She stopped at a confectioner's and ordered a huge box of bonbons for the children in Iberville. She slipped a card in the box, on which she scribbled a tender message and sent an abundance of kisses.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
What matter! The dog that runs never starves!* Come, let's spend it all! You shall treat.'
* /Chuquel sos pirela, cocal terela. "The dog that runs finds a bone."--Gipsy proverb. "We had turned back toward Seville. At the entrance of the /Calle de la Serpiente/ she bought a dozen oranges, which she made me put into my handkerchief. A little farther on she bought a roll, a sausage, and a bottle of manzanilla. Then, last of all, she turned into a confectioner's shop.英文原著 · 《Carmen》
Immediately the bride, uncovering it, found therein sweetmeats, cakes, and those delicious confections to which the ladies are so partial. But of one of them--some curious devotee--seeing a little piece of silk, pulled it towards her, and exposed to view the habitation of the human compass, to the great confusion of the prelate, for laughter rang round the table like a discharge of artillery.英文原著 · 《Droll Stories-2》
Then followed a long list of lighter delicacies; gallons of ice-cream with every possible variety of flavour; flour and eggs, cream and sugar, prepared in every way known to New York confectioners. Kisses and Mottoes were insisted upon. Then came the fruits, beginning with peaches and grapes, and concluding with bananas and other tropical productions, until at length even Mrs. Hilson's "ambition" was thus far satisfied.英文原著 · 《Elinor Wyllys-1》
"The first thing I shall do, Emmeline, will be to write a letter expressly to Alonzo, to insist upon the confectioner's procuring the boned turkey."英文原著 · 《Elinor Wyllys-1》
He tints it with gay lines of green and pink and rose, and puts it in the confectioner's glass windows, where you buy--what? Poison? No, indeed! Candy, at prices to suit the purchasers. So this good and pious little book has such a preponderance of goodness and piety that the poison in it will not be detected, except by chemical analysis. It will go down sweetly, like grapes of Beulah. Nobody will suspect he is poisoned; but just so far as it reaches and touches, the social dyspepsia will be aggravated. I submit a few atoms of the poison revealed by careful examination.英文原著 · 《Gala-Days》