady, though she wore a badly made frock, and her hat sat like a hard, extraneous Bath bun on the top of her neat head.
From The Port of Adventure by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
Here Stephen lifted from the mantelpiece what looked like a fossil Bath bun, but was actually a clay tablet covered with minute indented writing.
From The Mystery of 31 New Inn by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
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