Every conceivable kind of sweetmeat and relish is displayed in the brightly lit window. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunted Bookshop] Reference
Confetti, a kind of sweetmeat, even better than that made at Verdun, were very plentiful. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
When each kind of sweetmeat was finished, she skimmed it, and put it away to cool in enormous bowls before potting. From Wordnik.com. [Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know] Reference
Cocoa and chocolate are admissible only with the dainty, æsthetic varieties, in which fruit or some kind of sweetmeat is used. From Wordnik.com. [Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes] Reference
It is the autocracy's bribe and sweetmeat to them. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
He opened his handkerchief and took out a sweetmeat. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference
A heart pickled in gall cannot be called a sweetmeat. From Wordnik.com. [Wise or Otherwise] Reference
This is never used as bread, but commonly preserved as a sweetmeat. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
The Doctor tasted the sweetmeat, and pronounced it to be excellent. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
'They say that's land,' said he, 'but you d think it was a sweetmeat. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
Almost at once O Hara San and Taro were beguiled by a sweetmeat stall. From Wordnik.com. [Peeps at Many Lands: Japan] Reference
Some sort of spicy, delicious and sweetmeat is famous around the world. From Wordnik.com. [Banglalir Khabar Dabar] Reference
This is a very satisfactory little sweetmeat when one wants a foreign dish. From Wordnik.com. [The Khaki Kook Book A Collection of a Hundred Cheap and Practical Recipes Mostly from Hindustan] Reference
"Surely you are aware that Lucius Gavius has half a sweetmeat shop in his study?". From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
In a second the dog sprang out of Tyler's arms and swallowed the sweetmeat greedily. From Wordnik.com. [For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store] Reference
"Now the Elves know to fear us once more," Queen Savilla said, popping a sweetmeat into his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference
"Only this mornin 'she gave me the sweetmeat off' er plate to take to me consumptive brother Freddie.". From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
He ducks his head, as the misdirected sweetmeat approaches; he has an apt remark prompt for the occasion. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
I am but a very child, to be watched over and amused, to be wiled away from danger with a sweetmeat or a toy!. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
We searched the place for food, but all we could find was a little bread, and a few prepared sweetmeat cakes. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War] Reference
This is a new and very choice sweetmeat; and, so far as we know, is not to be found in any other recipe-book. From Wordnik.com. [Favorite Dishes : a Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book] Reference
Let me first inform you, however, that some hours previous, every dish and sweetmeat intended to be placed before his. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference
The itinerant sweetmeat vendor shown in the woodcut is a specimen of the class of Japanese most prone to superstition. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs] Reference
Put as much of the sweetmeat as you think you can enclose, fold over, make as fancy as you like, and either fry or bake. From Wordnik.com. [The Khaki Kook Book A Collection of a Hundred Cheap and Practical Recipes Mostly from Hindustan] Reference
They'd polished off the roasted apples and bread and were sampling each sweetmeat in turn when the carriage door flew open. From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
Tell the bearer not to forget to bring me a fairing, which is some ginger-bread, sweetmeat, hunting-nuts, and a pocket-book. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
"Do you care, Janet?" said he; and, rising on one arm, he lifted the glass, and finished its delicate sweetmeat with a gust. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
A sweetmeat is placed on the wheat-cake; a handsome young black-guard has climbed on to the top of the wall to see the dance. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
It pushed aside the cries of the sweetmeat sellers, and mounted above the cracked bell that proclaimed the continual auction of. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference
The name was given to these beds from their resemblance to a sweetmeat, known in Dutch as "banket," resembling almond hard-bake. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Wert thou to eat colocynth from the hand of the kind-hearted, it would relish better than a sweetmeat from that of the crabbed. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
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