On the table were all the dishes, confections, and beverages preferred by our parents.
She pulled his hand from behind his back and there was revealed the missing box of confections.
She was exceedingly fond of chocolates and other sweets, and was never without some confection in her possession.
The state dining-table was beautifully decorated with ornaments of gold and silver, dishes, glasses, flowers, bouquets, etc., and was fairly loaded down with fruits, berries, ice-cream, confections, and wines.
We were again invited to an entertainment, at which many different kinds of confections were served up.
Examplesofconfection
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He offers new examples of his ownconfectionas models for new composition, a prescriptive rhetorical strategy.
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Certain basic questions remain unanswered (how documents were drawn up and written, the role the petitioner played in theirconfection), but the investigation offers many interesting results.
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It comes from blood collected in slaughterhouses, citrated and sent to factories where the albumen is extracted and used in confections.
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I have seen a lot of questions about whether chocolate biscuits are confections or biscuits.
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The range of industry stretches from paint to a well-known chocolateconfectionwhich helps us to work, rest and play.
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Is the only advice he can give them that they must never eat any confections made with albumen from blood?
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All those aspects are entirely missing from theconfectionthat is the dome.
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The citizens charter is nothing more than a glossyconfection.
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But the essential elements of theconfectionare clear.
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I interpret it as the collective name for sweetmeats and confections.
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I can think of few worse insults than that—the great whales turned into aconfectionfor fat kids.
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So fudge is a necessaryconfection.
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It is a very sweet, spreadable, marshmallow-likeconfection.
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A variety of candies, desserts, and confections are made with caramel: brittles, nougats, pralines, crme brle, crme caramel, and caramel apples.
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A chocolate bar is aconfectionin bar form comprising some or all of the following components: cocoa solids, cocoa butter, sugar, and/or milk.
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