Here are millhands and other labourers returning from their daily labours, merchants faring home from their offices, beggars, hawkers, fruit-sellers and sweetmeat-vendors, while crowds enter the cookshops and sherbet shops, and groups of Arabs and others settle themselves for recreation on the threshold of the coffee-sellers' domain.

He was full of life and health till the other day when I left him on the threshold sucking a sweetmeat.

The most which your bounty from you can subtract Is an apple, a sweetmeat, a toy; For so easy a virtue, so trifling an act, You are paid with an innocent joy.

As a preserved sweetmeat, however, it is esteemed one of the most agreeable.

Barberries are also used as a dry sweetmeat, and in sugarplums or comfits; are pickled with vinegar, and are used for various culinary purposes.

The rind is very thick, and, when candied with sugar, forms an excellent sweetmeat.

Seville oranges are also preserved whole as a sweetmeat.

RICH SWEETMEAT GINGERBREAD NUTS. 1759.

" He came through safely; for at the same moment the musical "Cling-clank" of a sweetmeat-seller's bell turned the game into a race.

Perhaps, however, it is best to keep them as a sort of sweetmeat, to be taken on, high days and holidays only.

I would plant a great many currants; the fruit is good, and they make a pretty sweetmeat.

They carry their food in bundles and pots, and buy sweets from the native sweetmeat-sellers, and drink the roadside water.

Presently the two commenced talking to each other in what to me sounded like French, and next, in a conciliating tone, they offered me a peculiar sweetmeat, which I accepted.

The clear water inside will gradually harden into that sweetmeat which little boys eat off stalls and barrows in the street; the first delicate deposit of which is the cream in the green nut.

Their Christmas gift consists of a sweetmeat, some fruit, a glass of water, or some insignificant present.

bibinka: A sweetmeat made of sugar or molasses and rice-flour, commonly sold in the small shops.

Then, seeing him so sadly downcast, I (to give a sweetmeat after a bitter draught) bade him take the matter not too much to heart, promising that, with a little practice, he would soon acquire a habit of self-restraint, and so all would go well.

Picnics, music, story-telling, kalyan and cigarette smoking, sweetmeat-making, and the bath, together with somewhat less innocent pastimes, form the sum total of a Persian concubine's amusements.

I bought a pound or so of the sweetmeat to pacify him, and, if possible, glean some information about the fair one, but my advances were of no avail.

[Footnote G: A natural sweetmeat like nougat, found and manufactured in Persia.]

In a second the dog sprang out of Tyler's arms and swallowed the sweetmeat greedily.

When she had eaten, he told her what sweetmeat it was she had so relished.

The Duke of Guise pulled up his cloak as if to wrap himself well in it, took his hat, gloves, and his sweetmeat-box, and went out of the room, saying, "Adieu, gentlemen," with a gravity free from any appearance of mistrust.

It has the taste of a delicious sweetmeat, with an almond flavour, and is so luscious that much cannot be eaten of it.

A handful of dates, a cup of camel's milk Is dearer to me, dearer to me Than any sweetmeat in the city walls.