sweetings
- plural of sweeting.
Example Sentences
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Golden Porters, crystalline and winy, were to be had in their brief season; and succulent sweetings, to bake with molasses; and gilliflowers, purple and mealy, and little scarlet sapsons, of which one eats without counting.
From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Let’s go get some of those summer sweetings.
From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Ritchie, Lily Munsell
I cannot choose but think never were two such sweetings as Aubrey and his cousin Lettice Murthwaite.
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Holt, Emily Sarah
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.
From The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Brehm, Worth
Nay, come in, then, sweetings both; come in and sit ye 62down: little Willie has been in the garden long enough, though you know I grudge you not the flowers, wench.
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William
