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Naphthaline   Listen
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Naphthaline, Naphthalin  n.  (Chem.) See Naphthalene.






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"Naphthaline" Quotes from Famous Books



... can see it. It has a delicate grey body (suede, I think they call it) with a whipping of silver round the top, and a darker grey silk tag to fasten it. It is marked 5-3/4 inside, and has a delicious scent about it, to keep off moths, I suppose; naphthaline is better. It reminds me of a 'silver-sedge' tied on a ten hook. I startled the good landlady of the little inn (there is no village fortunately) when I arrived with the only porter of the tiny station laden ...
— Victorian Short Stories • Various

... be done, Julian did. He warned, he expostulated, he reminded of purer and happier—of pure and happy days. But he did not know the bitter fountain of despondency whence flowed those naphthaline streams of passion. At ...
— Julian Home • Dean Frederic W. Farrar



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