comestibles

• I put the meat in the pot, with the other comestibles, at nine o'clock in the morning. —  James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.
• Hit in the chest with the heavy assortment of comestibles, plus two bottles of cheap red wine, Harry stumbled backward and landed on the seat. —  F ;SF - vol 103 issue 06 - December 2002
• It's no coincidence that when the conservative Club for Growth PAC produced its famous 2004 television commercial featuring an elderly couple telling Howard Dean to go "back to Vermont," two out of the seven outré practices Dean and his "left-wing freak show" were accused of involved comestibles: latte drinking and sushi eating. —  The Moderate Voice
• Bourbon's menu is steeped in luxe comestibles, but nothing gets the crowd buzzing like duck-fat fries. —  Miami New Times | Complete Issue
• They had gone all the way to our cook's waggon three miles the other side of Ypres for comestibles, and whilst we were d--ing their eyes for bolting, were trudging, heavily laden, along the road back to us--good youths It was a lengthy business getting the relief through. —  The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915

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