sweetings

“And ivory love-rings, so that your sweetings may long delight in your attentions.”

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

Early in the season were the soft yellow sweetings; then the streaked red and green "Northern Spies"; and last of all the snow-apples with their contrast of deep crimson outside and white flesh within.

The Adventures of Bobby Orde Stewart Edward White 1909

There were great pound sweetings, full of the pride of mere bigness; long purple gilly-flowers, craftily hiding their mealy joys under a sad-colored skin; and the Hubbardston, a portly creature quite unspoiled by the prosperity of growth, and holding its lovely scent and flavor like an individual charm.

Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life Alice Brown 1902

There'll be goodly store of sweetings for a dainty little elf;

The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

"I suppose those pound sweetings that used to be in that farthest bin were eaten up months ago?"

A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

I was Elijah, and my attendants were the ravens who plied me with sweetings in all stages of development until I could not have swallowed another to save the combined kingdoms of Judah and Israel.

When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood Marion Harland 1876

I was ill all night after the surfeit, but I bore the sweetings no grudge for my misplaced confidence in the human stomach.

When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood Marion Harland 1876

I cannot choose but think never were two such sweetings as

Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall Emily Sarah Holt 1864

When I first read about the apples of the Hesperides, my idea of them was that they were like the Colonel's "pumpkin-sweetings."

A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) Lucy Larcom 1858

They be not righteous actions that make a righteous man; nor be they evil actions that make a wicked man: for a tree must be a sweeting tree before it yield sweetings; 23 and a crab tree before it bring forth crabs. 24

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658