Sentence examples for a quantity of sweets from inspiring English sources

He recalled that two cents would buy a quantity of sweets, as a dime did in Freeman's day, and, he feared, it would take a quarter to do in the future.

We did not have to go to the quarry on Christmas Day, and we were permitted to purchase a small quantity of sweets".

There was a quantity of things that men hated.

That bidding inevitably involved them obtaining a quantity of drugs.

"Forget quality; aim now to get a quantity of answers.

It can be hard to visualize a quantity of water.

Some unfortunate wretch had had a quantity of clothing stolen.

He accumulalted a quantity of leterature on architecture and equipment.

He had joined forces with Manfred Krankl, the Austrian-born founder of the Sine Qua Non winery in California, to make a small quantity of extraordinary sweet California wines, called Mr. K.

In his hungry early years as a bricklayer, soldier and actor he was tall and lean – a "hollow-cheeked scrag", Thomas Dekker called him – but by middle age the celebrated playwright and poet had swelled to corpulence on the free dinners of patronage and gargantuan quantities of sweet Canary wine.

Buy a lot of sweets.