Use "peppermints" in a sentence

1. Hit-and-run tragedy To help the Coldstream Guards some friends of the regiment are sending 1,000 each of shirts, socks, tins of Boracic ointment, and packets of peppermints.

2. Beyond sat a pair of humble lovers, Artlessly holding each other by the hand, a somber spinster eating peppermints out of a paper bag, and an old gentleman taking his preparatory nap behind a yellow bandanna