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.
Despite this popular belief, there is little direct evidence that obese individuals eat excessive quantities of sweet foods.
We did not have to go to the quarry on Christmas Day, and we were permitted to purchase a small quantity of sweets".
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.
It may therefore be worth while placing on record an observation made by me in 1907, when examining daily and closely a large quantity of sweet-peas.
Just as in Beaujolais, which rested its business on marketing the popular nouveau wines until the public stopped buying them, sherry depended on exporting vast quantities of cheap, sweet wines.
Minute quantities of late-harvested sweet wines had always been made in Alsace, but by the mid-20th century, quality levels were no longer enforced, and myriad mediocre wines were being sold under generic German terms like spätlese and auslese.
Not that all the residents conducted themselves in suitably monastic ways: The patient population included quantities of what Dr. Sweet calls Bad Boys and Bad Girls, the substance-addled, impossibly behaved denizens of the city's streets whose chronic medical conditions had forced their game indoors.
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.
At Pyongyang's Department Store No. 1, there were stampedes when people tried to buy the limited quantities of detergent, tobacco, and sweets at government prices.
Limit yourself to small quantities of your favorite holiday sweets.
