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
Dora took courage beneath the caressing hand: "I like to be a comfit to mother best," she vouchsafed, brightly daring.
From A Sheaf of Corn by Mary E. Mann
I had always, from earliest childhood, been outrageously fond of this delicate comfit.
From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train
"Ah, mamma," exclaim'd Emma, as home they return'd, "Ev'ry penny you give me I'll save; Neither gingerbread, comfit, nor nut will I buy, Till a basket of Jem's I can have."
From The Keepsake or, Poems and Pictures for Childhood and Youth by Anonymous
The great tigress instantly bounded forward like an obedient hound, and placed its fore-paws on her knees, while she playfully held a sugared comfit high above its head.
From Ardath by Marie Corelli
