| 单词 | ambrosial |
| 例句 | The first six days of the trek went by in an ambrosial blur. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Low she sang in her beguiling voice, while on her loom she wove ambrosial fabric sheer and bright, by that craft known to the goddesses of heaven. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Veteran hearts at this contained their dread while at your side the daughters of the ancient seagod wailed and wrapped ambrosial shrouding around you. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the unsanitary presentation, the milk was ambrosial—fragrantly nutty, delightfully heavy on the tongue, unlike anything I had encountered before. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Her work that threads through the ambrosial orchestration of Love This Giant at times represents the clutch edges and jagged fragments. David Bryne & St. Vincent Go Big with Love This Giant 2012-09-11T17:00:26Z Who remembers this: ambrosial jelly doughnuts, the dough infused with vodka from the legendary Black Hound Bakery on Second Ave? Doughnuts in New York City from Carpe Donut NYC to Pies 'N' Thighs 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z The sake should be ambrosial, sure, but what they really want is something flagrantly expensive and difficult to find. In Las Vegas, a Good Story Helps Sell Expensive Sakes 2011-02-02T05:40:04Z Its lovers also sacrifice romance for less ambrosial temptations. A little rain must fall: the tragic secret of a musical movie masterpiece 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z My own kids are now college-aged, and I am frankly still not over Pirate's Booty discontinuing their hauntingly ambrosial Fruity Booty flavor. Molly Yeh's nutty no-bake marshmallow squares are too good to share with your kids 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Instead, in the sad absence of school meals supervisors proffering chipped bowls of ambrosial stodge, this column will look at how to take a pleasant trip down memory lane from the comfort of your kitchen. How to cook the perfect spotted dick 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z You’ll want to capitalize on the ambrosial: incredible tomatoes, peppers, sweet corn, green beans and summer squash. Let the Flavors Do the Work 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z On their ambrosial island, unencumbered by obligation or necessity, Patricia and her two offspring get together to create the perfect experience. Is Archipelago a class act or an empty gesture? 2011-03-14T12:05:29Z For dessert, the choice is yes or no to pudim – an ambrosial creamy flan in caramel sauce – made daily by Freire's mum. Rio's hottest place to eat – the favelas 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z I decide as I shove an ambrosial forkful into my mouth, let’s review! T Magazine: Pigs and a Blanket 2011-09-29T14:00:20Z At Posto Publico, postopubblico.com, one of the latest and best additions to the city's dining scene, the ambrosial white pouches are served alongside fresh tomatoes as one of several tapas-style Italian dishes. Buffalo Mozzarella: Hong Kong's Prodigal Cheese 2010-04-01T11:45:00Z As a fiction writer, this stuff was ambrosial. 'Mess' author straightens out readers about clutter and hoarding 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z I saw lots of sushi and sipping from small teacups while nibbling on ambrosial desserts. Be the Star of Your Own Snapchat Story 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The one I sampled was ambrosial and diametrically opposed to the anemic citruses I’m used to, which tend to be picked before their time and left to ripen slowly under grocery-store fluorescents. Try New Fruit. The Weirder, the Better. 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z The liberal city had long been known nationally for its ambrosial food scene, craft breweries and nature-loving hipsters. Oregon’s biggest city has ‘long way to go’ repairing its rep 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z This crisp starts in that tried-and-true style, but its ambrosial coconut topping takes it to another level, bringing an exciting and unexpected dimension. Coconut adds a tropical touch to this summer berry crisp 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Clark Gable and Richard Nixon got aces on this ambrosial track. The golf verdict on O.J. - Golf Digest 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z A dollop of celery sorbet melts into the chilled soup, an ambrosial blend of almonds and green grapes rounded with sherry vinegar. Artistic and approachable, the menu at Seattle’s Violet showcases chef William Belickis’ many talents 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Sweet potatoes raise to ambrosial heights, honeyed and warm. You’re going where? Pensacola, Fla. 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z At night the pendulous blooms release an ambrosial scent. What a showoff: Ghostly Brugmansia delivers spectacular garden blooms 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z But the scent of the cabbage was ambrosial: sweet-bitter, approximating caramel on the razor’s edge of burned. A Caramelized Cabbage Casserole to Get You to Spring 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Le Pavillon set the mid-century style for fine French dining in New York—much of it classic brasserie fare refined by its estimable chef, Pierre Franey, into an almost ambrosial simplicity. Dining Down Memory Lane 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z And while breakfast at Olympic Stadium failed to produce a world record, it supplied a buffet of ambrosial outcomes. For U.S. Men in Triple Jump, a Gold, a Silver and a ‘Yes’ 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z For braised lettuce — especially ambrosial if, as suggested here, a discreet anchovy or 10 are permitted — everything is fast and minimal. A New Leaf 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Lunch proved just as consistently ambrosial and prettily presented. Review: At Vespa, Italian Authenticity With a Contemporary Vroom 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z But that preparation, many consumers maintained, made perked coffee taste ambrosial in comparison. Vincent Marotta Sr., a Creator of Mr. Coffee, Dies at 91 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Like other utopias—like Walt Disney World, like the ambrosial lands shown in perfume advertisements, like the competitive Valhalla of the Olympics—the university is a place of wish fulfillment and infinite possibility. College is ripping you off: Students are cash cows, and schools the predators 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z On sped the ambrosial hours of the spring evening. Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create 2012-04-03T02:00:30.247Z He even idealized blueberries, "a very innocent ambrosial taste, as if made of ether itself, as they are colored with it." Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Their expertise became clear at once in an ambrosial starter — fresh figs stuffed with Gorgonzola cheese and prosciutto etched with vincotto, a cooked wine. | New Canaan: A Review of the Tuscan Osteria and Mercato, in New Canaan 2012-03-03T00:20:33Z What their unplanted fruits? what the cool draughts, The ambrosial food, rich gums, and spicy health, Their forests yield? their toiling insects what, Their silky pride, and vegetable robes? Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z An epicure might have complained of the smoky flavor, but to the boys, seated on the leaf-carpeted ground flecked with the sunlight that sifted through the trees, the food was simply ambrosial. The Radio Boys at Mountain Pass The Midnight Call for Assistance 2012-01-02T03:00:17.697Z Even as she spake, a throng of heavenly forms Floated around me, filling all my soul With fair unearthly beauty, and the air With such ambrosial perfume as is born. The Epic of Hades In Three Books 2011-11-16T03:00:28.060Z So like a heavenly soul's ambrosial breath, It would not wake but only deepen Sleep Into diviner Death! The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z Bright sunlight shone on them for weeks together, and it was but seldom a cold blast whipped the still, blue lake where the shadows of the cedars that distilled ambrosial essences lay asleep. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z But rouses forth each power of mind and soul With food ambrosial and its fairy bowl. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z Wisdom is theirs; they live for us and grow, Like things ambrosial, fairer than the freaks Of signs and seasons which the poets know, Or fires of sunset on the mountain-peaks. Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z “My dear fellow, my dear fellow,” he murmured almost in disparagement, stroking his ambrosial beard from before the empty fireplace. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z When Titho´nus became old and decrepit, Aurora still watched over him with the tenderest care, “giving him ambrosial food and fair garments.” The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z Everywhere falls the ambrosial Smell of the garlands immortal; Everywhere tones of an infinite Iris-bow, bent for achievement, Pass the promise of Noah— Ours not promise, ours fulfilment! The Piper and the Reed 2011-09-10T02:00:23.967Z To these he gave the titles the aromatic, the fragrant, the ambrosial—our stage-coach traveller had them all three. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z The meal was as simple as a meal could be, but for him it had ambrosial flavours. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z To Madame Lavoisier he used terms that communicate to us an even more vivid conception of the ambrosial years that he had passed in France. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z In taking them out ov a trap grate judgment must be had not tew shake them up; the more yu shake them up the more ambrosial they am. The Complete Works of Josh Billings 2011-07-01T02:00:13.387Z There is here a base odour of coffee and Bremen cigars, but no fumigation yet floats on the air from the ambrosial drink of the gods.' The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-23T02:00:27.103Z You smelled it in his ambrosial locks; you saw it in his self-satisfied face, and heard it in his inharmonious voice. Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z Afar off, in the east, the Seasons had opened the massive Gates of Cloud, and we had a glimpse of the old Olympian gods in conclave august, feasting upon ambrosial food. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z Only a tad less ambrosial was the country-style pâté, a coarsely textured pork-veal-bacon pâté with warm raisin toast, which arrived in a circle of alternating dabs of balsamic reduction and Dijon mustard. | Dining Greenwich: ?Contemporary French? and Consistent Elegance 2011-04-02T01:13:52Z So high he went, with such celerity, It seemed as for some god-like merit he Carried from earth, like great Alcides, To Jupiter's ambrosial side is. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z Much have I quaffed of the contemptible juice here denominated ambrosial punch. The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-23T02:00:27.103Z Oh! the first Cook, in that ambrosial, unwithering Halcyon, rapturous, and honeymooning prime!— Punch,or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893 2011-04-02T02:00:12.230Z As we pass eastward of Bay Street, the memory comes back of Franco Rossi, the earliest scientific confectioner of York, who had on the south side, near here, a depot, ever fragrant and ambrosial. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z These were the confirmed old topers, who had imbibed so much of the ambrosial dew that their bodies had grown fat and unwieldy, and had very large stomachs. Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z Their mouths were closely pressed in one long kiss, as thirsty lips that cleave unto the brim of some ambrosial aphrodisiac cup. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z And next she threw Around her an ambrosial robe, the work Of Pallas, all its web embroidered o'er With forms of rare device. Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z The young man had calmed down, but the ambrosial beauty of the summer morning had disappeared. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z Our first Thanksgiving turkey had been eaten, though a great stone crock of Mrs. Pillig’s incomparable mincemeat still yielded up its treasures for ambrosial pies. The Idyl of Twin Fires Jove latest spoke: "One boon remains," he said, And bent serenely his ambrosial head; "The last, best boon, which I alone bestow;" Then bade the waters of Affliction flow. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 He made no reply, only shook his ambrosial locks thoughtfully and struck my shoulder with his hand, like a prince accepting the homage and service of a vassal. The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History The herald Argicide obeyed, And hastily beneath his feet he bound The fair ambrosial golden sandals, worn To bear him over ocean like the wind, And o'er the boundless land. Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z I felt that that long ambrosial kiss, the intensity of which had so exhausted my beloved, had imparted to me a new life. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I Why in this thorny wilderness so long, Since there’s no promised land’s ambrosial bower, 783 To pay me with its honey for my stings? Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes Let us drink ambrosial wine, and eat the juiciest of meats, and clothe ourselves with the finest and strongest of tissues. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar To David's lips, King of the skilful brush, Bear the ambrosial cup. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty Most likely she represents the second handmaiden of Aphrodite, Charis, who, according to the myth, bathed and anointed her mistress with ambrosial oil in the holy grove of Paphos. Greek Women Merciful one, forgiving one, with the grace of the Holy Spirit, Pray with us the true-judging King of the goodly ambrosial clan. Ancient Irish Poetry Call it, the garden of the Deity, Blossom’d with stars, redundant in the growth Of fruit ambrosial; moral fruit to man. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes High-flown phrases, apocalyptic sighs, and a marvellous tincture of ambrosial melancholy. The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels To such my errand is; and, but for such, 15 I would not soil these pure ambrosial weeds With the rank vapors of this sin-worn mould. Minor Poems by Milton His dream had been nourished on this ambrosial uncertainty. The Return of the Prodigal Cut my hair off—short, close to the roots—immediately; and here is a newspaper to hold the ambrosial curls.’ Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years What golden joys ambrosial clustering glow In His full beam, and ripen for the just, Where momentary ages are no more! Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes Has there been a fine shower of ambrosial phrases? The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels But Nature was just as fair that ambrosial September day as if there was not a dissonance. Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 Why this--this latest triumph is nectar--ambrosial stuff, Nick--more good, hearty body in it than any wines the gods ever quaffed. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography The bottle of cream and package of sugar tucked away in the picnic basket added all that heart could desire to this ambrosial luncheon. The Brownings Their Life and Art Wisdom, though richer than Peruvian mines, And sweeter than the sweet ambrosial hive, What is she, but the means of happiness? Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes There, as they supped, I caught Scraps of ambrosial talk concerning Will, His Venus and Adonis. Collected Poems Volume Two So did he speak, and, at pausing, he sign'd with his shadowy eyebrows, And the ambrosial curls from the Head Everlasting were shaken, And at the nod of the King deep-trembled the lofty Olympus. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 That airy mention of 'first books' caused a chill presentiment to pierce the ambrosial fumes by which I was surrounded. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography He thought that no goddess had ever done so divine a thing so ambrosially as she when she smiled and shook her incredibly exquisite head. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards Here were mountains, and lakes, and palaces, and plashed marble steps, and the music of lutes, and banquets of ambrosial things to which daily bread was as nothing. The Side Of The Angels A Novel I, 528-530: "Jove spake, and nodded his dark brow, and the ambrosial locks waved from his immortal head; and he made great Olympus quake." Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer With rosy hand the spicy fruit she brought, From Paphian hills, and fair Cythera’s isle; And temper’d sweet with these the melting thought, 15 The kiss ambrosial, and the yielding smile. The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir Whither, O father! and why art thou driving the mules and the horses Through the ambrosial night, when the rest of mankind are in slumber? Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 It has, however, a secondary signification, namely, that of an unguent, or perfume, hence fragrant; and this is probably the prevailing idea in our 'ambrosial': instance Milton's 'ambrosial flowers.' Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy He spake; the herald Argicide obeyed, And hastily beneath his feet he bound The fair, ambrosial, golden sandals, worn To bear him over ocean like the wind, And o'er the boundless land. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition Beauty displayed its charms arrayed in celestial robes, and ambrosial odors lulled the senses in luxurious indulgence. Henry IV, Makers of History Where wanton zephyrs court the ambient air, And sweets ambrosial banish every care; Where thought nor trouble social joy molest, Nor vain solicitude can banish rest. A Walk from London to Fulham And now, the rain having partly extinguished the inner, hidden flame, they come out to bask in the sun, and drink deeply of the ambrosial air. The Book of Khalid Behold them gliding down the azure hill Making the blue ambrosial with their light. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 Since vig’rous youth, all blooming, brisk, and gay, Excites our tender souls to sport and play, Let’s taste ambrosial pleasures while we may. Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness When the young god Pan had met us halfway and was warmly shaking hands, one saw that he wasn't quite such an ambrosial youth as he had seemed at a distance. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America Bruce entered the dingy Court House, mounted a foot-worn wooden stairway, browned with the ambrosial extract of two generations of tobacco-chewing litigants, and passed into a damp and gloomy chamber. Counsel for the Defense The moon struggles through the poplars to light the Temple for them, and the ambrosial breeze caresses their cheeks. The Book of Khalid She could never tell you how she made her ambrosial dishes—but if you had my luck to be persona gratis she could and did show you, to the queen's taste. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South He often tells us his ideal of happiness, a "pub" corner with half-a-dozen pint pots containing ambrosial "four 'arf" before him, and a well-seasoned old clay three inches long filled with black Irish twist. A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition I declined my coffee and some of Mrs. Carter's ambrosial apple pie, this evening, and I have been repenting ever since. From the Car Behind On angel-wings the Goddess Form descends, Round her fond broods her silver arms she bends; White streams of milk her tumid bosom swell, And on her lips ambrosial kisses dwell. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes The Scotchman grilled chops in his tiny kitchenette and baked macaroni too; and made ambrosial hot chocolate. Christopher and the Clockmakers Meanwhile, you commence a legitimate reprint, under the genuine Ebony arms, and reign as a kind of lord-lieutenant, under his ambrosial majesty, Christopher the Great. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. The air was full of ambrosial sweets, resembling those proceeding from an orange grove; a place which, though I had never seen at that time, I since have. The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' Not the lily-white sort served and known as such at home, but the golden ambrosial kind angels dream of—and surely were the Salvation Army ladies who saved me that day from starving, angels. The Greater Love Now I, with Sleep, this place have sought, Videhan lady, and have brought A gift of heaven's ambrosial food To stay thee in thy solitude. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse The cultivated female mind enchants the world, “And fills The air around with beauty; we inhale The ambrosial aspect, which, beheld, instils Part of its immortality.” The Young Maiden And the glory of youth clung around her, I felt her ambrosial breath on my cheek Like the scent and perfume of wild roses. The Forest King Wild Hunter of the Adaca Her there, the Graces laved, and oils diffused O’er all her form, ambrosial, such as add Fresh beauty to the Gods for ever young, And cloath’d her in the loveliest robes of heav’n. The Odyssey of Homer Lo, the ambassador who speaks Economy political, And with gray hair ambrosial The old man who has had his freaks, Renowned for his acumen, wit, But now ridiculous a bit. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse He takes us into the ambrosial world of heroes, of human vigor, of purity, of grace. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV Besides this, there are several secular 187 cantatas, particularly "King Trojan," which contains a singable tune for Trojan with many delicate nuances in the accompaniment, and a harp-accompanied page's song that is simply ambrosial. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions “I wrote your name, Cristóbal,” said he, in his ambrosial voice; and the situation was saved. The Car of Destiny What ambrosial nights we had in the homely millhouse after untiring days with our rods! Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler He approaches smiling, modest, humble—a consummate strategist; his ambrosial curls and powdered queue tied with its orange ribbon, shining in the sun. The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 The sun was beginning to set, and the rain of golden sunlight fell over them through the green ambrosial foliage of the tree, whose pale blossoms were still murmurous with bees. Eric, or Little by Little She was hungry, oh, so hungry! although two hours had not elapsed since dinner-time, and Deb's scones, with sweet, fresh country butter, was ambrosial food. Doctor Luttrell's First Patient Now you are going to taste Madame Poulard's omelettes—a food ambrosial. Barbara in Brittany O! those nights ambrosial, if not of Ambrose's, which dashed the somber picture of war round Richmond, with high-lights boldly put in by master-hands! Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death The Hours unyoked for them the fair-maned steeds, and bound them to the ambrosial mangers; but they tilted the chariots against the splendid walls. The Iliad of Homer (1873) And though he was a very ugly, lank, uncouth man, I protest he was as fair in my sight as if he had been the ambrosial angel described by Milton. The Frozen Pirate A yellow-jacket has found an ambrosial attraction here upon the bramble leaf. My Studio Neighbors The ambrosial food is despatched in aspiring draughts by the family, who soon give evident proofs of the enlivening effects of the Lagan-le-vrich. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries Sometimes he was lost in fits of Byronic gloom, when he frowned over his coffee, sighed gustily, and clutched his brow, regardless of the curls, usually in ambrosial order. Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag Next she threw around her an ambrosial robe, which Minerva had wrought 465 for her in needlework, and had embroidered much varied work upon it, and she fastened it upon her breast with golden clasps. The Iliad of Homer (1873) There was a cloud on his broad, Jovian, hilarious, Olympian brow, with its clustering ambrosial locks. The Lady of the Ice A Novel A freedom from debt, and what nourishing sweetness may be found in cold water; what toothsomeness in a dry crust; what ambrosial nourishment in a hard egg! Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power The midshipmen had no reason to complain of the breakfast spread before them on their return to the house; meats and sweets and fruits, unknown even by name; and such coffee, and perfectly ambrosial cacao. The Three Lieutenants "Give us a rant, Factor," and round the table they gathered: the candles were being lit, the ambrosial night was to begin. Doom Castle There nimble, swift-footed Iris stayed the steeds, having loosed them from the chariot, and set before them ambrosial fodder. The Iliad of Homer (1873) The air was full of ambrosial sweets, resembling those proceeding from an orange grove; a place, which though I had never seen at that time, I since have. The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" The pines along the river were still wet, and the wilderness was steeped in ambrosial odors. The Gold Trail "Am I to have some of this ambrosial bread, too, Cousin Molly?" Molly Brown's Orchard Home It is so still, that one can almost hear the trees of Paradise rustle in the ambrosial gales of heaven. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author But him it found sleeping in his tent, and ambrosial slumber was diffused around. The Iliad of Homer (1873) Everybody pitched in, and, having acquired ravenous appetites on their long ride, did the cooking in record time, and of course everything tasted ambrosial. The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue Robert Schumann may not sip ambrosial nectar with the gods in highest Valhall, but he served his generation; above all, he made happy one noble woman. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques A couple of hours were spent in combing and dressing the ambrosial locks of the young Apollo; then the barber's basin was washed with camphor soap. At the Sign of the Barber's Pole Studies In Hirsute History ‘I would not sully the purity of my heavenly garments with the noisome vapour of this sin-corrupted earth.’ ambrosial, heavenly; also used by Milton in the sense of ‘conferring immortality’: comp. l. Milton's Comus And then the ambrosial locks of the king were shaken over him from his immortal head; and he made mighty Olympus tremble. The Iliad of Homer (1873) "I have learned as my wings have borne me thro' groves Where gods their ambrosial nectar sip, That the heart's best experience ever proves, Joy comes not from presence, but companionship." Our Profession and Other Poems After months of city food her bread, pies, and cookies were ambrosial. Flood Tide It was a beautiful wood through which we drove—all of giant larch trees of a century's growth, perfuming the air with ambrosial odours. Dr. Dumany's Wife To such my errand is; and, but for such, I would not soil these pure ambrosial weeds With the rank vapours of this sin-worn mould. Milton's Comus Hear me, my friends: a divine dream came to me in sleep, during the ambrosial night, very like unto the noble Nestor, in form, in stature, and in mien. The Iliad of Homer (1873) The air was full of ambrosial sweets, resembling those proceeding from an orange grove; a place, which though I had p. 250never seen at that time, I since have. George Borrow The Man and His Books So saying, she turned, and all refulgent showed Her roseate neck, and heavenly fragrance sweet Was breathed from her ambrosial hair. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor In the midst of saddest grief I seemed to tread air, while the spirit of good shed round me an ambrosial atmosphere, which blunted the sting of sympathy, and purified the air of sighs. The Last Man He prescribed that the king of gods and men should keep his ambrosial tongue in the side of his cheek for half an hour three times a day. Masques & Phases "And what is the serious side of life, Nitschkan?" asked José, sipping delicately his glass of wine as if to taste to the full its ambrosial flavors, like the epicure he was. The Black Pearl The mild, early summer air that floated through the open windows into the gloomy, oak-ceiled schoolroom, was ambrosial with the breathings of flowers. The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe Each contended that she was the "fairest," and therefore should have the "fruit of pure Hesperian gold That smelt ambrosially." The Story of Troy But no mortal hands could have saved the town, Or averted the fatal hour: And from glory's fair ambrosial crown Death last that brightest flower. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 The men of harmony were all acquiescence—every instrument was tuned and toned, and, striking up one of their most ambrosial airs, the whole band followed the Count to the lady's apartment. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals All through the ambrosial night three cows, in the meadow under your windows, have been lamenting the loss of their calves. Lost Leaders How easy it would be to escape into this lovely night—to walk through this ambrosial air to the house-worshipful in which she doubtless lay, like a closed lily-flower, clasped in sleep. The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe Thus the blest gods the genial day prolong, In feasts ambrosial, and celestial song. The Story of Troy So saying, she turn'd the coursers; them the Hours505 Released, and to ambrosial mangers bound, Then thrust their chariot to the luminous wall. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper Swift says 'no wise man ever married;' but, for a fool, I think it the most ambrosial of all possible future states. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals The King, who a short time before had been observed to nod, not shaking his "ambrosial locks" in Jove-like approval, but somnolently, started up, exclaiming, "What! what! what's that?"—and the Queen—took snuff. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 I say anticipation—for my creed is, that the actual joys of Paradise exist no where, but within the celestial circle of your ambrosial arms. The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two Caviare came from it, and a small ambrosial cheese; dried figs and guava jelly; olives, cherries in brandy, wonderful filberts glazed with sugar; biscuits and all manner of queer Russian sweets. Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches Go then—instil nectar into his breast, And sweets ambrosial, that he hunger not. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper How much better these distinct statements are than a tissue of generalities about flowery wreaths, and fragrant zephyrs, and genial rays, and fresh verdure, and vernal airs, and ambrosial dews! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Ah, those afternoons, those dinners, those ambrosial nights! Grey Roses The latter ate nothing, which grieved Portlaw beyond measure, for the salad was ambrosial and the capon was truly Louis XI. The Firing Line Adored by panegyrists and bards, the king mounted upon that car like Soma riding upon his own ambrosial vehicle. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Hence the expression, ambrosial locks.The original says, "the ox-eyed goddess," which furnishes Coleridge with one of the hints on which he proceeds in historically identifying the Argive Juno with Io and Isis, &c. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper Knells now the dewdrop to its fall, The sad wind sleeps no more to rove; Rest, for my arms ambrosial Ache for thy love! Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance The inspired train enjoyed the highest honours; they held commerce with the gods; they partook of the ambrosial feast: they were at once the messengers and interpreters of the supreme command. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements The pudding is delicious; the custards are something better than manna—the mince pies a conglomeration of ambrosial sweets. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 25, 1841 Long muscadines, Like Jove's locks curled round foreheads of great pines, Breathe out ambrosial passion from their vines. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 He, to be sure, professed to take his idea from the famous passage of the Iliad where Jove shakes his ambrosial curls and bends his awful brows; and, nodding, shakes heaven and earth. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology I, a carefully trained gastronomist, adored it, but a Puckish digestion forbade my consuming one single shred of the ambrosial preparation. Jaffery We live here on ambrosial distillations from the rocks and muskalunge from the lake. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 When his first Years in mighty Order ran, And cradled Infancy bespoke the Man, Around his Lips the Waxen Artists hung, And drop'd ambrosial Dew upon his Tongue. Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) He would drink it in as if it were an ambrosial nectar in—and, moreover, he would also enjoy a cigarette. Truxton King A Story of Graustark McFee might be let off the job by reason of his ambrosial letters. Mince Pie Falloden stood on the hearth, looking down on the huddled figure in the chair; himself broad and tall and curly-haired, like the divine Odysseus, when Athene had breathed ambrosial youth upon him. Lady Connie There was much more of the same sort of high-toned epistolary rhetoric, written and sent by a dear hand, whose fanciful pen seemed touched by the ambrosial tints of Autumn. In the Footprints of the Padres I often found, on the south side of the tree, a few that had been overlooked which were fully ripe, beautifully mottled, full of sunshine, and perfect in melting texture and ambrosial flavour. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor Earth-gods--an endless life, ambrosial, Find they alone in song enchanting. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Perhaps in heaven, but certainly not until then, shall I ever taste anything so ambrosial as that fried chicken and coffee ice-cream! Hillsboro People Go if thou wilt, ambrosial flower, Go match thee with thy seeming peers; I will wait Heaven's perfect hour Through the innumerable years. Poems Household Edition When she marries the gilded youth with the ambrosial whiskers, their honeymooning is like playing at being married, their heartless billings and cooings are enchanting to see. Social Pictorial Satire The men of harmony were all acquiescence—every instrument was tuned and toned, and, striking up one of their most ambrosial airs, the whole band followed the count to the lady's apartment. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 474, Supplementary Number To have a day with him on the moors, or an ambrosial night, would be a possession forever. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 Love, in rural scenes of yore, They say, his goddess-mother bore; Received on Earth's sustaining breast, Th' ambrosial infant sunk to rest; And him the wild-flowers, o'er his head Bending, with sweetest kisses fed. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 If Pansy had only known what divine dulness, what ambrosial stupidity, often reclines on those Olympian heights called society! The Mettle of the Pasture They must take the consequences, and leave the ambrosial scents of the wood behind them. Fated to Be Free Let a similar compliment be presented to the "painted populace that dwell in fields and lead ambrosial lives." Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden The sun was beginning to set, and the rain of golden sunlight fell over them through the green ambrosial foliage of the tree whose pale blossoms were still murmurous with bees. Eric Drinking various kinds of charming and delicious and ambrosial wines, and sporting at thy pleasure in the enjoyment of diverse objects of delight, do thou, O blessed lady, attain auspicious prosperity. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Virata Parva Soon night hid horses, children, all In sleep deep and ambrosial. Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I. Fruit inviting, luscious, such As seems to paralyze the touch, As ambrosial nectar sweet, Ripe and fit for Gods to eat. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 551, June 9, 1832 In the English Bards and Scotch Reviewers the labors of Maurice are compared to those of Sisyphus So up thy hill, ambrosial Richmond, heaves Dull Maurice, all his granite weight of leaves. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden He would much rather partake of Ma'am Birch's fried eels and coffee, especially if Laura Birch should, peradventure, be the Hebe of such an ambrosial entertainment. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 No mortal has ever enjoyed the perfect flavor of any fruit, and only the god-like among men begin to taste its ambrosial qualities. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 What is he to Spenser, over whose immortal, ever-amiable verse beauty hovers and trembles, and who has shed the purple light of Fancy, from his ambrosial wings, over all nature? The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits Already he bowed his broad shoulders, his head of ambrosial locks, as if ready to receive the leather yoke of the sandwich board. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale His thin-wrought plume, his downy breast, Th' ambrosial gold that swells his thighs. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden The moment he caught that ambrosial invitation in the air my woodman spit fiercely on the ground, and taking a plug of wool from his pouch stuffed his nostrils up. Gulliver of Mars He beamed on her from the drawing-room door—magnificent, with ambrosial whiskers, like a god. Vanity Fair The air was full of ambrosial sweets, resembling those proceeding from an orange grove; a place which though I had never seen at that time, I since have. The Romany Rye A dim desire, of pleasant places, And lush fields in the summer sun, And logs aflame, and walls, and faces, — And wine, and old ambrosial talk, A golden ball in fountains dancing, And unforgotten hands. Young Adventure, a Book of Poems So saying, an odour of ambrosial dew She sheds around, and all his frame therewith Steeps throughly; forth from his trim-combed locks Breathed effluence sweet, and a lithe vigour leapt Into his limbs. The Georgics And widely spread ambrosial scents around: In length of train descends her sweeping gown; And, by her graceful walk, the Queen of Love is known. The Aeneid English George replied, showing his white teeth, and giving his ambrosial whiskers a twirl. Vanity Fair The ambrosial and essential part of the fruit is lost with the bloom which is rubbed off in the market cart, and they become mere provender. Walden As Bernard came in, this gentleman turned and exhibited the ambrosial beard, the symmetrical shape, the monocular appendage, of Captain Lovelock. Confidence If," she said, when her husband had told her, "he feeds on such ambrosial nuts, this monkey's heart must be ambrosia itself. The Book of Delight and Other Papers He thought, with a jerking pulse, of Oriental similes; she was a lotus-woman, a green slip of willow, an ambrosial moon, a mustard flower. Java Head It had been easy to work themselves up to a sense of how hot and deserted the city was getting, of how cool and ambrosial were the charms of Marietta. The Beautiful and Damned This is the end of ambrosial nights, the feast of reason, the flow of soul, wit drowned in whisky, satire stimulated by brandy and soda. The Golden Calf Forty years! have they bound those brows with no garland? shed in the lamp no drop of ambrosial oil? Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. And did he not himself believe, as he stood there, on his high heels, under his ambrosial periwig, that there was something in him more than man--something above Fate? Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 Affection's charm no longer gilds The idol of the shrine; But cold Oblivion seeks to fill Regret's ambrosial wine. East and West Poems Let Bacchus, Jove's ambrosial boy, Distil the grape in drops of joy, And while he smiles at every tear, Let warm-eyed Venus, dancing near, With spirits of the genial bed, The dewy herbage deftly tread. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes The atmosphere was cool and fresh at this altitude, the odour of the pines ambrosial. The Golden Calf For me the ambrosial fingers Of Graces never wove the laurel crown, But the Fates shadowed, from my youngest days, My brow with passion-flowers, and I have lived Unknown to my dear land. Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions Some are very, very small; others larger; all seem to be growing visibly, for their lovely nurses are feeding them with something ambrosial. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount? The Canadian Elocutionist Thro' isles of light where heroes tread And flowers ethereal blow, Thy god-like Spirit now is led, Thy lip with life ambrosial fed Forgets all taste of woe. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes As she turned to go, her neck shone with a rosy refulgence, ambrosial fragrance breathed from her, her robe flowed down about her feet and revealed the goddess. National Epics Or welcomes Jupiter, Father, as guest—me, to ambrosial halls? Erotica Romana "I know of a number of things," says the bonnet, nodding with ambrosial curls. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family At four I went to the man's house, and woke him out of ambrosial slumbers. Old Calabria Did ever lip's ambrosial air Such fragrance o'er thy altars shed? The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Every night this balsamic breath invades the town, filling its streets with ambrosial suggestions. Alone O lady, arm'd with equal power, If e'er within celestial bower, With messmate gods reclined, My muse ambrosially hath dined, Lend me the favour of a smile On this her playful toil. Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes The foundry or machine shop was closed, and under the intelligent care of Miss Elizabeth Galbraith, Mount Lilac continues to produce each summer ambrosial fruit and exquisite flowers. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present It was doubly beautiful when the long line of the aqueduct was lit up by the moon, and the orange trees became mounds of ambrosial darkness. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain Eyes blue as the azure shells; hair flashing out golden gleams, like that of Pyrrha, when she braided hers so featly for the coming of some ambrosial boy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 I only know that when at last we emerged from our ambrosial shelter the muscles of my stomach had grown sore from the strain of laughter, and Arcturus was twinkling overhead. Alone His azure eyebrows and ambrosial hair were full of fate. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 Out of this she takes a bowl of chicken broth, a jar of ambrosial jelly, a cake of delectable honey and a bottle of celestial raspberry shrub. Adventures in Friendship Fletcher's ambrosial curls would have been scorched off his head. Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories She spoke, And as she turned, her round and rosy neck, Her flowing train, and long ambrosial hair, Breathing rich odours, I enamoured view. English Poets of the Eighteenth Century Front her ambrosial rest the fading Splendour sprung. Adonais I generally accompanied my father, and saw placid Luther's cows, placid as himself, with their broad, wet noses, amiable dark eyes, questionable horns, and ambrosial breath. Hawthorne and His Circle Well, so when I got back, and had given you the beans, I went to sleep, and Through the ambrosial night a dream divine— ah, divine indeed!— Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 He spake, and awful bends his sable brow, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god. General History for Colleges and High Schools Olympian hymns receive the escaping soul, And smiling Hebe, from the ambrosial stream, Fills for a god the bowl! The Poems of Schiller — Third period Maidens, haste, Scatter ambrosial fragrance through the hall, Strew roses and narcissus flowers around, Forgetting not the gold-embroidered pillow. The Poems of Schiller — First period She was loading with oranges and green bananas up to the last moment,--those tasteless bananas which, out of the tropics, misrepresent this most delicious and ambrosial fruit. The Hawaiian Archipelago My harvests ripening by Tartarian fires Shall feed the dead with Heaven’s ambrosial food. Proserpine and Midas To the right a celestial bottle, stretching from the horizon to the zenith, appears, is uncorked, and scatters the worlds with the foam of what ambrosial liquor may have been within. Letters from America Never had green corn, roasted in its husks on the coals, tasted so delicious, and never before were peaches and cream so ambrosial. Nature's Serial Story A phrase out of some translation of the Iliad came to his head: "Ambrosial night, Night ambrosial unending." Three Soldiers This gentleman had long deceived his friends with his ambrosial locks, but Jack's quick eye had discovered the cheat, and he seized a favorable moment to make a grab for it. Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers I felt quite annoyed when I looked at the blue sky after breakfast and took deep breaths of ambrosial air, and thought how I had wasted my time. Without Prejudice There, weeping, on her father's knees she sat, While quiver'd round her form th' ambrosial robe. The Iliad The Hours unloosed them, panting as they stood, And heap'd their mangers with ambrosial food. The Iliad By extending his feet slightly through the opening by which he had entered, he found the seat really comfortable; and the coarse fare was ambrosial to his ravenous appetite. His Sombre Rivals The ambrosial combination of strawberries and cream was first named by Sir Philip Sidney. Success with Small Fruits My taper man of lights listened with perseverant and praiseworthy patience, though, as I was afterwards told, on complaining of certain gales that were not altogether ambrosial, it was a melting day with him. Biographia Literaria He said, and nodded with his shadowy brows; Wav'd on th' immortal head th' ambrosial locks, And all Olympus trembled at his nod. The Iliad Yet so cunningly had she warmed it, so deftly had she flavored it, so daintily had she garnished it that it seemed food ambrosial. Little Miss By-The-Day In the ambrosial freshness of the morning, a long gallop upon his pet charger, "Garibaldi," restored the equilibrium of the young officer's nerves. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Nature, too, in a kindly mood, seems to have scattered the seeds of this fruit along the roadside, thus fringing the highway in dusty, hot July with ambrosial food. Success with Small Fruits When my beloved companion awoke me, he gave me ambrosial water to drink, of most excellent flavor and color. The Visions of the Sleeping Bard Piercing th' ambrosial veil, the Graces' work, The sharp spear graz'd her palm below the wrist. The Iliad When cooked, and served on toast with drawn butter sauce, it is quite ambrosial. The Home Acre It was just as she was eating her first ambrosial mouthful that the door opened and a fur-capped head was thrust in. Understood Betsy He consumed his coffee and roll in the manner of ordinary mortals, not once flourishing his dainty hand or shaking his ambrosial hair. The Emancipated Quaffing nectar at mess with gods golden dishes, all ambrosial. Ulysses Woe worth these barren hearts of ours, Where Thou hast set celestial flowers, And watered with more balmy showers Than e'er distilled In Eden, on th' ambrosial bowers - Yet nought we yield. The Christian Year At rare intervals we rise above the necessity of virtue into an unchangeable morning light, in which we have only to live right on and breathe the ambrosial air. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers But, O heavens! instead of banqueting on the ambrosial flavour, that her delicacy of complexion promised, I was almost suffocated with the steams of Geneva! The Adventures of Roderick Random While thus she spake, She touched his eyelashes with libant lip, And breathed ambrosial odours, o'er his cheek Celestial warmth suffusing: grief dispersed, And strength and pleasure beamed upon his brow. Gebir Well did their lordships of the upper-house know that voice, when after a long sleepy debate it aroused them from ambrosial slumbers, with biting sarcasm, and most disagreeably told truths. Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn A splendid Jupiter, with hair well set up off the fine brow, ambrosial beard, silver thunderbolts in one hand, and a well-worn ferule in the other. Jo's Boys For a while it was the sweetest ride that ever I rode, with my Bianca nestling against my breast, and responding faintly to all the foolishness that poured from me in that ambrosial hour. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza He smiled, and opening out his milk-white palm Disclosed a fruit of pure Hesperian gold, That smelt ambrosially, and while I looked And listened, the full-flowing river of speech Came down upon my heart. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable But ah, she knew not whom that roseate face Cooled with its breath ambrosial; for she stood High on the bank, and often swept and broke His chaplets mingled with her loosened hair. Gebir Earth lies in the shadow still; Low black bushes, trees, and lawn Night's ambrosial dews absorb; Through the foliage creeps a thrill, Whispering of yon spectral dawn And the hidden climbing orb. The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 The beautiful ambrosial wood itself, of heavy trees and thick tinder-brush, was a mat of tangled trunks, above which stood splintered stubs. The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land Now that palled, and I looked around New York in the hope of finding cigars which would seem to most people vile, but which, I am sure, would be ambrosial to me. Mark Twain's Speeches He spoke and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls and gives the nod, The stamp of fate and sanction of the god. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable In those far lands I reveled in the ambrosial food that fructifies the soul, the mind, the heart. Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories High wrapp'd in wonder of the future deed, with joy impetuous to the port I speed: The wants of nature with repast suffice, Till night with grateful shade involved the skies, And shed ambrosial dews. The Odyssey Kronion spake, and bowed his dark brow, and the ambrosial locks waved from the king's immortal head; and he made great Olympus quake. The Iliad She leaned over me; her ambrosial breath played upon my face: I could hear the beating of her heart! Cleopatra And did he not himself believe, as he stood there, on his high heels, under his ambrosial periwig, that there was something in him more than man—something above Fate? The Paris Sketch Book There, group upon group, they circled in the starry silence multiform in the unimaginable beauty of a being fed by ambrosial dews and serenest light. Zanoni I stay reluctant seven continued years, And water her ambrosial couch with tears, The eighth she voluntary moves to part, Or urged by Jove, or her own changeful heart. The Odyssey With speed he came to the Achaians' fleet ships, and went to Agamemnon son of Atreus, and found him sleeping in his hut, and ambrosial slumber poured over him. The Iliad Dr. Grumball now coughed, 'shook his ambrosial curls,' and addressed the assembly. Redgauntlet As I stood wiping quietly I could smell the ambrosial odours from the kitchen. The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment A remarkable and famous contemporary singer was known to his fellow-undergraduates only by this circumstance, that his melodious voice was heard declaiming anapaests all through the ambrosial night. Oxford He said: obsequious, with redoubled pace, She to the fount conveys the exhausted vase: The bath renew'd, she ends the pleasing toil With plenteous unction of ambrosial oil. The Odyssey A dream from heaven came to me in my sleep through the ambrosial night, and chiefly to goodly Nestor was very like in shape and bulk and stature. The Iliad Diana had now reached Jove's bronze-floored mansion on Olympus, and sat herself down with many tears on the knees of her father, while her ambrosial raiment was quivering all about her. The Iliad The tall plumes on her ambrosial head bowed down beneath the storm. The Bedford-Row Conspiracy And with this the worthy gentleman began rubbing delicately a little of the Eglantinia into those ambrosial locks, which he loved with all the love of a man and an artist. Men's Wives She ceased, ambrosial slumbers seal his eyes; Her care dissolves in visionary joys The goddess, pleased, regains her natal skies. The Odyssey Therewith she anointed her fair body, and combed her hair, and with her hands plaited her shining tresses, fair and ambrosial, flowing from her immortal head. The Iliad With this she anointed her delicate skin, and then she plaited the fair ambrosial locks that flowed in a stream of golden tresses from her immortal head. The Iliad Lucy came forward, bending down her ambrosial curls, and blushing, as a modest young woman should: for, in truth, the scrape was very awkward. The Bedford-Row Conspiracy It seems to me an ambrosial food, and yet I have seen Louis turn aside, unable to bear the smell. Letters of Two Brides They placed images of the Muses and of the modest Graces in their gardens, and they rendered her former honours to the Goddess with ambrosial lips, the joy of men and gods. Penguin Island There wind-footed fleet Iris loosed the horses from the chariot and stabled them, and set ambrosial forage before them; but fair Aphrodite fell upon Dione's knees that was her mother. The Iliad She turned her steeds; the Hours presently unyoked them, made them fast to their ambrosial mangers, and leaned the chariot against the end wall of the courtyard. The Iliad The captain, in reply, described his niece's anxiety as something—something—something, in short, only to be indicated by shaking his ambrosial curls and waving his jaunty cane. Man and Wife And Flaherty began to bring to her table course after course of ambrosial food that the gods might have pronounced excellent. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million All the white ambrosial beauty Is a lustrous Laurel Tree! Poems — Volume 1 Keats had lifted up his hymeneal curls from out the poppy-seeded wine, With ambrosial mouth had kissed my forehead, clasped the hand of noble love in mine. Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde As he spoke the son of Saturn bowed his dark brows, and the ambrosial locks swayed on his immortal head, till vast Olympus reeled. The Iliad Park, race and play, in his capacious plan, Combined with Coke to form the finished man, Until the wig's ambrosial influence shed Its last full glories on the lawyer's head. Life of John Sterling Keats had lifted up his hymeneal curls from outthe poppy-seeded wine,With ambrosial mouth had kissed my forehead,clasped the hand of noble love in mine. Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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