How To Use Sweetmeat In A Sentence
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The name was given to these beds from their resemblance to a sweetmeat, known in Dutch as "banket," resembling almond hard-bake.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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asked the Countess, hoping to give him a sweetmeat or money to alleviate his evident suffering.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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Rum, Tongues, Hams, Beef, Geese, Turkes and Fowls both drest and raw, with many luxuries of the table as sweetmeats, pickles & . . .
A Renegade History of the United States
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When we had finished our sweetmeats or fruit she would accompany us to the stoep, bidding us thank our mother for her gift and sending quaint, old-fashioned messages to her and the Father. Then she would turn and enter the house, closing the door behind, so that it became once more a place of mystery.
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Finally, ‘sweetmeats’ like halva and burfi can often round off a festive meal.
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This involved all kinds of sweetmeats, tarts, spiced cakes, and gingerbread, consumed with sweet wines.
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It has some trade in a pretty but not valuable “seaweed,” or variegated lacquer, called Aomori lacquer, but not actually made there, its own speciality being a sweetmeat made of beans and sugar.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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Not that these nuns are not good cooks and bakers: witness the delicate sweetmeats, biscuits and pastry they offer to strangers on such festival days as the one just described, the fruit-preserves in blocks sold for their sustenance by the nuns at Funchal, Madeira, and the fairy frostwork of sugar seen on great occasions in French convents.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
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Tell the bearer not to forget to bring me a fairing, which is some ginger-bread, sweetmeat, hunting-nuts, and a pocket-book.
Highways & Byways in Sussex
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They had not found a real place in a set meal, except among the miscellaneous sweetmeats offered as dainties at the end.
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Sister Celestine had invented a new kind of comfit which she begged Euphrosyne to try, leaving a paper of sweetmeats on her table for that purpose.
The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
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The cloth was removed as in England, and the table covered with dried fruits, confectionary, and coffee; a tall silver epergne supporting small bottles of capillaire, and sweetmeats in cut glass.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808
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After which I repair to the bazaar, purchase meat with one dirhem, rakee with another, others go for fruit and flowers, cakes, sweetmeats, bread, oils for my lamps, and the remainder I spend in wine.
The Pacha of Many Tales
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When we had finished our sweetmeats or fruit she would accompany us to the stoep, bidding us thank our mother for her gift and sending quaint, old-fashioned messages to her and the Father. Then she would turn and enter the house, closing the door behind, so that it became once more a place of mystery.
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Aram. pistheqa-pesag (Dan., xiii, 54), the lentisk, Pistacia lentiscus, common in the East, which exudes a fragrant resin extensively used to flavour sweetmeats, wine, etc.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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It was doubtless in order to relieve this saccharine and "mellisonant" monotony that he thought fit to intersperse these interminable droppings of natural or artificial perfume with others of the rankest and most intolerable odour: but a diet of alternate sweetmeats and emetics is for the average of eaters and drinkers no less unpalatable than unwholesome.
The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2
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Xenocles affirmed, that ripe fruit had usually a pleasing, vellicating sapor, and thereby provoked the appetite better than sauces or sweetmeats; for sick men of a vitiated stomach usually recover it by eating fruit.
Symposiacs
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Their glass display counters are full of neatly arranged, creamy-looking biscuits, cakes, homemade sweets, delicious savouries and brightly coloured sweetmeats.
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It was a delicious kind of sweetmeat, the like of which he had never tasted before; and the strangest thing about it was that it took his hunger and thirst away.
The Book of Stories for the Story-teller
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Enter this mystical city through a narrow, cobbled street where street vendors selling everything from sweetmeats to silver trinkets and leather slippers call out to passing trade.
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Navigius, Augustin's brother, an excellent man of whom we know nothing save that he had a bad liver -- the icterus of the African colonist -- and that on this account he abstained from sweetmeats.
Saint Augustin
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A lady under an electric blue umbrella gave him some of the sweetmeat she was selling.
THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
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Italian food, besides certain sweetmeat and oil, it is really dare not flatter.
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The word maudlin (67), and the complicated mixed metaphor in which the gilded toy of line 68 apparently becomes a sweetmeat in 69, suggest that Shelley is subtly alluding to the Prince of Wales's sentimental love affair with the twice-widowed Maria Fitzherbert (1756-1837), a Roman Catholic whom he could not wed legally without forfeiting the crown.
The Devil's Walk (Broadside version)
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A college professor, well provided with cod, and powdered and prinked up, having a while discoursed with a great lady, taking his leave with these words, Thank you, sweetmeat; she cried, There needs no thanks, sour-sauce.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Them he branded, as hypocritical materialists, and the country for pride in her sweetmeat plethora of them: -- mixed with an ancient Hebrew fear of offence to an inscrutable Lord, eccentrically appeasable through the dreary iteration of the litany of sinfulness.
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 3
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He was down by the river that night, hawking his sweetmeats.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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Here and there cluster flocks of light, portable booths, each also with a swaying lantern, where steaming tea is sold in thimble-cups; where saki may be drunk hot and hot, poured from long-necked porcelain bottles, or trays of queer, toothsome-looking sweetmeats are to be had for coins of infinitesimal value.
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
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The word maudlin (67), and the complicated mixed metaphor in which the gilded toy of line 68 apparently becomes a sweetmeat in
Annotations
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Go up into the town, and buy for me white bread of the best; and right good flesh, or poulaine if it may be, already cooked and dight; and, withal, the best wine that thou mayst get, and sweetmeats for thy baby; and when thou comest back, we will sit together and dine here.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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These included the distribution of huge amounts of various sweets at durbar or court during "public" holidays such as naw ruz or New Year's and other celebrations including the Islamic calendar holidays or eids, its nearly unlimited availability to accompany the tea that was continually consumed by those attending regular court sessions, its use during life course rituals for local notables such as weddings and births when Abd al-Rahman distributed bountiful helpings of sweetmeats to the family/families in question, and the huge supplies of sugar-laden drinks and edibles presented directly to domestic and foreign state guests during their stays in Kabul.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
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A side table is laden with the finest sweetmeats the Glasgow South Co - operative Society can offer - Madeira cake, sultana cake, cherry cake, and butter shortbread.
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“’Twas a certain sweetmeat-seller who drugged me and took the gear from me; but where is he gone?”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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So Frisk went back and filled his basket with white bread, and red wine, and every kind of sweetmeat, until it was almost too heavy for him to carry.
The Red Fairy Book
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When we had finished our sweetmeats or fruit she would accompany us to the stoep, bidding us thank our mother for her gift and sending quaint, old-fashioned messages to her and the Father. Then she would turn and enter the house, closing the door behind, so that it became once more a place of mystery.
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Candy sweetmeats, sugar, ice cream, condiments, tea and coffee should also be avoided.
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After the savouries came the sweetmeats; marchpane and gingerbread and little coffers of pastry filled with sugared currants and topped with yellow cream.
Dearly Beloved
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Immense vases and candelabras of alabaster were placed at different distances on the table, and hundreds of porcelain dishes were filled with sweetmeats and fruits – sweetmeats of every description, from the little meringue called "mouthful for a queen," to the blancmanger made of suprême de volaille and milk.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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After which I repair to the bazaar, purchase meat with one dirhem, rakee with another, others go for fruit and flowers, cakes, sweetmeats, bread, oil for my lamps, and the remainder I spend in wine.
The Pacha of Many Tales
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Another said, "Be comforted, Yussuf, three days will soon pass away, and then you will relish your kabobs, and your rakee, your sweetmeats and your wine, with greater pleasure, having been so long deprived of them.
The Pacha of Many Tales
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Here we ate sweetmeats and cakes and drank rosolio, which is any kind of light liqueur.
Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions
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When we had finished our sweetmeats or fruit she would accompany us to the stoep, bidding us thank our mother for her gift and sending quaint, old-fashioned messages to her and the Father. Then she would turn and enter the house, closing the door behind, so that it became once more a place of mystery.
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Moreover, carrot juice still has sweetmeat or fat alimental desire with restraining.
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When the dance, which was generally a long waltz, was over, he seated his partner, and then went to a little counter at the end of the room and bought his dulcinea a plate of the candies and sweetmeats provided.
She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
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Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
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When it comes to finding such Australian sweetmeats as witchetty grubs and honey pot ants, Aboriginal women are masters at divining underground hideouts.
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Damascus, 463 and see what hath become of the cook whose sweetmeats we ate and whose head we broke, for indeed he was kind to us and we entreated him scurvily.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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These items included decanters, beakers, essence-bottles, cruets, wash-hand bowls, sweetmeat saucers, epergnes, vases, lemonade cups, ‘gugglets’, and ‘four elegant cut candlesticks enamel'd mosaik work very rich’.
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Another said, "Be comforted, Yussuf, three days will soon pass away, and then you will relish your kabobs and your rakee, your sweetmeats and your wine, with greater pleasure, having been so long deprived of them.
The Pacha of Many Tales
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Crunching such a delectable treat as a Pitmaston Pineapple, an old "sweetmeat" -- or small, sweet apple -- is the most enjoyable exercise I've come across, and I'm ready to plant a whole orchard of my own, if I can find a place to put it.
Chicago Reader
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Cocoa and chocolate are admissible only with the dainty, æsthetic varieties, in which fruit or some kind of sweetmeat is used.
Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes
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When we had finished our sweetmeats or fruit she would accompany us to the stoep, bidding us thank our mother for her gift and sending quaint, old-fashioned messages to her and the Father. Then she would turn and enter the house, closing the door behind, so that it became once more a place of mystery.
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When it comes to finding such Australian sweetmeats as witchetty grubs and honey pot ants, Aboriginal women are masters at divining underground hideouts.
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I had the faults common to my age, was talkative, a glutton, and sometimes a liar; made no scruple of stealing sweetmeats, fruits, or, indeed, any kind of eatables; but never took delight in mischievous waste, in accusing others, or tormenting harmless animals.
The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Warnings about consuming too much sugar get pushed to the back of the mind during festival time, when everyone is cooking and distributing delicious sweetmeats and savouries.
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Every conceivable kind of sweetmeat and relish is displayed in the brightly lit window.
The Haunted Bookshop
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So she arose and served up to him whatso remained of meat and sweetmeat and he fell to morselling [FN#164] them with mouthfuls and soothing them with soft words till they had their sufficiency of victual, after which she, the mother-in - law, removed the tray.
Arabian nights. English
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Whereupon they fell to playing parchesi and eating sweetmeats.
Sacrifice
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The itinerant sweetmeat vendor shown in the woodcut is a specimen of the class of Japanese most prone to superstition.
Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs
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Pudding was rose - flavoured chum chum sweetmeats, lachedar rabri, a milk sweet, and tila kulfi - Indian ice cream on a stick, delivered by cart.
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All that was lacking was our traditional sweetmeat, shortbread in a tartan tin.
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Cake/dessert, or sweetmeat baskets are extremely popular and apart from the converted liners already mentioned, dismantled epergnes and converted goblets are the two most common deceptions.
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In public buildings, visitors are implored, through the same agency, to squirt the essence of their quids, or ‘plugs,’ as I have heard them called by gentlemen learned in this kind of sweetmeat, into the national spittoons, and not about the bases of the marble columns.
American Notes for General Circulation
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The fruits are eaten stewed, candied, in sweetmeats, and in a jelly.
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The lunch was copious, and consisted, I remember, of all such dishes as are generally considered mischievous and too good for the schoolboy digestion -- lobster mayonnaise, cold game sausages, an immense veal and ham pie farced with eggs and numberless delicious flavours; besides sauces, kickshaws, creams, and sweetmeats.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
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When each kind of sweetmeat was finished, she skimmed it, and put it away to cool in enormous bowls before potting.
Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
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One man took his sweetmeat and hurled it back at Cibber, hitting him hard in the face.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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We learn of the medicinal importance of poultry and of the ritual significance of sponge cake and sweetmeats.
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They sat in mirth and good cheer till noon, when they brought them up the midday meal, all manner meats and sweetmeats of the very best; and they ate and drank costly sherbets and perfumed themselves thereafter with rose-water and scented woods.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
