The sharpest pickles vanished, whole cucumbers at once, like sugarplums, and no man winked his eye.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
The children from the three villages upon whom Katrine had showered gifts have all, as well as Freddy, become accustomed to their new possessions, but the giant Christmas-tree, robbed, it is true, of its sugarplums, still stands with its candle-stumps and gilt ornaments in the corridor, and from the brown frames of the engravings in the dining-room a few evergreen boughs are still hanging, remnants of the Christmas decorations.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
The heart of all persons with a mania is like those boxes with compartments, in which sugarplums are kept in sorts: "suum cuique tribuere" is their motto; they measure to each duty its dose.
"The Lesser Bourgeoisie"
Honore de Balzac