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Examples
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So did the occasional sugar-candy castle where an ogre or a princess might live.
Venom Joan Brady 2010
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And naturally she was sugar-candy all over the Clinic.
They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010
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Then the boy displayed to him his bosom, saying, Look at my breasts which be goodlier than the breasts of maidens and my lip-dews are sweeter than sugar-candy.
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At nightfall they lighted waxen candles in candlesticks of gold studded with gems and set on dishes of confections and fruits of sugar-candy.
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Arise forthright and take thee three fat fowls and three ounces314 of sugar-candy and two small jugs which do thou fill with wine; also a cup.
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You were brought almost an infant to his chambers in Brick Court, and he gave you some sugar-candy, for the doctor was always good to children.
Roundabout Papers 2006
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Everybody else who has tried, that I have seen, got carried away by the romance, and ended in a kind of sugar-candy sham epic, and the whole effect was lost — there was no etching, no human grin, consequently no conviction.
Vailima Letters 2005
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Charge an honest woman with picking thy pocket! why, thou whoreson, impudent, embossed rascal, if there were anything in thy pocket but tavern-reckonings, memorandums of bawdy-houses, and one poor penny-worth of sugar-candy to make thee long-winded, if thy pocket were enriched with any other injuries but these, I am a villain: and yet you will stand to if; you will not pocket up wrong: art thou not ashamed?
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The former is compound of Radix China Qrient, with gum mastich and sugar-candy, equal parts; about a dram of this compound is taken once a day, early in the morning.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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She was then four years old, and came up to him jumping and laughing, to take him about the neck, and ask him for some sugar-candy.
The Blue Fairy Book 2003
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