| The best buys include coffee beans, chocolate, mint humbugs and, of course, clotted cream shortbread. |
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| The wheelchair was made of black and red licorice and the wheels were made of humbugs. |
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| Favourite sweets of past times, such as humbugs and bullseyes, are produced this way. |
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| And the sweet-shop that had been a pharmacy, so that jars of humbugs stood next to jars of belladonna. |
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| Decide that twenty dollars for five hours of entertainment is reasonable value and declare that skinflints are humbugs. |
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| As part of her enterprise she shipped nostalgic English confection like humbugs and aniseed balls, to Navy men, tossing on the high seas. |
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| With coffee and humbugs, lunch tends to drift well into tea-time. |
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| Like Dante, Pasolini fulminated against politicians, grafters and humbugs who he believed had ruined postwar Italy. |
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| From most of the preachers and all the humbugs they expect nothing else. |
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| Our mean-minded monarchists really are a bunch of humourless humbugs. |
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| Pulled candy can be made from a plain sugar syrup, as in humbugs. |
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| Her husband and her elder sons were talkers and humbugs and Rebecca did not believe either in Sloppery or street-corner eloquence. |
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| He means that he has sold out to the parliamentary humbugs and the bourgeoisie. Compromise! that is his faith. |
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| Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs. |
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