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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Benjamin hid it under his cloak and hurried back to his own chamber like a schoolboy who has stolen a sweetmeat .
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He approached such matters slowly, obliquely, over wine and sweetmeats.
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Maya counts four kinds of sweetmeats in Corning casseroles on an end table.
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Mrs White really enjoys going with it and serving quarters of sweetmeats in paper pokes.
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Servants circulated with wines and sweetmeats.
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She garnished her built-up Trifle with strips of bright currant jelly, crystallised sweetmeats or flowers.
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These electric sweetmeats are lurid bouquets in a garden of watts.
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Wolsey finished the plate of sweetmeats and told us to sit.