Example Sentences

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Well-buttered toast with a well-sugared cup of tea is not to be despised.

From Six Women and the Invasion by Yerta, Gabrielle

It is dipped in well-sugared water, which adds about eight per cent. to its weight.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various

When done, spread over the top, while hot, a pint of well-sugared raspberries.

From The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Gillette, F. L. (Fanny Lemira)

Mother Brigitta had resolved to do the flax-retailer, who had brought her that rich gain, a kindness in her turn; and was treating her with a well-sugared rice-pap, and a quarter-stoop of Spanish sack.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas

Laura had always the claret pitcher on her dinner table, too; and claret and water, well-sugared, went deliciously with the savory stew.

From Real Folks by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)