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 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.

As to the comfit, it was eaten by one of the dogs, who had come down earliest of all.

From The Brownies and Other Tales by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty