Comfit [noun]

I had always, from earliest childhood, been outrageously fond of this delicate comfit.

Dora took courage beneath the caressing hand: "I like to be a comfit to mother best," she vouchsafed, brightly daring.

Of these early ordinaries the earliest known to be licensed goes as far back as 1634, when Samuel Cole, comfit-maker, kept it.

Comfit boxes—Boxes divided into compartments in which were rare spices, handed round with dessert.

They passed their jeweled comfit-boxes one to another and whispered their content in the head butterfly's practical prudence.

Brilliana clapped her hands like a child that has been promised some coveted comfit.

With an irrational rapidity the Sealyham disposed of the first comfit he had been given for more than six months.

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

"Let us eat together," he said, and dropped a comfit into his own mouth.

Dicky lighted a cigarette and tossed a comfit at a pariah dog.