"Sweeting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "No, sweeting," Robert said, gravely. "No. We have shared rose-red hours; you are made very comely; but there is one here more beautiful than you—than ...
— The Proud Prince • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... the Apple, the Crab, the Pippin, the Pomewater, the Apple-john, the Codling, the Caraway, the Leathercoat, and the Bitter-Sweeting. Of the Apple generally I need say nothing, except to notice that the name was not originally confined to the fruit now so called, but was a generic name applied to any fruit, as we still speak of the Love-apple, the Pine-apple,[20:1] ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
... day in Cheapside I saw some turtles in Mr. Sweeting's window, and was tempted to stay and look at them. As I did so I was struck not more by the defences with which they were hedged about, than by the fatuousness of trying to hedge that in at all which, if hedged thoroughly, ...
— The Humour of Homer and Other Essays • Samuel Butler
... Returning noiselessly,—herself a smiling phantom, with long, golden-brown hair rippling over her shoulders,—she would drop a trophy upon her little sisters' pillow, in the shape of a big, yellow apple that had dropped from "the Colonel's" "pumpkin sweeting" tree into the graveyard, ...
— A New England Girlhood • Lucy Larcom
... unto me an inestimable loss! O my good God, what had I done that thou shouldest thus punish me? Why didst thou not take me away before her, seeing for me to live without her is but to languish? Ah, Badebec, Badebec, my minion, my dear heart, my sugar, my sweeting, my honey, my little c— (yet it had in circumference full six acres, three rods, five poles, four yards, two foot, one inch and a half of good woodland measure), my tender peggy, my codpiece darling, ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais |
