Its cafe is one of the best places in town for home-baked breads and scones, salads such as warm chicken with smoked bacon and feta, and sumptuous desserts.

Scavenging among the dead after a battle was, for the horrid army, like a sumptuous dessert following a banquet.

The healthy foods are things like sumptuous desserts and hamburgers.

The sumptuous iconic dessert is bread pudding souffle.

One proviso: Group efforts tend to need reinforcement, like a sumptuous dessert.

If you're not in the mood for the formal dining room, slide into one of the dark wooden booths at Dr Kneipp's next door for finger food or a sumptuous dessert, not to mention an amazing wine list.

A typical dinner began with fresh English asparagus and hollandaise, followed by poached scallops, then tournedos of beef in blackcurrant sauce, French tiny beans, new potatoes, and a choice of sumptuous desserts, including apple crisp with clotted cream, sherry-soaked trifle and strawberry-cream cake.

Tiramisu, with dark chocolate wafers on top, in a pool of espresso-spiked creme anglaise, was a lodestar of how sumptuous this cliched dessert can be.

The array of better bistros on "Restaurant Row," the block of 46th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, captures the best of Manhattan after dark: elegant menus, trays of sumptuous desserts, fresh flowers on every table.

"Now, my dear, regale us with your description of the sumptuous desserts available to us on this, our Lord's natal day."