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"Sugarplums" (a la "Night Before Christmas"), and really, they can be made with any combination of dried fruits, nuts, spices, and other ingredients that suit you (and your kids, of course)!
Kids Cuisine 2009
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One was Sugarplums and Scandals and the other was Over the Moon.
Friday Book Club Nalini Singh 2009
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Visions of Sugarplums: Every child has to see a live performance of the Nutcracker at least once in his or her lifetime.
Sarah Bowman: Holiday Round Up From Kids Off the Couch Sarah Bowman 2010
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Visions of Sugarplums: Every child has to see a live performance of the Nutcracker at least once in his or her lifetime.
Sarah Bowman: Holiday Round Up From Kids Off the Couch Sarah Bowman 2010
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Polly answered all these questions of Major Sugarplums to the very best of her power.
Vanity Fair 2006
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He brought, on one pretext or another, presents to everybody, and almost every day; and went, with the landlords little girl, who was rather a favourite with Amelia, by the name of Major Sugarplums.
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He was at that time a tall, awkward man, kindly, genial, who always reminded me of Thackeray's ` ` Major Sugarplums. ''
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Horror for this Fiendish yet frivolous People, who could mingle the twirling of Fans and the sucking of Sugarplums, with the most excruciating Torments ever inflicted upon a Human Being.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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She laughed one day when Major Sugarplums 'cab drove up to Fulham, and he descended from it, bringing out a wooden horse, a drum, a trumpet, and other warlike toys, for little Georgy, who was scarcely six months old, and for whom the articles in question were entirely premature.
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Polly answered all these questions of Major Sugarplums to the very best of her power.
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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