| 单词 | sweet-scented |
| 例句 | But she’d been wrong before about the appearance of things, trusting Mrs. Coulter because of her beautiful smile and her sweet-scented glamour. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Marsh sedge grew there, pink, sweet-scented valerian and the drooping water avens. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The sides of the glen were shaggy with last year’s bracken, among which the tight-curled fronds of spring were just thrusting through the sweet-scented earth. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They lay curled closely together in a hollow filled with sweet-scented needles, under an aged, spreading balsam tree, near the banks of the the stream. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She washed him with the warm water and the sweet-scented soap and dried him carefully bit by bit with the towel. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It sounded lovely, the name of that Ghanaian town, and she imagined a sleepy cluster of homes on stretches of sweet-scented grasslands. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I heard a fountain gurgling, and smelled juniper and cedar and a bunch of other sweet-scented plants. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal,—that is your success. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They were fresh—soft and sweet-scented, like they’d just come out of the box. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z With its bright colors and whiff of old scandal, it is a place of the mind, stranded perfectly at a gathering point of sweet-scented opposites. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z Williams's contemporary HD turns away from the traditional sweet-scented bloom of the traditional poetic rose to the "acrid fragrance" of the Sea Rose. Poster poems: Roses 2011-04-08T10:04:54Z Now, she honors his memory by planting sweet-scented roses that he cherished. California Considers Extending Last Call to 4 A.M. 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Now, she honors his memory through planting the sweet-scented roses he cherished. Tearing out her lawn was like therapy after a year of illness and grief 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Set in a leafy patio garden with sweet-scented jasmine blossoming at one side, the collection conveyed an intimate feel. Fendi caps fashion week, going East in culture-hopping show 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Jasmine climbs on the awning over the dining table, offering a sweet-scented escape from the heat. Before & After: See the dramatic 'jewel box' garden makeover 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z He followed them in silence, and thought of white flowers in a sweet-scented field, when they drew a knife across his neck and lay him down on the pavement to bleed. Mortar flowers 2013-06-12T17:50:53.917Z It forms a slender shrubby plant of from 8 to 10 ft. high, with opposite lance-shaped smooth leaves, which are entire at the margins, and bears small white four-petalled sweet-scented flowers disposed in panicles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z The camp was pitched in a field of sweet-scented primulas near the village. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z And here is also the sweet-scented lavender, and the roses, and near the high board fence on the north, is the sun dial, that still and silent informant of the passing hours. Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town 2012-04-11T02:00:30.517Z The malignant spirits are propitiated by offerings of burnt paper inscribed with prayers, of bundles of sweet-scented wood, and of other articles of trifling value; the good spirits are mostly neglected. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Their presence, after Count Romanoff's cynicism, was like some sweet-scented balm; like a breeze from the mountains after the fetid atmosphere of a cavern. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z A pomander was made of "the maste of a sweet Apple tree being gathered betwixt two Lady days," mixed with various sweet-scented drugs and gums and Rose leaves, and shaped into a ball or bracelet. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Among the trees in the lower Kama Valley grow many parnassias, a tall green fritillaria, a handsome red swertia and a very sweet-scented pink orchis. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z A. incarnata, 2 to 4 ft., produces deep rose sweet-scented flowers towards the end of summer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z The sweet-scented flowers, of a greenish-yellow colour, appear in February and March, but are inconspicuous, and are borne in drooping clusters at the base of the leaves. Our Flowering Shrubs and how to know them 2012-02-18T03:00:16.030Z We see the venerable priest pouring out the sweet-scented wine, and then we see the young Endymion himself:— "He seemed To common lookers-on like one who dreamed Of idleness in groves Elysian." The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z A tussy-mussy was the most beloved of nosegays, and was often made of flowers mingled with sweet-scented leaves. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z This seclusion can be got by judicious screening of parts, by shrubberies, or avenues of hazel, or yew, or sweet-scented bay, with perhaps clusters of lilies and hollyhocks, or dwarf Alpine plants and trailers between. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z Schizopetalon Walkeri: hardy, 1 ft., white, sweet-scented at night; curiously fringed petals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z At one moment they inserted their trunks into the sweet-scented cup of the jasmine; at the next, and they brushed the pearly dew from the brilliant radii of the passion-flower. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z The sweet-scented pink hyacinth which had been brought me was beautiful indeed. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z The plant stood two or three feet high, and the sweet-scented flowers were in whorls of five or six on a stem. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Pot-pourri, pō-pōō-rē′, n. a ragout of meats, vegetables, &c.: a mixture of sweet-scented materials, chiefly dried flowers: medley of musical airs: a literary production composed of unconnected parts. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z On the right and left of us were high walls of calcareous rock, over the tops of which hung thousands of brilliant, sweet-scented flowers. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z Many a beautiful tree grew around their humble dwelling, and many a sweet-scented flower almost entered the open windows. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z Hundreds of dresinas, other rare plants, and sweet-scented flowers made the air heavy with their fragrance, while the lofty Indian laurels and palms looked down like lords on the dwarf beauties growing at their feet. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) 2012-01-23T03:00:12.223Z Our many flower-charities furnish flowers throughout the summer to our hospitals, but what sweet-scented flowers are there for those debarred from any sight of beauty? Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z According to the Buccaneers' account, these Indian chiefs worshipped each a peculiar spirit, to whom they offered sacrifices of fire, burning incense of sweet-scented gums. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z The rose with its many varieties, the jessamine, the bel, the mallika, the king of smells, the lily of the valley, the Champaka, and a thousand other sorts of sweet-scented flowers were there. Folk-Tales of Bengal 2012-01-05T03:00:45.240Z She wanted to wander over the velvety lawn beneath her windows, to pluck for herself the many-hued, sweet-scented flowers, growing here and there in the grass. Elsie's Widowhood A Sequel to Elsie's Children 2011-12-22T03:00:21.710Z Am I not a queer conglomerate—a sweet-scented mixture indeed! A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life 2011-12-17T03:00:14.127Z Some are sweet-scented; and they have no thorns, and their foliage is ever perfect, so I am sure the Rose is jealous. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Of wild flowers there were but few, but heaths, still green, there were in abundance, and many curious wild shrubs they had never seen before; but they knew the juniper-plant and the sweet-scented wild myrtle. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z Finally he went splashing through a broad though shallow river, and immediately after disappeared in a clump of those sweet-scented birch trees that grow so plentifully in “the land of the mountain and flood.” Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z On the other hand, sweet-scented grasses and boiled food improve the quality, and, generally, increase the quantity of the milk, provided, however, the digestive organs are in a physiological state. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z They are sweet-scented, too,—a delightful fragrance, resembling that of June apples. The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States 2011-11-12T03:00:31.793Z If the nosegay promised to be somewhat large and straggling, at least it would be sweet-scented, and she felt pretty sure that her father would be well content with it. Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z The birds had gone about their morning tasks, and only a single bright song now and then from some soloist in the big tree overhead marked the sweet-scented silence of the morning. The Enchanted Barn 2011-10-13T02:00:50.933Z And my bath was big and white, a tiled, immaculate room, with cross-stitched towels and washrags, sweet-scented soaps and a dazzling array of bottles and toothbrush-mugs. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z Sugar is an essential element in the formation of good milk; hence the sweet-scented grasses are the most profitable to cultivate and feed to milch cows. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z But what say you to a bunch of sweet-scented carnations, pinks, and lilac pea-blooms trailing over the toil-tinted fingers of some rustic dame of forty? The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z I despaired of flowers worthy of the name, until close by my foot I saw a tiny plant with a comely, sweet-scented blossom, grateful to the eye and beautiful as our northern blooms are beautiful. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z Among shrubs and bushes, the many kinds of sweet-scented ceanothus or deer brush, manzanita, chokecherry, chinquapin, and dogwood are most noticed. Sequoia [California] National Park 2011-09-21T02:00:31.497Z She gave a startled little cry, leant over the balustrade, and the sheaf of flowers dropped from her arms, falling in a long cascade of leaves and blossoms, rose-coloured and sweet-scented, at his feet. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z The April wind, soft, provocative, sweet-scented, blew in her face as she looked back; and down the long road, between the rose and green of the woods, an unbroken chain of memories stretched toward her. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z The spotted orchis is a sweet-scented Highland moorland gem, but right glad I was to find it meeting me on the banks of Northumberland. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Candidum, the well-known "Madonna Lily," 3 to 5 feet high, with sweet-scented pure-white flowers, 3 to 4 inches across, and ten to thirty on an erect truss in June. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z The King of Satyn afterward ordered for the champion a warm bath of certain sweet-scented herbs that healed his wounds and in which he rested pleasantly till break of day. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z And it is sad to think of the buried snowdrops, of the crocuses, yellow and blue, and the sweet-scented primroses. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z It was as if the name Angelica were not a sound, but a thing composed of colour and fragrance—sky-blue like a cloud and as sweet-scented as lilies. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z “O’erhung with wild woods thickening green,” and “braes” clad in brackens, among which wild flowers were growing—the sweet-scented hyacinth, the white or pink crane’s-bill, the little pimpernel, and the azure speedwell. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Washingtonianum grows 3 to 6 feet high, and has sweet-scented, drooping, funnel-shaped flowers of a pure white tinged with lilac or purple. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z Several are grown in stoves or greenhouses for their handsome, sweet-scented white flowers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z They are yellow and sweet-scented and visited by bees. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z The next morning Ranulph came again with the Proven�al maid of honor to get more flowers, and “strowing herbs,”—sweet-scented plants that gave out their fragrance when trodden upon. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z Aristophanes says— Oh you who press your mistress to your arms, All night upon sweet-scented couches lying. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z Japonicum, 1 to 3 feet high, with sweet-scented pure white flowers faintly tinged with purple outside. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z “Your bonnie English bud is breaking into a fair and sweet-scented rose, Martin Lee,” said Mr Meadows at last. Midnight Webs 2011-07-29T02:00:30.077Z The dew lay heavy and cold upon the tawny, sweet-scented wallflowers, and the freshness of feeling in the shade whispered that the silvery whiteness of their hues was not far removed from frost. One Maid's Mischief 2011-07-15T02:00:22.283Z I retired to my library, the windows of which were overhung by sweet-scented lilacs and climbing roses, beyond which lay an orchard of varied fruits surrounding the old farmhouse. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z It hung from the bough of a shrub upon which bright, sweet-scented buds were struggling through between cruel-looking, black thorns, and miraculously getting the best of the struggle. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z Two species, however—both with clusters of white sweet-scented flowers on stout stalks 1 to 2 feet high—can be grown in the open air in the milder parts of the British Islands. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z The soughing gloom through which Baird rode was mournful on a March day, but he had some conception of what it must be like in summer, cool and sweet-scented and perpetually whispering. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z So, while Julius heated the inner side of the waxen mask over a little lamp, Mr. Aeneas stood over Lord George gently smearing his features with some sweet-scented pomade. The Happy Hypocrite A Fairy Tale For Tired Men 2011-06-24T02:00:21.977Z Then comes Magnolia stellata, now a perfectly-shaped bush five feet through, a sheet of sweet-scented bloom in April. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z I shall be a bride to you such as there never has been since the days of the Blessed Companions—may their names be perfumed and sweet-scented!... The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z Other species are colchiciflora, the bulbs of which are only about an inch in diameter, and the pale-yellow sweet-scented flowers appear in autumn. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z It was the hay-loft he had come upon, a wide space half filled with hay; the remainder of the floor swept clean, a sweet-scented, airy space warmed by a broad band of sunlight. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z In that pleasant room at the parsonage, with its sweet-scented mignonette boxes, and vases of freshly-cut flowers, sat the Reverend Mr. Freeman at breakfast, with his wife and visitor. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z The opening of the great gates sent a wave of sweet-scented air into the overheated château. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z The moon was out and all the stars, the air was heavy and sweet-scented. Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z Speak subtly with your warm, sweet-scented breath Till, 'mid the dance and music of the hour, She turn you love-filled eyes and glowing face, With: "Ah, ye grew in that old trysting place!" The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z Garvin Westmore lay full length on the sweet-scented bed, motionless, except when he lifted to his elbow to look out at the country below. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z Both lads were so dead tired that they needed no second invitation to fling themselves down on their sweet-scented couch, and were asleep almost instantly. Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast 2011-03-24T02:00:12.337Z Having then passed through the orangery, which is filled with sweet-scented blossoms or rich in ripening fruit, we leave the house and enter the gardens. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z He was sweet-scented, white and purple from head to heel. Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z Light above, light around and everywhere about; while the sweet-scented breezes come joy-laden with the happy wild birds' melodious songs; wearied with wonderment, under the flower-crowned lilacs they gather themselves to rest. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z On the left side of the girdle they hang rings and bundles of sweet-scented herbs mixed with glass beads and hawk’s-bells. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 2011-02-26T03:00:46.860Z You shall sleep soundly I promise, for I have filled that palliasse with the sweet-scented grass which grows in yonder valley. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z Meanwhile, the young man and the young maid went happily along under the white-tasselled locusts, between the sweet-scented green fields and the blooming gardens, toward the silver poplars. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z In the waters at its northern end, wild rice grew plentifully, and the beautiful sweet-scented white water-lily or lotus. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z A tree stood near, whose top was surmounted by a parasite,—a species of bignonia,—in full blossom, that with its array of sweet-scented flowers completely covered the tree, almost concealing the green foliage underneath. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z He kills the serpent with the aid of the “olanos,” and the princess helps by striking the serpent’s tail with a sword,10 instead of sprinkling the “sweet-scented water.” Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z "As far as luxuries go, the Turks are certainly our masters; not only in confectionery, in sweet-scented sherbet, but even in cooking we are rude barbarians compared to them." The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z Those who were unmarried had their hair simply braided and embellished with knots of ribbon, strings of pearls, or Nature's most beautiful adornment for the maiden—sweet-scented flowers. The Evolution of Fashion 2011-01-06T03:00:44.710Z Then like a huge, black, sweet-scented sponge the darkening night seemed to swoop down and wipe him right off the face of the earth. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z The green, sweet-scented wax was rapidly melted, rising to the surface of the juice yielded by the berries. The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z How different from Grannie's garden, with its masses of sweet-scented, old-fashioned blossoms; its pure air and clear sunlight! Betty's Battles an Everyday Story 2011-01-02T03:00:19.670Z They passed into a garden, moist and sweet-scented with the distillate odours of a dewy evening. Max Carrados 2010-12-24T03:00:32.117Z The "willow-flower-water" is prepared from the sweet-scented flowers of the Oriental willow, called "bán" and "khiláf" or "khaláf;" a twig of which is, among the Arabs, a favourite emblem of a graceful female. The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments When he returned to the resting-place he had ever something for Mary--berries, or a sweet-scented flower, or the soft nest of a bird which the wind had dislodged from its tree. Four Phases of Love It is filled with ornamental trees, flowers, and fruit-trees from every part of the world, the sweet-scented shrubs rendering the dewy morning atmosphere fragrant even in mid-winter. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands It was open, and sweet-scented flowers threw their perfume upon the air. Glories of Spain Then when he returned to the resting party, he had always something to bring Marlene--some berries, a sweet-scented flower, or some soft bird's-nest blown from the trees by the wind. L'Arrabiata and Other Tales One year where geraniums might have been I had blue-violet verbenas, sweet-scented and just as easy to grow. The New Gulliver and Other Stories The bright, sweet-scented flowers that star the road To death’s dim dwelling, others heed them not, With sad eyes fixed upon that drear abode, Weeping, and wailing their unhappy lot. Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work Ulrich Brunner, always given an excellent character in the catalogues, and indeed it is a good rose, cherry-red in colour, sweet-scented, and of fine form: it rarely ails, mildew and rust passing it by altogether. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them At last the boy, after peering all over the flower-cart, caught sight of a little nest of violets—sweet-scented violets—in one corner, which had been almost hidden by the larger and more brilliant plants. Five Minutes' Stories Writing letters was freely indulged in by all, and the mails were loaded with sweet-scented, delicately addressed notes, and Oh, such longings for home. Personal Recollections of the Civil War By One Who Took Part in It as a Private Soldier in the 21st Volunteer Regiment of Infantry from Massachusetts In this way you will get all that is simple and sweet-scented and easy of cultivation, and nothing which is formal and perky. The New Gulliver and Other Stories The flowers of Lonicera, which have a long tube, open in the evening, when they are sweet-scented and are visited by hawk-moths. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" At the base of the summer-house there should be quantities of sweet-scented plants, as this will make the time spent there all the pleasanter. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them But when I opened it, thinking to find a written missive, there appeared only a great, sweet-scented magnolia bloom. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois In summer, he found them nearly always in the garden, or in the outer room, near the open door, from whence there was a pleasant view over the sweet-scented flower-beds. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. I was up the bank lying full length on the sweet-scented grass, and gasping in company with my first salmon caught, played and landed on an eight-ounce rod. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel It is, however, of an evergreen character; the ivory white are very sweet-scented blossoms. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens Mezereon and other fragrant shrubs put out sweet-scented flowers, and the great white arum lilies were throwing up their sheaths. The Head Girl at the Gables The salary of sixteen thousand pounds of tobacco was, in ordinary quality, equivalent to £80; in sweet-scented, to £160. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia There in the dry, warm, sweet-scented dark there was a brief tragedy, with shrill squeaks and a rustling struggle. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life We now entered the town of Iztapalapan, where we were indeed quartered in palaces, of large dimensions, surrounded by spacious courts, and built of hewn stone, cedar and other sweet-scented wood. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. The sweet-scented flowers are nearly 6 inches across. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens It was really a deep, sweet-scented hollow scooped out of an immense arbor vit� tree, camouflaged to look like its sister trees in a group beside the path. The Brightener The disaffected in the petitioning counties, Gloucester, New Kent, and Middlesex, in May proceeded riotously to cut up the tobacco-plants in the beds, especially the sweet-scented, which was produced nowhere else. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia Extracts and essences from sweet-scented plants were much sought after. Oriental Women The Indians were likewise ordered to bring a quantity of their splendid and sweet-scented roses with small branches of trees. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. She folded it up in white violet leaves, like a sweet-scented napkin, and with a horn of honey from the columbines set out again with many thanks and full of hope and courage. Lulu's Library, Volume II With care she heaped up the sweet-scented bread with both her hands. A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) After further parley, and further opening of gates, he enters a large courtyard, and goes thence into the garden, which is planted with every kind of tree, aromatic herb, and sweet-scented flower. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens His ride, in the exquisite morning, amid sweet-scented trees and shrubs, whence the happy songs of the newly-awakened birds greeted him, drove from his memory for a time the terrible images of the night. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II Who would coax rainbows out of alkali water and sweet-scented flowers out of hot sand. The Blue Goose I was to have neither arbor nor trellis,—no sweet-scented honeysuckle clustering over an elaborate framework,—no parterre of beautiful flowers, glorious to behold, but producing no profit,—not even marigold or lady's-slipper. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 Forcing-pit.—Introduce such plants as are generally used for forcing, especially the sweet-scented sorts, Lily of the Valley, Sweet Briar, Lilacs, some of the Tea, Bourbon, or Hybrid Perpetual Roses, and bulbous plants. In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year Showing the Most Successful Treatment for all Plants Cultivated in the Greenhouse, Conservatory, Stove, Pit, Orchid, and Forcing-house It also served as a seat; for at intervals, between the flowers and sweet-scented herbs, portions were covered with turf. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens He was arrayed in a splendid dress, regaled with incense and with a profusion of sweet-scented flowers.... The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West There the two lovers stood arm-in-arm on the topmost gallery of the tower, and gazed out into the sweet-scented wooded landscape, beyond which the blue hills rose up like a giant's city. Weird Tales. Vol. I Then, as I have elsewhere stated, there are individual hepaticas, or individual families among them, that are sweet-scented. A Year in the Fields Adorned like a leaf-woven arbor Stood its old-fashioned gate; and within upon each cross of iron Hung was a sweet-scented garland, new twined by the hands of affection. The Song of Hiawatha An Epic Poem The sweet-scented grass was warm with the afternoon sun, and musical with the chirp and hum of its insect homes. Happy Days for Boys and Girls The sharpshooters on both sides paused as the coach drove into the little sweet-scented wood that was called the Alameda, and the Missourians, with sabres at salute, transferred their 410charge to the Imperialists crowding around. The Missourian You will be surprised if you once begin to count them up, how many dull-looking flowers are sweet-scented, while some gaudy flowers have little or no scent. Eighth Reader He might see ten thousand marsh marigolds, or ten times ten thousand houstonias, but they would not toss in the breeze, and they would not be sweet-scented like the daffodils. A Year in the Fields The lavender bags which she did not use herself Mrs. Maitland gave to her friends; there was no one she had been fond of who did not possess several of the little sweet-scented presents. Two Maiden Aunts After exhausting his sweet-scented receiver of this floral elocution, he pauses four seconds; pointing to vacuum, over the heads of his audience, he asks, in an anxious tone, "Do you see that?" The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes Berthe half screamed, in dismay clutching at ruffles and laces to hide them, when into the sweet-scented confusion strode Mr. Daniel Boone. The Missourian And so these plants do not need to give out honey, or to have gaudy or sweet-scented flowers to attract insects. Eighth Reader It has two oblong shining leaves, with a scape four or five inches high strung with sweet-scented, pink-purple flowers. A Year in the Fields Then her mind seemed to float away again, but not this time through a raging furnace, but through sweet-scented gardens, and sunlight, and soft pure air. The Making of Mona Its fiber is as white as a lily, and nearly as sweet-scented. Under the Maples Somehow the very thought of that sweet-scented hay appealed to Tubby very nearly as much as a good feed might; and that was saying a great deal. The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields Lambert was not certain that he was serious in his attitude toward Jedlick as he went away with his sweet-scented box under his arm. The Duke Of Chimney Butte A pupil disputed with his teacher about the hepatica, claiming in opposition that it was sweet-scented. A Year in the Fields The large, solitary, sweet-scented, axillary flowers on peduncles half as long as the leaves. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination As he sat beneath a great cedar filling his pipe, it seemed to him only appropriate that he should approach Bonavista through that belt of cool, sweet-scented Bush. The Greater Power With none of its master’s scruples it clattered into the barn, and, walking straight into its old familiar stall, commenced to search in the corners of the manger for the sweet-scented hay usually awaiting it. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills Here in the south is Andalusia, where mountain ranges may have snow on their peaks all year round, but down in the valleys and plains sweet-scented tropical flowers bloom in bright colors every single month. Getting to know Spain The white ones that season were largely in the ascendant; and probably the white specimens of both varieties, one season with another, will oftenest prove sweet-scented. A Year in the Fields Racemes drooping, of sweet-scented flowers, with the bracts longer than the flowers. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Vividly I remember the white-skinned sycamores, the gracefully drooping elms, and the sweet-scented honey-locust that grew about the cabin and embowered it in leafy glory. A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties The grass rose high up to the horse’s knees as he rode, and the quiet, hard-working animal, his own property, reveled in the sweet-scented fodder which he could nip at as he moved leisurely along. The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana It is especially fond of the sweet-scented phlox. Harper's Young People, October 12, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Darwin says a considerably larger proportion of white flowers are sweet-scented than of any other color. A Year in the Fields Branches obtusely 4-sided, hairy; flowers pale lilac, in interrupted panicles, agreeably sweet-scented in late summer. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination I would like to exchange slips of wax-plant, sweet-scented geranium, and fuchsias with any readers for more ocean curiosities, only I wish some one would please tell me how to send them safely. Harper's Young People, September 21, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly She looked like a huge blue gentian kissed by the sun, for her top petticoat was of blue cotton, and her golden head seemed like the sweet-scented stamen. A Bride of the Plains This will be found a quick and easy way of making a sweet-scented pot. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families My readers probably remember that on a former occasion I have mildly taken the poet Bryant to task for leading his readers to infer that the early yellow violet was sweet-scented. A Year in the Fields Leaves large, 4 to 8 in., very rough above, ovate-oblong, taper-pointed, doubly serrate, soft-downy beneath; branchlets downy; inner bark very mucilaginous; leaves sweet-scented in drying; buds in spring soft and downy with rusty hairs. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination As the sun gets strong we hear the drone of a swarm of great creatures like prodigious wasps with legs like stilts, which fly around the sweet-scented blooms. Round the Wonderful World Klara now put her hands on her hips, and, like a young animal let free after days of captivity, she drew in deep breaths of sweet-scented air. A Bride of the Plains The sweet-scented was grown on the lighter sandy soils and although the yield was less it brought a better price on the market. Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699 Some hepaticas are sweet-scented and some are not, and the perfume is stronger some seasons than others. A Year in the Fields Then he crossed a sweet-scented pasture, with the dim, shadowy outlines of the cows lying here and there, the stillness broken now and then by the soft tinkle of a disturbed bell. Duncan Polite The Watchman of Glenoro A balmy, sweet-scented wind, downy as the breeze of a dream, blew gently along the grass and tingled against Northwood's skin refreshingly. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 Mr. Linden finished setting two or three ruby carnations in the green and purple of heliotrope and sweet-scented verbena; then laid the bunch lightly upon her lips and gravely inquired if they were sweet. Say and Seal, Volume II It proved such in reality for Katharine, who, burrowing herself a fresh, chair-like "nest" in the sweet-scented hay, laid her head back and fixed her gaze upon the clouds floating above the slatted window. The Brass Bound Box Rose leaves, mignonette, and sweet-scented clover, make fine perfumes, managed in this way. The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner A warm May day was ending in a bright, sweet-scented evening. An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story The bay was, in some places, almost covered with the leaves of a beautiful water-lily, the large, sweet-scented yellow flowers of which grew two or three feet above the surface of the water. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe The fields are not entirely given over to the cultivation of lavender, for peppermint, sweet balm, rosemary, elder, and the sweet-scented violets are also grown here. Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch I have sacrificed to thee 30,000 oxen, with all kinds of sweet-scented herbs. Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings Almost all large flowers are brightly coloured, many produce honey, and many are sweet-scented. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In The broad graveled paths are bordered by sweet-scented geraniums, the scarlet and pink growing wild; verbenas, coronella, and roses of many species, mingle artistically with the statues and fountains interspersed about the grounds. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months A good load of sweet-scented hay piled on a wide hay-cart, two big oxen yoked to that, standing in the middle of the barn-floor, with their two great heads held down very low. The Nursery, July 1877, XXII. No. 1 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers As Philip held the curtains for her to precede him to the dining-room he looked longingly at the sweet-scented blossoms in the window. A Man of Two Countries THE new Social Order, referred to already in its dim beginnings, rose around us like a sweet-scented flower. The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals Accordingly it opens towards evening, and as is generally the case with such flowers, is pale in colour, and sweet-scented. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In The ointment was sweet-scented, and was contained in an alabaster, or in an elegant glass or porcelain vase, some of which have been found in the tombs of Thebes. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Awaking refreshed, she turned to the tree, saying, "My beautiful child, how can I reward thee for the cool shelter of thy sweet-scented branches?" The Enchanted Castle A Book of Fairy Tales from Flowerland In a part of Arabia where groves of palms and sweet-scented flowers give the traveller rest after toilsome journeys under burning skies, there reigned a young king whose name was Lino. The Olive Fairy Book Finland's wild flowers are renowned, and the hay is full of sweet-scented blossoms. Through Finland in Carts The meadow is sprinkled with beautiful flowers, The hedge with its sweet-scented blossoms of snow. Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young The plants are trees bearing strong spines, with alternate, compound leaves each with three leaflets and panicles of sweet-scented white flowers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" It was a neatly furnished cottage room In which she lay, and nodding eglantine, With its sweet-scented foliage and rath roses, Rustled and shimmered at the open window. The Woman Who Dared She had a fine, rich, powerful voice, and to hear her sing was like eating a ripe, sweet-scented melon. The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories It grows in large bushes in the open in Cornwall and is very sweet-scented. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Sweet-scented and Oronoco were usually exported separately, and usually only the sweet-scented was stemmed. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" The pavements were strewn with flowers and sweet-scented herbs, over which the wheels of the carriages and the hoofs of the horses would pass without noise. Louis XIV. Makers of History Series Ah, to my untried, youthful eyes those fresh great hay-fields, whitening with ox-eyed daisies, reddening with sweet-scented clover and streaked golden with vivid yellow butter-cups, over which the song-convulsed bobolinks hovered on arcuate wings! When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine The Cape geranium, the common fuchsia, the sweet-scented verbena, and various kinds of myrtles and veronicas, are grown as hedges to protect the crops. The Cornwall Coast But this flower has no perfume, and a honeysuckle without perfume is a base pretender, to be cast out of the family of the real sweet-scented honeysuckle. Aunt Jane of Kentucky If the two varieties were mixed in a hogshead, it was purchased at the prevailing Oronoco prices, which were less than those paid for sweet-scented. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" He slept in a bower in a rose garden, and nowhere in the world are the roses so magnificent and so sweet-scented as in Persia. Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends He arose from his seat, and followed the strains down between the sweet-scented myrtles to the entrance-gate. Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus Among these were interspersed patches of rose trees, wild currants, and gooseberries, with prickly pears, and the most beautiful and sweet-scented wild flowers. History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians “There used to be a bubby bush—a sweet-scented shrub—over in that corner,” Creed hesitated. Judith of the Cumberlands We are also told that sweet-scented grew mostly in the lower parts of Virginia, along the York and James rivers, and later on the Rappahannock and on the southside of the Potomac. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" They were very sweet-scented and heavy; she let them fall on the dressing-table, but after Tommy had vanished, whistling shrilly along the passage, she bent forward and buried her cheeks and lips in their fragrance. To Love Following its sinuous banks, disturbing the wild-fowl as he went, and treading on a carpeting of sweet-scented night-flowers, he soon reached the bend of the river which laved the grove. Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus She entered the churchyard, and went to the little grave; it looked like one great bouquet of sweet-scented flowers. The Sand-Hills of Jutland “What gorgeous and sweet-scented flowers,” exclaimed Filippa, pointing to a great tree. Fil and Filippa Story of Child Life in the Philippines The origin and development of sweet-scented tobacco remains somewhat of a mystery, and we can only make conjectures as to what happened. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" Flowers large, white, sweet-scented, axillary, in racemes of 7–9. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines There were four wooden chairs in the box of the wagon, and the floor was strewn with sweet-scented timothy and clover. The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories But I said nothing as that red-faced and sweet-scented doctor looked the child over. The Prairie Mother The ground is then covered with a variety of sweet-scented flowers. World's War Events, Vol. I Some authorities hold that the present day Maryland tobacco is descended from the sweet-scented of the Colonial days, while others believe it to be a descendant of Oronoco. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" And anon, when Mme. la Duchesse engaged Dr. Scott in a close and heated argument, Bobby felt sweet-scented lips pressed against his own. The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days But one May morning, when the lilacs in our playground were full of sweet-scented, purple plumes, a bolt fell from the blue. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls And as they threaded their tortuous way through odorous jungle and sickeningly sweet-scented thicket, at the nimble heels of the silent guide, Natalie surprised glances of awed admiration on the faces of her stout escorts. Gold Out of Celebes “That sweet-scented blossom that called himself the boy’s dad, filled his skin with 102 red-eye farther up the line and settled the fuss he had with his dame.” The Mascot of Sweet Briar Gulch The name Oronoco probably came after the name sweet-scented had already been established. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" She ran about, picking the sweet-scented flowers and chasing the many-coloured butterflies. Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen Each unrolled his blankets on the deep, sweet-scented grass near-by the fire. The Young Alaskans Its flowers, which are borne in great profusion, are a creamy white, and very sweet-scented. Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover They put off in a great hurry, not even waiting to thank their owner for the spread on his table, and the sweet-scented "yarbs" and good things with which he had rubbed their hive. Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained It also appears that sweet-scented disappeared as soon as the soils along the James, York, Rappahannock, and Potomac rivers were exhausted. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" “Listen,” cried she to Marouckla; “you must go up the mountain and find me some violets, I want some to put in my gown; they must be fresh and sweet-scented—do you hear?” Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen Will a humble offering of roses be unworthy of notice, fair Goddess of Liberty?” and a shower of sweet-scented blossoms fell over Dorris’ head and shoulders. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 Omar Khayyam is a philosopher-poet, because his immediate delight in "youth's sweet-scented manuscript" is part of a consciousness that vaguely sees, though it cannot grasp, "this sorry scheme of things entire." The Approach to Philosophy I raised the cover and found my twelve sweet-scented, pretty cakes of soap had almost entirely withered away, and the odor was more like a glue factory than a crack toilet soap. Twenty Years of Hus'ling Jerome E. Brooks wrote that Rolfe's importation of tobacco seed resulted in the famous Virginia sweet-scented leaf. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" The old-fashioned garden below sent up from its bushes of lavender and rosemary, and sweet-scented thyme and wallflower, a dewy fragrance. Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century Well, you are pretty—very pretty; but I care not for you as for your plainer stepsister, the 'sweet-scented Verbena.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Then the wealth of roses and sweet-scented, old-fashioned flowers of all sorts, mixed here and there with their more modern sisters, made it a perfect dream of delight. The Story of a Robin Joan was a slight, blossom-like girl in white, looking much like the pale, sweet-scented house rose she wore in her dark hair. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 It appears that as the sandy loam necessary for the growing of sweet-scented tobacco became exhausted and the planters expanded into the heavy fertile soils, the tobacco became the strong, coarse Oronoco. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" But this is another plant—a tree that bears a sweet-scented fruit not unlike the lemon. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide The place was clean and soft and sweet-scented. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights The long narrow hall looked strangely mournful now that the noisy guests had departed, and the sweet-scented oil in the lamps had begun to burn low. "Unto Caesar" The iron roof of the cottage came into view and the row of tall pines that stood like grim sentinels between the two-rail fence and the sweet-scented garden. An Australian Lassie As virgin soil became scarce, Oronoco was no longer confined to the richest soils, nor was it thought to be less sweet-scented than its rivals. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" He finish’d all his work on the fourth day, And on the fifth, Calypso, nymph divine, Dismiss’d him from her isle, but laved him first, And cloath’d him in sweet-scented garments new. The Odyssey of Homer She explained to us, therefore, the nature and properties of this sweet-scented tree. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness The sun had brushed the veil of rain from the horizon; the leaves, fresh and tender, stirred and sparkled with dew in the morning breeze, and all the air was sweet-scented. Lorraine A romance Inside the gate was a garden, and all its beds were defined by upended stout bottles—weedless, sweet-scented beds wherein grew such blooms as daisies, and violets, stocks, sweetpeas, sweet williams, lad's love and mignonette. An Australian Lassie Thus it seems quite possible that both Oronoco and sweet-scented were originally one variety which became two, primarily because of the different soil composition. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" They made little rolls of sweet-scented powders and gums and oils, "as large as pease," that they placed between rose-leaves and burned on coals in skillets or in little perfume-holders to scent the room. Customs and Fashions in Old New England Here is the sweet-scented vernal grass; taste and see how pleasant it is; it is the grass which, perhaps more than any other, gives that charming odour to the hayfields. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children I was up on the bank lying full length on the sweet-scented grass, gasping in company with my first salmon caught, played, and landed on an eight-ounce rod. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 The postmaster, who had forgotten Bowers’s instructions, grinned knowingly as he passed out photographs and sweet-scented, pink-tinted envelopes addressed to the sheepherder in feminine writing. The Fighting Shepherdess A gentle breeze, warm, sweet-scented, caressed me as I drank in the beauty of the scene. The Dude Wrangler He gives us a graphic picture of this place, with its sweet-scented trees, its shrubs gay as the rainbow with blossoms and berries, its many-coloured vegetation, its fragrant air and delicious soil. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole We had traveled in search of verdant meadows, brawling streams and sweet-scented woods. Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 It was lighted by a small, deep, oriel window, with a broad sill, on which were arranged some flower-pots, sweet-scented flowers growing in them. Clara Maynard The True and the False - A Tale of the Times The meadow foxtail and sweet-scented vernal would be left out entirely, and some six or eight pounds added to the Timothy and red clover. Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure Phlox and ten-weeks stock were there, as everywhere, the last sweet-scented flowers of autumn. Home Life in Colonial Days How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow; There oft as mild ev'ning weeps over the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me. English Songs and Ballads Little rosebuds, fresh though late, and dainty bells, with sweet-scented geraniums and drooping heaths,—a pure and innocent bouquet. Molly Bawn Instead of the sweet-scented cypress and bay trees which the sailors had admired along the Carolina coast, there were dark forests of stately pines, which were grand but gloomy. Discoverers and Explorers Have you ever noticed the sweet-scented wall flowers growing on an old stone wall? The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles In his other hand he gingerly held a quaint little Indian basket, gaily stained, and inwoven with sweet-scented grass. Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Flowers of many kinds were scattered around, and sweet-scented plants perfumed the air. The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story Sarah, being afraid to commit herself in some way if she opened her lips, said nothing, but gazed intently at the ground as they walked slowly among the sweet-scented shrubs. The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers Fruit trees and shrubbery, pungent box bordering trim gravel paths, and a wealth of sweet-scented roses and geraniums were here to be found. The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees We were going fast now, so fast that the tears came to my eyes as the sweet-scented breeze rushed against my lashes. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon The sweet-scented flowers of spring were bursting out from many a bush, and encumbering the ground around me. Dick Onslow Among the Redskins I will have the steeds ready, and at early dawn we will ride forth, and leave a sweet-scented billet to thank the lady for her courtesy, and to inform her of our departure.” The Seven Champions of Christendom In the centre of the cabin was a table on which now stood a large vase, filled with sweet-scented flowers, which spoke of the shore and civilisation. The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea They delight in possessing a quantity of jewellery; but they appear to be still fonder of perfumes and sweet-scented flowers, and spare no expense in procuring them. Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas They sat in a balcony overlooking an orange-grove, the soft air they breathed made fragrant by the sweet-scented flowers. The Last Look A Tale of the Spanish Inquisition Our road lay through a lightly timbered country, and here and there patches of scrub consisting of a sweet-scented wattle. Adventures in Australia “It will take years to grow up, and this past year it has been delightful, with its sweet-scented blossom and beautiful black berries.” Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel At last they emerged from this wilder tract, and descending a gentle slope covered with many a sweet-scented shrub, on which the bees delight to rest, they looked down into the centre of the island. The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea “Hear, hear!” cried Rodd, very softly, for he was speaking into his sweet-scented towel, whose scent was that of fresh air and wild thyme. The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise For the Malays are a flower-loving people, and there is nothing the dark beauties of this race like better than decking their jetty-black hair with white and yellow sweet-scented blossoms. Middy and Ensign The sun was scorchingly hot, but our whole way was between the great sweet-scented pines, whose needle-like leaves glistened like silver as they reflected back the sun’s beams, and shaded our way. Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah As he spoke he nodded and took his great pruning-knife from his coat pocket, opened it with his teeth, and cut the strip of sweet-scented Russia mat. Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden Clusters of fruit and flowers hung from the drooping branches, and the aroma of a thousand sweet-scented shrubs was wafted upon the night air. The Rifle Rangers This roof was flat, and was beautifully laid out as a flower garden, with winding walks through a level lawn thickly studded with beds of beautiful, sweet-scented flowers. The Adventures of Dick Maitland A Tale of Unknown Africa A scent of pine, reminiscent of the sweet-scented Michigan forests, made him sniff eagerly. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life On the breath of a sweet-scented breeze they were wafted far to southward—to the summer land. Stories of Birds In the garden, which was full of old-fashioned shrubs and herbs, she watched the bees busy at the sweet-scented 'honey-plant,' and sometimes peered under the sage-bush to look at the 'effets' that hid there. Round About a Great Estate Here grow the jalap and the guaiacum, the sweet-scented sassafras and the sanitary copaiba. The Rifle Rangers Eight of the most beautiful among them carried the coffin, which was covered with sweet-scented flowers. Legends of the Rhine Miss Blake was very fond of flowers, and on the hills around the mission, watsonias, purple orchids, and other flowers grew; whilst on the edges of the kloofs, sweet-scented clematis trailed. Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories The women had their tokens wrapped in snowy handkerchiefs, and in their Bibles they had sprigs of apple-ringy and mint, and other sweet-scented plants. Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers It grows wild in the southern states, and is cultivated for its sweet-scented, dull, reddish flowers. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses The wildwoods of Hawaii furnished in great abundance and variety small poles for the framework of the kuahu, the altar, the holy place of the halau, and sweet-scented leaves and flowers suitable for its decoration. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula I think its billowy landscapes were festooned with tangling creepers, bright with perennial bloom, and curtained with sweet-scented groves, where the orange and the pomegranate hung like golden globes and ruddy moons. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales There were glorious tanks of water-lilies, and there were pergolas of sweet-scented creepers, and the statues and arbors utterly eclipsed even those of a public park. The Jolliest School of All She remembered the lovely village where she was born; she fancied herself a girl again, running about the sweet-scented lanes and the green fields. Willie the Waif Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow; There oft as mild evening sweeps over the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform The house her papa had taken for them was a pretty rambling old place, standing on a height just above the sea, and surrounded by spreading trees and large gardens full of sweet-scented flowers. Naughty Miss Bunny A Story for Little Children The bright summer-time had come again, when the sweet-scented blossoms beautified the gardens, and the forming fruits gave promise of a rich golden harvest. The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning It was a delectable day, sweet-scented with the mingled perfume of roses and jasmine and chinaberry trees wafted from the open-air conservatories surrounding the plantation mansions on either bank. The Price Softly the breezes dance o'er the meadows, Wafting the perfume of sweet-scented May; Flecked are the green fields with sunshine and shadows, Telling so gently of earth's perfect day. Our Profession and Other Poems He forbade all sacrifices, even of animals, and permitted only flowers and sweet-scented perfumes to be offered up on the altars. By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico This is the parent flower of our graceful, sweet-scented scape of pendent, milk-white little floral bells, enshrined within two broad leafy blades of dark green, and finding general favour for the jardinière, or the button-hole. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure Let them be fruitful trees in the celestial bowers, sweet-scented blooms in the divine gardens; let them be verses of perfection on the page of the universe, words of oneness in the Book of Life. Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Render thanks to the Lord that among that race thou art the first believer,1 that thou hast engaged in spreading sweet-scented breezes, and hast arisen to guide others. A Compilaton on Women Being a vigorous grower and free bloomer, and the flowers very durable withal, it should be largely grown for the sake of its sweet-scented blossoms for cutting purposes. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. Fountains of bright water threw their jets high above the sweet-scented groves and shrubberies. By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico The Rosemary is a well-known, sweet-scented shrub, cultivated in our gardens, and herb beds on account of its fragrancy and its aromatic virtues. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure Say, this indeed is the Frequented Fane, the sweet-scented Leaf, the Tree of divine Revelation, the surging Ocean, the Utterance which lay concealed, the Light above every light... Selections From the Writings of the Báb The sweet-scented fragrance of every breath breathed in the love of God is wafted in the court of the presence of the Lord of Revelation. A Compilaton on Women His sword hung unused on the cottage wall, his steed fed undisturbed among the sweet-scented meadows. Undine Each of the four stanzas began with two lines that asked: "Oh, don't you remember the old river road, that ran through the sweet-scented wood?" A Certain Rich Man Toward the north it led through a sweet-scented wood, where the grass tufts grew in verdant strips along the little-traveled road. Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It Without being exactly pretty, she gave a general impression of jolly, healthy girlhood, and reminded one of an old-fashioned, sweet-scented cabbage rose that had just burst into bloom. A Popular Schoolgirl There, oft as mild evening weeps over the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham They visit the orchard when the apple and pear, the peach, plum, and cherry are in bloom, seeming to revel carelessly amid the sweet-scented and delicately-tinted blossoms, but never faltering in their good work. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Through the sweet-scented dusky silence some small and very wakeful bird was trilling. The Danger Mark Tell me," she said, turning now to gather the sweet-scented wild thyme, "did you ever really do anything foolish in your life? The Good Comrade The sweet-scented smoke of the distant forest fires had diffused itself all day in the atmosphere more and more palpably. The Zeit-Geist Tho’ rich is the breeze in their gay sunny valleys, And cauld Caledonia’s blast on the wave; Their sweet-scented woodlands that skirt the proud palace, What are they?—The haunt of the tyrant and slave! The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham He kissed the ground repeatedly, and each time he did so three sweet-scented wax-tapers were put into his hand. The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands She appealed to his selfish delight like a sweet-scented flower, like a pink or a rose. Madelon A Novel "Indeed, a sweet-scented Frenchman, that Capuchin priest," he said carelessly. Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France The flowers were not made into stiff bouquets, but here and there was a handful of roses or sweet-scented violets. Divers Women And he held up in his thin, grimy hand a bunch of white, sweet-scented violets. Christmas Stories And Legends You will find that youth does not vanish with the rose, that you need never close the sweet-scented manuscript of love, science, art or literature. Masques & Phases True, a blind man could know the lovely wallflowers and hyacinths and violets and all these sweet-scented things by their smell. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life The winter was severe, and mother and child hibernated together by the sweet-scented pinewood fires till the stronger sun had melted the frost flowers on the panes. The Mormon Prophet The beautiful oleander, magnificent rose and sweet-scented geranium, here united their fragrance, while the scarlet verbenum and brilliant heliotrope added beauty to the scene. Tempest and Sunshine They also pronounce some prayers, anoint themselves with sweet-scented oil, and smoke the entrance of the cavern with gumbenjamin. Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters, and Habits This great hall was perfectly empty, but yet it did not feel chilly, and a faint pleasant perfume stole through it, as if not far off sweet-scented flowers and plants were growing. The Tapestry Room A Child's Romance These baths were finer than the baths of Havre—full of sweet-scented odours and the deliciously intoxicating fumes of good soap and plenteous boiling-water. Adventures of a Despatch Rider There are the oak and the opaque ilex, the pine and the poplar, the dark, funereal cypress, the bright flower of the too-short-lived rose, and the sweet-scented bed of violets. Horace and His Influence It grows to a much larger size than the cultivated kind, and yields a different sort of resin called kaminian dulong or sweet-scented benzoin. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants Beyond the bridge they passed across a lower level, jungle clad with delicate bamboos and dhak, and sweet-scented shrubs, and clusters of gorgeous oleanders. Caste The laurel and the shrub, the vine and sweet-scented jessamine roofed his dwelling, and clambered up between his closed eyelids and the stars. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader So we walked along, I and an old servant, stopping to enter an arbor, or to raise the head of a drooping plant, or to pluck a sweet-scented shrub, and place it in my bosom. Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is Odoriferous, sweet-scented, fragrant; having a brisk, agreeable smell which may be perceived at a distance. A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition. I notice here that the tree Mfu, or Mö, having sweet-scented leaves, yields an edible plum in clusters. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 They went and presented to it a pipe of peace, filled with sweet-scented herbs, and were rejoiced that it took it from them. Myths That Every Child Should Know A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People You can't sell a sweet-scented, prim old-maidy newspaper to enough people to pay for the z's in one font of type. The Clarion The coffin was empty, save for the sweet-scented cushion of roughly covered pine tassels on which the body of the gaunt old Cameron had been laid to rest. What Necessity Knows This, like many other sweet-scented plants, does not repay the labor of collecting its odor. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants As a pot plant too, the Nicotiana is exceedingly useful, the large sweet-scented white, soft pink, and rich red coloured flowers being very attractive. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition The great coffee finca of El Triunfo occupied an irregular valley, the slopes of which were covered with thousands of coffee-trees, with their magnificent dark green leaves and sweet-scented, white flowers. In Indian Mexico (1908) In the hand of every little boy and girl were bunches for sale of wild cyclamens, blue anemones, and sweet-scented violets, surrounded by their own leaves, and neatly tied up with thread. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood The stars of the Canadian sky had faded and become invisible in the light of a moon that hung low and glorious, giving light to the dry, sweet-scented haze of autumn air. What Necessity Knows In his essay, which contains many interesting details about the practical use of benzol, he speaks likewise of the possibility of soon obtaining the sweet-scented nitrobenzol in great quantity. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants I will let bring to thee perfume and spices, myrrh and sweet-scented woods, and incense of the sanctuaries wherewithal every god is propitiated. The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology His brain insists on making photographs of Margaret's drawing-room, with its screens here and its pots there, and the tall jar filled with the sweet-scented flowers of early summer. The Hoyden This sweet-scented wood has been used immemorially as an incense throughout eastern countries, and was early introduced into Europe by the Portuguese. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. Cautiously we crept along the prairie, sometimes partly concealed by tall, rank grass and sweet-scented shrubs, until we were forty rods from the tree under which the kangaroo was sporting. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia Mother Stina, on her way to the Ingmar Farm, stopped whenever she came to a hawthorn in bloom, or a hillock decked with white, sweet-scented lilies of the valley. Jerusalem When he again awoke to an interest in his surroundings, he felt that a soft hand was smoothing his brow, and the air was cooled by a delicious sweet-scented breeze. The Flamingo Feather Gathering her draperies, hiding her starry jewels in misty scarves, Night fled in seeming fear, leaving behind her a trail of sweet-scented, silver-embroidered purple, grey and saffron garments, which melted in the warmth of love. The Hawk of Egypt Some of these trees were sweet-scented, and reddish within the bark, like the sassafras, but redder. A Voyage to New Holland Lord Beauregard called again; and then, with a little preliminary prancing of the leaders, away swung the big vehicle through the clear darkness of the sweet-scented summer night. Macleod of Dare Again we set off from beneath the sweet-scented shade, and now no doubt remained that I was the object of very hostile evolutions. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance He had remembered that the first day he beheld her a nosegay had decorated his button-hole; a fair, sweet-scented thing which seemed, in some subtle way, like her. What Answer? The wind howled round the house, and whuffled in the chimney, and sent spurts of sweet-scented smoke to mingle with the fuller flavour of Graeme's tobacco. Pearl of Pearl Island And his hands suddenly gripped the girl by her shoulders and pulled her towards him, at which roughness she smiled, as women do when so treated, and rested her sweet-scented head above his heart. Desert Love Large sweet-scented violets, purple and white; deep pink roses; hyacinths with the biggest of blue bells; as well as many others she did not know. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) N. undulata, or suaveolens, sweet-scented or New Holland tobacco, a green house perennial, native of New South Wales, with white flowers, which is only two feet high. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. Golden broom mixes with the dark purple of the great French lavender, and over the whole mass of blossom wave plumes of Mediterranean heath and sweet-scented yellow coronilla. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series Then sing for the willow, the wild weeping willow, That droops in the smiles of the summer-born times, And mourns in the kiss of the sweet-scented billow, When beaming and gleaming are dripping with chimes! Oklahoma and Other Poems They are lounging once more 'neath the sweet-scented limes; See how closely he watches the Queen of Coquettes, As her white hands roll deftly those small cigarettes! Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry "Listen," cried she to Marouckla; "you must go up the mountain and find me some violets, I want some to put in my gown; they must be fresh and sweet-scented—do you hear?" Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) "No, mamma; and what a treat it is to take it in your dear company," Elsie responded, gathering a lovely, sweet-scented flower and placing it in the bosom of her mother's dress. Grandmother Elsie He set her down, and while he exchanged greetings with Mr. Dinsmore, she ran to her mother with a bouquet of lovely sweet-scented spring blossoms they had been gathering "for mamma." Elsie's Womanhood For it is not given to woman to live in sweet-scented, narrow rooms and at the same time be a little sister to all the world. The Road I met with no heather—it is to be seen in Saghalien, which has several things in common with Scotland—but found masses of sweet-scented thyme. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People He would give them two thousand pounds of sweet-scented a year for the child's maintenance. Audrey Her sweet-scented breath stealing gently up his nostrils soothed away all his care—even the remembrance of his recent loss. The Sorcery Club Flowers are usually put in the finger bowls, a little spray of any sweet-scented flower, but "corsage bouquets" laid at the places with flower pins complete are in very bad taste. Etiquette Or was it but the fine, sensitive petals behind her that stirred when kissed by the sweet-scented breeze? Half A Chance In one place it was supposed to be the habitat of a household god, and anything aromatic or sweet-scented which the family happened to get was presented as an offering. Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before They say that there are ladies in Virginia whose charms well-nigh outweigh their dowries of sweet-scented and Oronoko. Audrey What fragrant plant might need her sweet-scented tresses to increase the perfume of its leaves? Abbe Mouret's Transgression O, what mountains of sweet-scented green boughs it took! Buffalo Roost Thyme and rosemary and suchlike sweet-scented things grew on the terrace about the tank, and ten trimmed little trees of Arbor vitae stood sentinel. Mr. Britling Sees It Through In the hearth there was a glint of fire and a blue, sweet-scented puff of wood smoke; a great black oak beam roughly hewn crossed the ceiling. The Angels of Mons The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War A brazen, dissembling, atheistical Demas, who will neither let go of the lusts of the flesh nor of his parish,—a sweet-scented parish, sir, with the best glebe in three counties! Audrey Pulling off their clothes, they proceeded to drag them over the sweet-scented meadow grass. The Sign of the Red Cross There were summer trips in the hot sun of July days; autumn trips in the cool, sweet-scented evenings when the mountain twilight lingers on the treetops and the rocky crests. Buffalo Roost But he didn't; he was merely conscious of a sudden inrush of high spirits—of a warm feeling for all the world—this star-set world, so still and sweet-scented. The Common Law Following the maidens, we now took our way along a winding vale; where, by sweet-scented hedges, flowed blue-braided brooks; their tributaries, rivulets of violets, meandering through the meads. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II These plants were Oronoko; the mild sweet-scented took the higher ground. Audrey These were composed of the stimulating leaves of the "Aina," mixed with the long yellow blades of a sweet-scented upland grass; forming a hollow stem. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I Packs were quickly removed and unfolded, dry sticks gathered for the fire, and sweet-scented balsam boughs were cut and brought to the tree. Buffalo Roost In the summer season the sleeping houses of Maori chiefs were often strewed with a large, sweet-scented, flowering grass of powerful odor. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Realizing the girl's rank, he returns at once to Kauai to fetch his five sweet-scented sisters to act as ambassadresses and bring him honor as a wooer. The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai When the wine was well-nigh spent, they brought to their masters long pipes and japanned boxes filled with sweet-scented. Audrey In one corner of the garden, near the summer kitchen, stood a large bush of black currants, from the yellow, sweet-scented blossoms of which Aunt Sarah's bees, those "Heaven instructed mathematicians," sucked honey. Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" From this it will be seen that P. grandis is one of the most useful kinds, its large, sweet-scented flowers, and its free-growing nature, rendering it of exceptional value as a decorative plant. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation Wallflower On this May morning we not only see, but also smell, one of the flowers which grow upon the wall--it is the beautiful sweet-scented Wallflower. Wildflowers of the Farm Groves of the feathery bamboo drooped their delicate stems in the fervent, sweet-scented heat, over the white, thick-lipped lilies, from one to other of which passed languidly on velvet wings great purple butterflies. Six Women On an upright slab or table at the head of the grave there was a long inscription or epitaph, and about the house there were many sweet-scented waters and other perfumes. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Here, close at hand, were warm meadows, with calves and lambs cropping the sweet-scented Dutch clover. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Its flowers expand in the evening, and are sweet-scented. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation You have given me the right to love you—by the light of the stars, under the sweet-scented acacias, in the sunlight at the window of Richard's donjon which opens over an abyss. The Cross of Berny Antonyms: fetor, stench, inodorousness. fragrant, a. sweet-smelling, redolent, aromatic, balmy, sweet-scented. Putnam's Word Book The entire street from his dwelling to the pile was strewed with sweet-scented herbs and flowers, and adorned with rich hangings, correspondent to the magnificence of the pile. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Like a perfect youth of the ancients marked for a sweet-scented offering to the gods, he was to go his way in perfect freedom until his appointed time. Broken to the Plow The big trees on the banks were clothed with airplants, draped with long, flowing gray moss and garlanded with flowering and sweet-scented vines. Dick in the Everglades There are the swallows and the sweet-scented grass. Savva and the Life of Man Two plays by Leonid Andreyev Many other minor tributes to the Emaums are discovered near the Tazia, as choice fruits and garlands of sweet-scented flowers, the offerings of ladies of the family to their relative's Tazia. Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society George Eliot, in the novel of "Adam Bede," gives a charming description of Hetty Sorrel's butter-making, with all the pretty attitudes and movements of patting and rolling the sweet-scented butter into moulds. Jean Francois Millet I remember her references only to the Daphne Odora, the Provence Rose, the sweet-scented Verbena, and the Heliotrope; the latter being her chosen emblem, true bride of the sun that it is. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II Instead of glass, there is grass in the windows: the blinds are made of sweet-scented grass, and servants outside continually pour water on the grass to make the air cool. Far Off The garden gate was locked, but she managed to turn the key, and went slowly, in a maze of delight, along the trim paths, past beds of roses, hollyhocks, pansies, and sweet-scented gilly-flowers. Thankful Rest I have seen very pretty punkahs made of sweet-scented flowers over a frame of bamboo. Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society The wood of this graceful tree is sweet-scented, of a rich dark-brown colour, and being very hard, it is in great request with the natives for making their boomerangs and spearheads. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 They were driving down sweet-scented country lanes now. Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point Standing Firm for Flag and Honor Directly beneath him a natural fountain threw its sparkling showers on beds of sweet-scented and gayly-colored flowers. The Vale of Cedars They rambled through sweet-scented paths, under the high-flung network of stars, hearing only the crunching of little pebbles under foot. Murder in Any Degree The coel's food is simply the suction from the petals of sweet-scented flowers. Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society The blossoming field of lucerne was usually a common enough sight, but now it was a stretch of sweet-scented waves of green and purple. Dorian "Come," she pleaded, "let us put it all away--this turmoil of men's hatred ... let us walk here in the sweet-scented evening and forget." Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts Captain Kettle buried his friend in the first gold of the next dawn under a magnolia tree, which was hung with sweet-scented blossoms, in the middle of the village. A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle I also obtained specimens of a beautiful plant, a shrub about two feet high, with white sweet-scented blossoms, belonging to the natural order Rubiaceae, and several other interesting plants. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 But few flowers are open; only those of the sweet-scented Paullinia greet me with a balmy fragrance, and thine, lofty mango, the dark shade of whose leafy crown shields me from the dews of night. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 537, March 10, 1832 There she stood, during the brief moments which sealed her earthly doom, with downcast eyes and utterly dejected posture; her thin fingers playing mechanically with the flowers and sweet-scented herbs spread scantily before her. The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney The largest crop he ever seems to have produced, "being all sweet-scented and neatly managed," was one hundred and fifteen hogsheads, which averaged in sale twelve pounds each. The True George Washington [10th Ed.] Its name is Shushan, the City of Lilies, and it is so called from the fields of sweet-scented iris flowers which surround it. The King's Cup-Bearer I rode down the sweet-scented sage-slopes under the shadow of the lofty Mittens, and around and across the valley, and back again to the height of land. Tales of lonely trails This balmy air brings with it perfumes wafted from sweet-scented flowers, which spring spontaneously in the green spots known to the gazelle, who repairs to them to drink. Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay Pressed so earnestly to return to dinner, he had promised to do so; and evening, the sweet-scented May evening, found him once more at Hyde Park. Wife in Name Only We will gather flowers … and partake of refreshments … we will then bathe in the sea and … anoint our skins in the sun with sweet-scented oil, and will plait in wreaths the flowers gathered at Matáwlo. Primitive Love and Love-Stories And thus answered Ahura-Mazda, Purest, Heavenly: 'When the Third Night turns Itself to Light, the soul arises and goes forward; and a wind blows to meet it; a sweet-scented one, more sweet-scented than other winds.' Ailsa Paige B Babianas.—Charming, sweet-scented flowers, suitable for either pot cultivation or the border. Gardening for the Million No sweet-scented woodbine or pale monthly roses beautified the front of the house in spring or summer time. Fenton's Quest Talking happily about the fun they would have on this week-end party, they rode along the pleasant country roads, bordered with flowering apple trees, and drank in the sweet-scented air with unbounded delight. The Camp Fire Girls at School Or, The Wohelo Weavers He bowed his head, and they passed beneath the sweet-scented array of blossoms and buds. A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 Then her arms were loosed from about Dom Manuel, and she fell away from him, and was swallowed by the gray sweet-scented depths. Figures of Earth N. Affinis bears long, tubular, sweet-scented, white flowers in July, and grows to the height of 3 ft. Gardening for the Million These were sweet-scented blossoms to blow so early on the tree of Squatter-Sovereignty, at that time scarcely four years old! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 It stands at the bend where the road has its end, And the blackberries nod on the vine; And the sun flickers down to its gables of brown, Through the sweet-scented boughs of the pine. Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse Agrimony, mint, and marjoram, with a tall inula, and the pretty, sweet-scented white melilot, were in great abundance along the bank. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine These were succeeded by olive-trees, the olives by vines, these by sweet-scented shrubs, and these again by timber trees, whose wood was useful for building. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love O. Haastii has foliage resembling the Box, and a profusion of white, sweet-scented flowers in summer: a chalk soil suits it admirably. Gardening for the Million In the eleventh century it was the center of the Eden of India, broad, fertile plains, magnificent forests of sweet-scented trees, abounding in population and prosperity. Modern India Sims' Island furnished a very large addition to Mr. Cunningham's collection, and among the flowers which it produced was a very beautiful sweet-scented asclepias. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Above, the sky was another deep blue lake lilied with stars; and as darkness fell, hot and sweet-scented as the veil of an Eastern woman, slowly the boundaries were lost between forest and garden. The Port of Adventure I was up the bank lying full length on the sweet-scented grass and gasping in company with my first salmon caught, played and landed on an eight-ounce rod. American Notes Eupatorium Odoratum.—A greenhouse shrub which bears sweet-scented white flowers in August, continuing in bloom for a long while. Gardening for the Million She fed them, and led them away, through tempest and tropical heat, Till they reached the far regions of day, and sweet-scented spaces of wheat. The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens He seemed, for a moment, to remember lying on his back in some sweet-scented place, and gazing at it through moving branches, long ago. Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty Now this wood was very fair to look at from without, and seemed full of singing birds and of sweet-scented flowers, and the Star-Child entered it gladly. A House of Pomegranates More days slipped by, and Polly began to creep through the little, soft-leaved trees at the back of the church, and to look for the deep, blue, sweet-scented violets. Polly of the Circus He can brave a moonlight walk adown sweet-scented lanes or a twilight pull among the somber rushes. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow I hear the wild wood-birds pouring their sprightly carols on the sweet-scented morning. The Life of General Francis Marion Some of the cook's copper-coloured subjects now advanced from the forest with long garlands of beautiful flowers, white and sweet-scented, and hung them respectfully round the neck of their new sovereign. The Phoenix and the Carpet The sweet-scented leaves of the flower on my left hand just brushed my cheek as I lightly rested my head against the railing. The Woman in White She is taught to pay great attention to the care of her long, glossy locks, combing, plaiting, and perfuming them with sweet-scented leaves steeped in oil. Old Indian Days If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal—that is your success. Walden Our horses were up to the eyes in corn and sweet-scented fodder; while, as to ourselves, nothing that air, land, or water could furnish, was good enough for us. The Life of General Francis Marion She fetched warm water and put just enough eau de Cologne in it, and bathed mother's face and hands with the sweet-scented water. The Phoenix and the Carpet Granitic hills appeared on each side, and the sweet-scented Callitris grew around, with many a curious shrub never seen to the eastward of these ranges. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Then the morning sunshine flooded the soft, undulating Warwickshire country, and slanted freshly through the bordering elms in sweet-scented lanes. Viviette A sweet-scented preparation I've had, thought I, but aloud I said only, "If Ned Ferry clears out, I suppose we must clear out, too." The Cavalier And Melicent came to the Dacian woman, and put one arm about her in that dim, sweet-scented place, saying, "I never meant to wrong you." Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship Her trembling hand Closed his loose fingers on the awkward stem Covered above with gentle heart-shaped leaves And under dangling, pale as honey-wax, Square clusters of sweet-scented starry flowers. Georgian Poetry 1918-19 Well known and popular, for its sweet-scented yellow flowers in May; 5-8 ft. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) The character of this journal was mainly political; but there are also a few flowers and sweet-scented twigs of literature intermixed among the nettles and burs, which alone flourish in the arena of party strife. Biographical Sketches (From: "Fanshawe and Other Pieces") Do not consider whether they are of precious and sweet-scented wood or not. The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales The old home had vanished, the sweet-scented meadows, the tinkling bells, the peace and the plenty, were as utterly things of the past as though they had not been. Ester Ried Yet Speaking The flowers, which are sweet-scented, are not so large as those of I. glandulosa, and are produced singly, the ray florets being, however, much more numerous, rarely numbering less than thirty. Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 Beside her lay a cluster of delicately curved, faintly tinged, tea-scented roses; while she was only blue hyacinth bells, pale primroses, amethyst anemones, closed blood-coloured daisies, purple violets, and one sweet-scented, pure white orchis. Adela Cathcart, Volume 1 We found the valley Mezeiryk full of excellent pasture; many sweet-scented herbs were growing in it, and the acacia trees were all green. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land Because the Yellow Water-lily has the misfortune to claim relationship with the sweet-scented white species must it never receive its just meed of praise? Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Jerusalem is fallen! still thou art in bloom, As fresh as the ivy around the lone tomb, And fair as the lily of morning that waves Its sweet-scented bells over desolate graves. Poems Chiefly from Manuscript I met him and welcomed him and making him sit down on a couch befitting his condition, set before him sweet-scented flowers in vases of china and crystal of various colours. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III As soon as it was day, I rose and changed my clothes and perfumed myself with essences and sweet-scented smoke. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I It began already to grow dusk as he walked across the sweet-scented heather. Dame Care This time there is a heaviness like sleep on both, a heaviness that draws both together inaudibly and down, and down, as if they were sinking through piled thickness on thickness of warm, sweet-scented grass. Young People's Pride A Novel She wove a chain of the sweet-scented grass with which the Indians delight in adorning themselves, likewise in perfuming their lodges with bunches or strewings upon the floor. Canadian Crusoes The sweet-scented geranium abounded and so did the crowberry, which is a finer and sweeter kind than that which grows nearer the settlement. Three Years in Tristan da Cunha I was also much gratified to see vessels containing fresh sweet-scented flowers standing on all the machines. The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation It was the 2d of November, when the friends and relatives of the dead came to scatter emblematic wreaths and sweet-scented flowers on their graves. Purgatory A tiny fountain trickled from a grotto built of stones: an acacia against the wall hung its sweet-scented branches over the next garden. Jean-Christophe Journey's End They also pronounce some prayers, anoint themselves with sweet-scented oils, and smoke the entrance of the cavern with gum- benjamin. Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side The violets were lovely, sweet-scented and blue and modest and everything that orthodox violets ought to be. Monitress Merle For several minutes the pipe, with the sweet-scented kinny-kinick, was passed from one to another in silence. Birch Bark Legends of Niagara This lady was in the habit of reading Byron and Shelley in a rich, sweet-scented meadow, down by the river, which flowed dreamily through smiling pasture-lands adorned by spreading trees. A Mummer's Wife But what can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression? Daniel Deronda A long time they sat together, silent, in the sweet-scented gloom within the flower-girt arbor. Darkness and Dawn Our evening primrose is thought to be uniformly sweet-scented, but the past season I examined many specimens, and failed to find one that was so. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton There the mates of a lord of too pungent a fragrance Securely through brake and o'er precipice climb, And crop, as they wander in happiest vagrance, The arbutus green, and the sweet-scented thyme. Horace The wooden Vessels, or open Tubs, must not be made of any Wood that is unwholesome, or sweet-scented; such as Deal, Firr, or Manchineel. The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm Marget's was an old-fashioned garden, with pinks and daisies and forget-me-nots, with sweet-scented wall-flower and thyme and moss roses, where nature had her way, and gracious thoughts could visit one without any jarring note. Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush How sweet-scented and delicately colored are its blossoms! The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne It has two oblong shining leaves, with a scape four or five inches high strung with sweet-scented, pink- purple flowers. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton Flowers: white, or greenish on side; sweet-scented, especially at night. The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 The sweet-scented woodbine I shall not withhold, Nor rare perfumed lilies, Like pure burnished gold. The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects Seldom has Nature seemed more beautiful than on that bright cloudless morning, as we rode through sweet-scented uplands of beans and clover, meadows of deep rich grass. A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán But while she was prowling about the sweet-scented stable, much disappointed at the result of her investigations, she stumbled against a ladder which led to an open trap-door. Phantom Fortune, a Novel Along a sweet-scented lane, with shady limes overhead and honeysuckle and wild roses growing in profusion on the hedges at each side, walked Teddy's mother, holding her little son tightly by the hand. Teddy's Button There it enlivens the spot with its pretty evergreen foliage, and sweet-scented, white or pinky flowers. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs Among other costly articles of commerce, the ship was laden with 800 casks of Malmsey wine, and a great quantity of sweet-scented Cyprus wood, with pepper and ginger. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time There are three hundred and sixty-five fountains of water round the city, as many of honey, and five hundred rather smaller of sweet-scented oil, besides seven rivers of milk and eight of wine. Trips to the Moon My father, exhaling sweet-scented smoke, assented—'How,' Then interrupting the 'Eya' on the lips of the round-eyed talebearer, he asked, 'My friend, will you smoke?' American Indian stories Nancy discovered him a few minutes later, lying full length in the sweet-scented clover, an open book before him. Teddy's Button The tubular, sweet-scented flowers are produced in clusters at the ends of the shoots, even the smallest, and are of a very delicate shade of pink—indeed, almost white. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs Then to my room, where over innumerable pipes of sweet-scented, I struggled with some halting verses of my own until my candle guttered in its stick. A Soldier of Virginia The whole place was like a mad, sweet-scented dream to one just come from the unfeatured ocean, and with a memory only of grim Scots cities and dour Scots hills. Salute to Adventurers Nestling into her bed of sweet-scented grass, she dozed away into another dream. American Indian stories The wood is fine-grained and of a beautiful, creamy yellow color like box, sweet-scented when dry, though the green leaves emit a disagreeable odor. The Mountains of California The sweet-scented flowers, particularly so in the evening, are of a purplish-brown or scarlet-purple, and produced in axillary racemes of from ten to a dozen in each. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs Carnations.—These sweet-scented flowers bring happiness, faithfulness, love, and good friends. 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