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

I gave it a little comfit, and it turned up its dusky countenance to her and then to me, taking my sweetmeat and at the same time kissing my hand.

From An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

Another comfit of a book for young people, but with fewer plums of romance in it, was Evenings at Home by Dr. Aikin and Mrs. Barbauld.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.

With an irrational rapidity the Sealyham disposed of the first comfit he had been given for more than six months.

From Berry And Co. by Yates, Dornford

They have vinegar also, and a kind of comfit like what the Arabs call Natef, and some others.

From The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) by Mendoza, Juan Gonzalez de