comfit

Example Sentences

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And he bought a round red lacquered comfit dish with a cover, and in this he put sesame cakes and larded sweets and he put the box on the table.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

"What is that to me?" cried the proud Veronese, she who had broken the comfit dish.

From International Short Stories: French by Cheneviere, A.

Then I saw the beautifully cut lips of my judge part, that the voice might slide forth, and, taking a comfit, he tittered, with unchanging tint and sweetest tone, the three words, "Apply the question."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various

Then she had laughed; but a comfit dish of marvelous workmanship was shattered between her nervous fingers.

From International Short Stories: French by Cheneviere, A.

They have vinegar also, and a kind of comfit, like that called Natef by the Arabs and some others.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert