| 单词 | scentless |
| 例句 | I peer out through the glass of the train window, which is streaked with rain and dust, and there is the landscape of my early childhood, smudged and scentless and untouchable and moving backward. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She shouldn’t emerge until dawn, especially since I spiked her tea with kheb leaf—a scentless, tasteless herb Pop used to help patients rest. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Vegetable oil typically refers to soybean oil: flavorless, scentless, colorless, and with a high smoke point — the temperature at which oil starts to burn and emit smoke — that's ideal for high-heat cooking. What are the best substitutes for vegetable oil? 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z “Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, / Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing,” Sara Teasdale wrote in “September Midnight.” Column: September is the cruelest month — at least in L.A. 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z They’re gorgeous, but sometimes as scentless as a picture of a flower. L.A. has no seasons, you say? Wrong. Here's how to mark them 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z After further processing, the pigment was scentless and felt like powdered sugar. How Do You Make a Less Toxic Blue Dye? Start With Red Beets 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z The invisible, colourless, scentless, soundless abyss that our generation has chosen to ignore. Malena Ernman on daughter Greta Thunberg: ‘She was slowly disappearing into some kind of darkness’ 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z They’re very effective at grabbing a stray flavor molecule and attaching a stodgy, scentless, nonvolatile sugar molecule to it as an anchor. A vintner’s horror movie nightmare: The smoke is coming from inside the grapes 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z But the idea of scentless, let alone perfumed flatulence raises compelling questions. Meet the man making chocolate farts 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z The air was utterly pure and scentless; the scent was not fir-scent, and the scattered, windy trees gave no smell. Mariquita A Novel 2012-04-24T02:00:19.737Z Flowers in somewhat distant whorls, scentless, nearly 2´ long, deep red outside, yellowish within or rarely throughout; leaves oblong, smooth, the lower petioled, the uppermost pairs connate.—Copses, The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z When that cheering beam is withdrawn, how colourless and scentless, how devoid of beauty, do their drooping blossoms become! Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z This assembly, an equally scentless glycoside, stays dissolved inside the grape, waiting to be cleaved apart by a different enzyme and unleashed to announce ripeness or some other message. A vintner’s horror movie nightmare: The smoke is coming from inside the grapes 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Yet it pressed a sting Into the day which had been so glad; The red rose turned to a scentless thing: The bird-song ceased with discordant ring; And a heart was heavy and sad. The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z In the daytime the Yucca's blossoms hang in scentless, greenish white bells, but at night these bells lift up their heads and expand with great stars of light and odor—a glorious plant. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Fortunately the sun had shone forth before the church bells summoned the worshippers to kneel in front of the marble altars, banked high with scentless white flowers. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z Fame is the scentless sunflower, With gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose With sweets in every fold. A Little Book of Old Time Verse Old Fashioned Flowers 2012-02-13T03:00:15.823Z Then, when the grapes ferment into wine, these scentless phenol glycosides get re-transformed into their normal forms, which smell smoky once again. A vintner’s horror movie nightmare: The smoke is coming from inside the grapes 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z The flower is insignificant, and nearly scentless; the pointal changes to a cone-shaped fruit of a dead green colour, divided into oblong compartments, each one cellular, and furnished with a flat glossy seed. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z The favorite flowers of my childhood were three noble creatures, Hollyhocks, Canterbury Bells, and Foxgloves, all three were scentless. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Thus kindly I'll scatter Thy leaves o'er the bed, Where thy mates of the garden Lie scentless and dead. Martha or, The Fair at Richmond 2012-01-19T03:00:23.947Z For him the perfect woman is the most unhuman; he admires the woolless sheep and the scentless flower. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects, Ceaseless, insistent. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z It blooms in May or June, and its purple flowers, with rosy linings, are relatively small and almost scentless. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z All its vigorous and hardy descendants are scentless save the Gem of the Prairies. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Some have a fine aroma, while others have an unpleasant flavor or are scentless. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z Thankfulness should mingle with all our thoughts and feelings, like the fragrance of some perfume penetrating through the common scentless air. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Here the camellia trees grew to the height of twenty feet, bearing their crimson and white, scentless flowers. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z Here in a quiet and dusty room they lie, Faded as crumbled stone or shifting sand, Forlorn as ashes, shrivelled, scentless, dry— Meadows and gardens running through my hand. Poems 2011-08-16T02:00:47.467Z "That scentless bloom is not the rose of friendship, fair Prince," said the youth, taking the flower from Ulric's hand. The Village of Youth and Other Fairy Tales 2011-08-06T02:00:04.530Z No perfume drops from the odor-laden evergreens, only scentless air reaches your nostrils. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z She waited for that time, outwardly indifferent, just as a branch studded with the brown scentless swellings of mid-winter waits for the spring that shall see them break into sweetest buds. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z We had huge bunches of roses of all shades, vying in beauty with the very finest of their species to be found anywhere, but almost entirely scentless. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z Yet poetry, like music, would be colourless, scentless, if it sounded no dissonances. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z "Is that the reason why the flowers are all white and scentless here?" The Village of Youth and Other Fairy Tales 2011-08-06T02:00:04.530Z One point may be granted; in Italy and elsewhere the common people do not highly or permanently value scentless flowers. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Along the road the profuse golden-rod waves its bright spray, and the cool, scentless asters gleam like pallid stars. From the Easy Chair, series 3 2011-05-14T02:00:12.237Z Death laughs, breathing close and relentless In the nostrils and eyelids of lust, With a pinch in his fingers of scentless And delicate dust. Poems & Ballads (First Series) 2011-02-28T03:00:30.587Z How cold these scentless trees, in their immeasurable monotony! Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:10.707Z There it lay at his feet; but it had again become as white and as scentless as all the other flowers in the garden. The Village of Youth and Other Fairy Tales 2011-08-06T02:00:04.530Z There are other seasons than summer, and there are times when the flower is scentless, the tree no longer green. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z The wind from winter forests, The scent of scentless flowers, The breath of brides' adorning, The smell of snare and warning, The smell of Sunday morning, God gave to us for ours. Wine, Water, and Song 2011-01-31T03:00:17.240Z There is still much popular belief that our trees are shadeless, our rivers are waterless, our flowers are scentless, our birds are songless. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z It is not safe, therefore, to declare a plant scentless unless it has been tested repeatedly at different times. Orchids There was something tropical about her, she always suggested the scarlet tanager, the jeweled dragon-fly, the pomegranate flower, or the scentless splendor of our wild marshmallow. Life on the Stage A scentless air, at summer temperature, sanitary people want; a hot, close atmosphere is better suited to our view. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. "Good," he said, "here is my supper;" but he found they were scentless. Round the World in Eighty Days I know that the flowers called scentless have their hours when the spirit of perfume visits them and lends them, for a brief season, the charm without which a flower is only half a flower. The Land of Long Ago And to each rose-tree's stem that bends With silver snow-combs, glued with frost, It seems each summer rosebud sends Its airy, scentless ghost. Blooms of the Berry The girls strolled in the woods, picked the showy, scentless flowers, which had replaced the small, fragrant blossoms of springtime, and took little excursions on the river, two to a canoe. Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted She was fastening into her girdle a hueless and scentless nosegay, when Henry Sympson called to her as he came limping from the house. Shirley Hastily, in search of scentless paper, the fat woman made off. The Paliser case A woman without that religion would be like a scentless blossom to me.” The Bondwoman He had killed what seemed to be a large, heavy rabbit, which, though evidently possessed of a healthy appetite, was almost scentless, and differed in taste from any he had hitherto captured. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain Violets of course would be favorites if our native species were not with one exception scentless. How Girls Can Help Their Country She knew she would die like an early, colourless, scentless flower that the end of the winter puts forth mercilessly. The Rainbow The hardy blossoms, cold and scentless, but so unmistakably alive, had given him a deep message of hope, a thrill of expectation. Beside Still Waters Meantime, she raves about the inn, declaring that he doesn't love her, whereupon he takes the flower she once threw him, now dead and scentless, from his pocket, and shows-87- it to her. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces "For he is hideous as the night: Yet when has ever chose A nightingale for its delight A hueless, scentless rose?" Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul The cinnamon bush is a species of laurel, and bears a white, scentless flower, which is succeeded by a small, oblong berry, scarcely as large as a pea. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months She exclaimed in a mockery of rapture over a bowl of scentless wild violets which Phil had gathered. Otherwise Phyllis Its favourite haunt is among the red and scentless flowers of the buck-eye, or the large trumpet-shaped blossoms of the bignonia. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West The cinnamon bush, which is a native here, is a species of laurel, and bears a white, scentless flower, scarcely as large as a pea. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Roses were abundant, white and scentless, or small, pink, and spicy, and the ground was carpeted with yellow and blue flowers. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Deep purple scentless violets clustered in sheltered nooks, where granite, ivy-covered boulders rose grimly along the slopes and little ravines of the cliffs. Where Deep Seas Moan They were neither taken from other gardens and stuck in rootless, as children do, much less were they of the nature of gumflowers, made with hands, wretched and dry and scentless. Spare Hours With delicate, mad hands, behind his sordid bars, Surely he hath his posies, which they tear and twine; Those scentless wisps of straw that, miserable, line His strait, caged universe, whereat the dull world stares. Modern British Poetry The hands should be well washed and dried, tepid water, scentless soap, and a smooth towel being used. The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men They are not curious in colors, and do not know which flowers are fragrant and which are scentless. Last Words A Final Collection of Stories Maybe, a hundred years from now, some young girl rummaging through the attic may find my beautiful dress all yellowed with time, and the rose leaves dried and scentless. Mary Ware's Promised Land The pansies looked erect And scentless, wrapped in thought: by them, I stopped. Life Immovable First Part He gathered several specimens without allowing any part to touch his skin, but the "scentless effluvium" was so powerful as to cause unpleasant effects for the rest of the day. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children But if a flower's soul speaks through odor, what of scentless blossoms? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy A scentless flower, a leafless tree; My song with love,—my love with pride, Are full,—my love, are full of thee. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century When he stretched out his hand to gather the rose that blossomed in his path, a golden flower scentless and stiff was all he grasped. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida Thus you are scentless, roses of Bengal; All others' perfume is bright light in you. Life Immovable First Part She was no longer a beautiful rose; no, nor even a reminiscence of one,—simply a colorless, scentless, ill-shapen mass. The Holy Cross and Other Tales But the flowers were scentless, and, alas! she could not pluck them, for those gardens were all under water; they grew at the bottom of the sea! The Red Eric E'en the oak, his sole shelter, rude winter decays, And the wild flowers he sung are laid scentless and pale. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century “Yes, and as scentless,” replied the Major; “they are all very brilliant in appearance; but one modest English violet is, to my fancy, worth them all.” The Mission; or Scenes in Africa A scentless substance lying in a drawer, with a bit of musk, will become perfumed by contact, and will bring the fragrance wherever it is carried. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. My life, with all its advantages, and what people call accomplishments, has been as unreal, as lifeless, as scentless as those wax flowers. True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best The flowers are scentless, black, and sere, The perfume long has passed away; The sea whose tides are year by year Is set between us, chill and gray. In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV Daudet was no orchid, beautiful and scentless; his writings have always the full flavor of the southern soil. The Nabob, Volume 1 The other, scentless—helpless for ministry to the body; infinitely dear as the bringer of light, ruby, white and gold; the three colours of the Day, with no hue of shade in it. Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers This is the production of a cynips; and, from its vivid tints of crimson and green, might well pass at a short distance for a flower, brilliant, but scentless. Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Free me from the delusions which succeed each other like scentless roses, that are ever blooming. The Young Duke Palm-oil burns scentless as moonlight; and when motion, not rest, in a place is signified, we accompany ourselves with a wax candle, or taper from time immemorial green. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 All these were scentless; but one other flower, much rarer, made fragrance enough for all. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 "God forbid!" said Karl; "what I have is perfectly scentless glue—a new invention." Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag She had, at any rate, not followed a scentless quarry. Phantom Wires A Novel They are not curious in colours, and do not know which flowers are fragrant and which are scentless. Mary's Meadow And Other Tales of Fields and Flowers The Mugwort, as an allied Wormwood of the same genus, is taller and more slender than the Absinthium, and is distinguished by being scentless, its leaves being green above, and white below. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure The reaper with his sickle keen Aimed at its crest of gold and green With spiteful stroke relentless, And would have rooted from the ground The "Solidago"—blossom-crowned, But gaudy, rank, and scentless. Poems Vol. IV She was magnificently dressed, and the pale, scentless rose upon her breast was almost hidden by diamonds. Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside There are some thin, dwarfed, almost scentless flowers of love and friendship, of which we can discern the faint fragrance only when we are on our knees. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron And this was the flower he had cherished with such pride, now scentless of spirituality and dead at the roots! The Mayor of Warwick Madame Marie's garments were scentless as outdoor air, and the freshness of outdoor air seemed to belong to them. The Lady of Fort St. John In old age, the heart longs for fragrance, and dahlias and gillyflowers are scentless. The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales. These views are appropriately summed up through the medium of the pure and scentless taste of the Athenæum. Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 How was that sweetness and purity ever extracted from the scentless soil? Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Only the wild American scentless ones had come in little Ellen's way so far. The Portion of Labor The pretty scentless blossoms were but just caught, when a rattling of wheels was heard on the stony lane which led from the high-road to the cottage. A Canadian Heroine, Volume 1 A Novel Hanson was not imaginative, but as he watched her he seemed to be gazing at some gorgeous cactus blossom opening its scentless petals to the burning sun. The Black Pearl Perfumery is used even in the "scentless" powders and soaps. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries The shrubs were well grown and the grass was well kept, but there was no show of the gorgeous scentless flowers which make the gardens of the wealthy so gay and splendid in summer. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax Nor any evening sees beneath her feet The daisy rosier flush, the maidenhair And scentless crocus borrow From rose and hyacinth their savour sweet. A Handbook for Latin Clubs The flowers of the heart's ease are scentless, but the plant evidently contains a principle which in other species of the Viola, is eliminated as the "sweet that smells" so beautifully alluded to by Shakspeare. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants How unostentatious their kindness was: the delicate, scentless air that hung about them: the fresh flowers always near. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 I gathered you, sweet little rosebud, With a dew crown encircling your head; Now, out of the window I toss you, Shriveled, and scentless, and dead. Debris Selections from Poems Then we have the snow-white, but scentless Cherokee rose, with its lovely, shining leaves. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Sally Ruth, come to think of it, an Old Maid's a miserable, stiff, scentless sort of a flower. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man The odour of the ointment not only fills the house, but enriches the scentless outside air. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII Fortunately, perhaps, it is scentless, and so despised. Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers Guardian: Say out the translation. 2nd Prince: Beneath a chilly blast the rose, loses its sweet, and scentless blows; If you would have earth keep its charm, stop in the sunshine and keep warm. Three Wonder Plays These were scentless and already past their prime; but by the gate at the south-east end of the house the white Banksian, throwing far wider shoots, saluted them with a scent as of violets belated. Hocken and Hunken Then for a while was the night scentless, silent, blank, empty. Flames "I am beastly tired of nosing about on a scentless trail." With Links of Steel But she stood motionless; radiant, and scentless: a dahlia on its stalk. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II So for a while we sat on the terrace, and a kind of scentless, spineless whitethorn wept sprays of flowers upon us. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 The dangerous place is the place where the vapours that poison are scentless as well as invisible. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) On the toilette-table was a vase full of camellias—those beautiful but scentless flowers which were emblematic of her brilliant but artificial life. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 The flowers open in the day-time, and are scentless; they last in perfection for two or three days, and may, therefore, be employed as cut flowers for vases, &c. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation "Yes, and as scentless," replied the Major; "they are all very brilliant in appearance; but one modest English violet is, to my fancy, worth them all." The Mission That would argue a lack of poetry in herself, and such a lady would be like a scentless rose. Paul Faber, Surgeon He felt that he would do well to mistrust it and he almost regretted having admitted, among the scentless plants, this orchid which evoked the most disagreeable memories. Against the Grain This is all I can find—all the scentless first-fruits of the baby year. Nancy The flowers are yellow, in clusters, and scentless. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden It was as invisible as the wind, as scentless as a star, as complete as birth or death. The Precipice She had been betrayed by love itself; and what cared she now for her future, her embittered, bloomless, scentless life, when he had deceived her --he, the only one whom she had loved? Queen Hortense A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era The garden, with its poor pale scentless autumn flowers, had a dreary look under the dull gray sky. Fenton's Quest The very breath of the pure, scentless winter air was to come back to her nostrils in after years. The Bent Twig But from her own garden she had chosen a scentless blossom of a kind which Red Perris had never seen before. Alcatraz Later in the year come the beautiful blue violets, which are, I am sorry to say, scentless. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 She made you think at once of nothing so much as heart's-ease,—a garden heart's-ease, that flower of many names; not of the frail, scentless, wild wood-violet,—she had been cultured to something larger. A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. The latter was the source of most of his sufferings; for, being so exceedingly sensitive, even the most scentless things made him sick. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 The cinnamon tree or bush is planted in rows; it attains at most a height of nine feet, and bears a white, scentless blossom. A Woman's Journey Round the World They were scentless; the climate which supplies the orange blossom with intense odors exhausts the fragrance of the rose. Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America The smell of the fresh clover was quite delightful, after the scentless air of the dry, sterile Despoblado. The Voyage of the Beagle The diabolical ease with which these murders could be effected, by means of these scentless and tasteless poisons, enticed the evil-minded. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 The rose of love made the blossom of friendship pale and scentless by contrast. Anne of the Island Alas! how grey and scentless is the bloom Of mortal life! A Lute of Jade : selections from the classical poets of China Cowslips and wild hyacinths were in flower upon its banks, and blue violets as scentless as our own. Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America A bunch of crysanthemums stood on the table, asters in vases on dresser and chiffonier—colourful and scentless. The Indian Lily and Other Stories First it is called honey-water, and is sweet and scentless; but easily ferments when transferred to the skins or earthen vases where it is kept. Life in Mexico I did not then know that the pensiveness of reverse is the best phase for some minds; nor did I reflect that some herbs, "though scentless when entire, yield fragrance when they're bruised." Villette The poor bit of cloth which has held some precious piece of solid perfume will retain fragrance for many a day afterwards, and will bless the scentless air by giving it forth. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts It is a scentless flower; but there is a purer summer pleasure in the sweet-brier than the dahlia, though one would have each in his garden. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis Thus kindly I scatter Thy leaves o'er the bed, Where thy mates of the garden Lie scentless and dead. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes There were no flowers in the room, and they were not needed, for the room itself was like some pale, scentless and old-fashioned bloom. The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing The fragrance was soon dissipated in the scentless air, but the deed smells sweet and blossoms for ever. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark "Someone once called me a flower, but he must have been thinking of some poor scentless thing—a daisy, perhaps." Fan : the story of a young girl's life Like all his love odes it is barren of deep feeling, for which reason, perhaps, they have been compared to scentless flowers. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius A ludicrous bafflement passed over her face as she repeatedly sniffed the odor of jasmine from a type of flower she well knew to be scentless. Autobiography of a Yogi But even as I bending looked, I saw The roses were not; and, instead, there lay Pale, feathered flakes and scentless Ashes upon your hair! Dreams and Days: Poems So cold prayers are no prayers, but are scentless, and unapt to rise. Expositions of Holy Scripture Flowers almost scentless, solitary, semi-double, and of a bright and showy crimson. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs Along the banks of the streams vegetation gets very luxurious, and among the thick undergrowth are found some lovely ferns, broad-leaved plants, and flowers of every hue, all alike nearly scentless. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter I smilingly took a large white scentless flower from a near-by vase. Autobiography of a Yogi Poetry is not a trifle, Lightly thought and lightly made; Not a fair and scentless flower, Gaily cultured for an hour, Then as gaily left to fade. Excellent Women There must be definite times of distinct prayer if the aroma of devotion is to be diffused through our else scentless days. Expositions of Holy Scripture And what a world of mystery, of feeling, of associations there was in that scentless and withered rose-bud! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 Bright beads and rich wampum belts are mine, Which by far these paltry stones outshine, Whilst heron plumes, fresh flowers and leaves, Are fairer than scentless buds like these.” The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon The Indian flora is too often slandered and misrepresented as being full of beautiful, but scentless, flowers. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan They show us, side by side, profaned temples re-consecrated, and holy sanctuaries never sullied; scentless flowers restored to fragrance, and garlands of purity from which not a blossom or even a leaf had ever fallen. The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation For there is the possibility of such thought blending with common motives, like a finer perfume in the scentless air, or some richer elixir in a cup. Expositions of Holy Scripture A rose will smell as sweet by its own name as by another, and you will find no scentless flowers here. Nature's Serial Story Among these there were broad violet patches—scentless violets, nothing to gather, but pleasant to see—colouring the earth. The Life of the Fields But as fragrant, modest flowers usually bloom in the garden with gaudy, scentless ones, so those inclined to be bizarre made an excellent foil for the refined and elegant, and thus had their uses. What Can She Do? Here and there among them are sadly tried bushes, bearing a beautiful yellow flower, like a large yellow wild rose, only scentless. Travels in West Africa If the world had been colourless and scentless before, it was now no better than a hideous heap of ashes. If I Were King Ah, delicate breezes of daybreak, so scentless, refreshing and free! Last Poems Nature at times, indeed, delights in contrasts, for here exists a land “where bright flowers are all scentless, and songless bright birds.” Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, It is an error to suppose that childhood is the happiest period of life, though philosophers tell us so, for a child's pleasures are like early spring flowers—pretty, but pale, and fleeting, and scentless. The Circassian Slave, or, the Sultan's favorite : a story of Constantinople and the Caucasus She smiled as her eye went from the scentless daisies, so pertly pretty, to her own posy full of perfume, and the half sad, half sweet associations that haunt these blue-eyed flowers. Work: a Story of Experience On the table were zinc ointment, vaseline, scentless eau de Cologne, Castile soap, and a powder-puff. The Grim Smile of the Five Towns There were sweet roses of every hue, from the pure Alba to the dark Damascus; and pinks, some of the most spicy odour, some almost scentless, but all so beautiful and so nicely trimmed. Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing She has been so long and so terribly punished for this unhappy passion, that I will give her the consolation of plucking a few scentless blossoms from the grave of her heart. Frederick the Great and His Family I shall prize, Beyond June's rose, the scentless flower of Rome. The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 The steam is emitted from several irregular fissures: it is scentless, soon blackens iron, and is of much too high temperature to be endured by the hand. Volcanic Islands And her face above it, chaste, serene, was like the scentless summer evening. The Island Pharisees In the bewildering, still, scentless beauty of that moment he almost lost memory of why he had come to the orchard. Five Tales Unsightly now and scentless, it was once a beautiful specimen of the florist's art. The Filigree Ball Being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair Two spirits abroad in the air, encountering each other and passing into one: the spirit of scentless spring left by melting snows and the spirit of scented summer born with the earliest buds. The Choir Invisible The early flowers already appeared: primroses, and frail, scentless violets grew along the hedgerows. An Iceland Fisherman Thus it is said the Prussian Isis has, for some persons, a sweet and very powerful perfume, while to others it is perfectly scentless. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 Roses are scentless, hopeless are the morns, Rest is but weakness, laughter crackling thorns, If thou, the Truth, do not make them the true: Thou art my life, O Christ, and nothing else will do. A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul But this strange bloom, by sun and wind unwooed, Seems to expand and blossom 'mid the snows, A lily sceptreless, a scentless rose, For dainty listlessness of maidenhood. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris In fact, carburetted hydrogen is not completely scentless, and the engineer, whose sense of smell was very keen, was astonished that it had not revealed the presence of the explosive gas. The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern There words are fixed and dead, a botanical collection of colourless, scentless, dried weeds, a hortus siccus of proper names, each individual symbol poorly tethered to some single object or idea. Style |
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