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

You expected me to protest it daily: to repeat the tale as a child repeats its lesson for a comfit.

From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.

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.

She coaxed me to endure, and called me her little Miss Honey-bee, but would not promise me a comfit; so I ran away before my cap was tied on.

From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

"True, my sweet bird, true," answered the knight, picking a comfit from his gold drageoir.

From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir