The red-brown eyes looked pleadingly into his, and the slender fingers rested on his arm, and together they wandered to a corner of palms where he seated her and brought her cool wine jelly and other Confections.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
Delicious sweets and Confections, cool acid drinks, evidently prepared from fresh fruits, with an abundance of palm and European wines were there; and the fruits alone would have been a sufficient attraction for the guests.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
Now the brightest colored and richest silks, orange, blue, pink, and lilac dresses, trimmed with lace flounces, dinner dresses, in fact-all the charming Confections of Worth or Piugat-are freely displayed on the coach-tops, with the utmost graciousness, for every passer-by to comment on.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood