"Fragrant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mary Rabbit, and always used to sleep side by side. But after a few weeks they must have felt tired of their humdrum life; for one bright morning they ran away. I hope they are living happily together in the fragrant woods from which they ...
— The Nursery, July 1877, XXII. No. 1 - A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers • Various
... Combang Caracnassi, and Combang Tonquin, Percularia Glabro. These are small flowers, of the dog's-bane kind, very much resembling each other in shape and smell, highly fragrant, but very different from every product of ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 13 • Robert Kerr
... dear forsaken side, imagine over all our solemn joys, every dear transport, all our ravishing repeated blisses; then almost fainting, languishing, cry—Philander, oh, my charming little god! Then lay me down in the dear place you pressed, still warm and fragrant with the sweet remains that thou hast left behind thee on the pillow. Oh, my soul's joy! My dear, eternal pleasure! What softness hast thou added to my heart within a few hours! But oh, Philander—if (as I've oft been told) possession, ...
— Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister • Aphra Behn
... at table, and he hastily cancelled an order for Yarmouth bloater and asked instead for a less fragrant dish. ...
— Abe and Mawruss - Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter • Montague Glass
... entertainment to partake of some refreshment, my nerves were horrified by lighting on a number of boisterous individuals who were singing some species of harvest song, and simultaneously imbibing that cup which, if it cheers, also inebriates; and when, banished from their society by the fumes of the fragrant weed, I wended my way to the apartment which adjoined the one in which I had hoped to rest my weary limbs, I found an interesting assortment of the fairer sex, who were holding a separate confabulation apart from the revels ...
— How to Write Clearly - Rules and Exercises on English Composition • Edwin A. Abbott
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