When we had finished our sweetmeats or fruit she would accompany us to the stoep, bidding us thank our mother for her gift and sending quaint, old-fashioned messages to her and the Father. Then she would turn and enter the house, closing the door behind, so that it became once more a place of mystery.
I enjoy eating sweetmeats during festive seasons.
She bought some sweetmeats for the children as a treat.
The bakery specializes in making delicious sweetmeats.
Grandma always has a jar of sweetmeats on the kitchen counter.
The sweetmeat shop sells a variety of traditional sweets.
He gifted her a box of assorted sweetmeats for her birthday.
The wedding reception had a dessert table filled with sweetmeats.
During Diwali, families exchange boxes of sweetmeats as gifts.
She learned how to make traditional sweetmeats from her grandmother.
The sweetmeat shop is known for its unique and flavorful treats.
" All of you" ? Leo shrugged. " Well, Rosey will remain. Perhaps I'll wake our little sweetmeat and make a woman of her" .
Then to while away the time, she took out some chocolate which she began eating with her bread, for she always had her pockets full of sweetmeats.
That such an indulgent sweetmeat should be most closely associated with a place of profound piety seems both incongruous and yet oddly appropriate for the Islamic Republic.
If he can get back soon enough he goes out again, after a hurried meal, to the sweetmeat seller's, where he assists in beating sugar for wafers.
" The gold I grant you, " the dwarf said, relieved that he was not about to drown in a gout of half-digested eels and sweetmeats, " but the Rock is mine" .
So Meg wrestled alone with the refractory sweetmeats all that hot summer day, and at five o'clock sat down in her topsy–turvey kitchen, wrung her bedaubed hands, lifted up her voice and wept.
So Meg wrestled alone with the refractory sweetmeats all that hot summer day, and at five o'clock sat down in her topsy-turvey kitchen, wrung her bedaubed hands, lifted up her voice and wept.
He began talking of the delight of the children, and of that age when the sudden appearance of the Christmas-tree, decorated with fruit and sweetmeats, and lighted up with wax candles, causes such transports of joy.
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