And I’ve seen
sugar of his making, which, maybe, wasn’t as white as an old topgallant sail, but which my friend, Mistress Pettibones, within there, said had the true molasses smack to it; and you are not the one, Squire Dickens, to be told that Mistress Remarkable has a remarkable tooth for sweet things in her nut- grinder.”
"Drink it and I'll give you a lump of
sugar to take the bitter taste from your mouth."
"But you take it without
sugar?" she said, smiling all the time, as if everything she said and everything the others said was very amusing and had a double meaning.
"I don't understand what the moist
sugar has got to do with it, Sir."
When the colonel showed her the lump of
sugar, holding it between the thumb and forefinger of his right hand, she again uttered her little wild cry, and sprang toward him; then she stopped, struggling against the instinctive fear he caused her; she looked at the
sugar and turned away her head alternately, precisely like a dog whose master forbids him to touch his food until he has said a letter of the alphabet which he slowly repeats.
Button-Bright was glad the Candy Man stayed in the Throne Room, because the boy thought this guest smelled deliciously of wintergreen and maple
sugar.
Come, let's go up," said Anna, as she gave her favorite horse the
sugar the footman had brought her.
When he reached home he hid the rake in the tool house, but the
sugar he carried in to Marilla.
He looked at the vessel from which the silvery powder had come; it was certainly a sugar-basin; as unmistakably meant for
sugar as a champagne-bottle for champagne.
I took another draught of water with
sugar in it; but my stomach loathed the
sugar and brought it all up again; then I took a draught of water without
sugar, and that stayed with me; and I laid me down upon the bed, praying most heartily that it would please God to take me away; and composing my mind in hopes of it, I slumbered a while, and then waking, thought myself dying, being light with vapours from an empty stomach.
You'd be always into that
sugar if I warn't watching you."
Meserve's appearance, have you ever, in earlier years, sought the comforting society of the cook and hung over the kitchen table while she rolled out
sugar gingerbread?