sweetmeat

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Up to the blackout, The Sweetmeat Saga offers the pleasure of seeing a minor talent at the top of his form.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then a friend introduced him to what FitzGerald dubbed "the Sweetmeat, Childish, Oriental World" of the Persian language.

From Time Magazine Archive

A man, however, can at any rate be regulated, and, at need, "run in," which it seems that the Automatic Cigarette and Sweetmeat Machines now so much in vogue cannot.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93., October 1, 1887 by Various

"Haláwah"=sweetmeat, meaning an entertainment such as men give to their friends after sickness or a journey. it is technically called as above, "The Sweetmeat of Safety."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Sweetmeat sellers, with trays of horrible looking filth, made seemingly of insects, clarified butter, and sugar, dodge through the crowd dispensing their abominable looking but seemingly much relished wares.

From Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter by Inglis, James