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...rose pink and grey, looking out at the Indian night. The sweet scent of jasmine and other exotic perfumes wafted towards her and looking up at the m... ... sweetmeats in banana leaves. Little oil-filled clay lamps lit the temple and scented joss sticks perfumed the air. Helen was alone in this pagan ch... ...hing villagers who garlanded her with so many flowers that she felt quite overcome by their heady perfume. The Nawab presented her with a superb hun... ...Shah Jehan. ‘On her wedding day, the women bathed her in scented rose water, oiled her body with perfumes and dressed her in her wedding clothes and... ...eaned towards him and Gavin was well aware that the soft curves of her bosom and the scent of the perfume she dabbed between her cleavage, would be ... ...rowroot and albumin water. THE CURSE OF KALI 323 She had sufficient supplies of castor oil and opium to relieve the griping pains of the disease ...

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...th delight the return of the four seasons and their changing colours, delicate perfumes, and wonderful plants. In many instances, Tasmania reminds ... ...elias and the vermeil gladioli, jasmine and lavender give away their enchanting perfume. Of course, the roses and the marigolds are splendid. Duri... ...flower of happiness. Do you know that its essence is the base of the greatest perfumes? In spring, we pick hawthorn blossoms and elder flowers to... ... And the cycle ends; summer is back with its bright colours and exhilarating perfumes. Mother Nature’s gifts How can we maintain our health ... ...look and see the beautiful things around you and breathe Mother Nature’s sweet perfumes. 6. Only choose the best specimens and process them as soo... ...mount and on regular basis, even though it does not have the narcotic effect of opium poppy, its cousin. Cowslip Cowslip is the Virgin Mary’s embl...

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...ops wheat, fruits, nuts, karakul pelts, wool, mutton; an illegal producer of opium poppy and cannabis for the international drug trade Major industrie... ...00% self-sufficient; most rice grown in deltaic land; an illegal producer of opium poppy and cannabis for the international drug trade Fishing: catch ... ...its, vegetables, coconuts, cinna- mon, yams; export crops essential oils for perfumes (mainly ylang-ylang), vanilla, copra, cloves Major industry: per... ...roduced, 1 1 kWh per capita (1986) Exports: $15 million (f.o.b., 1985 est.); perfume oils, vanilla, copra, cloves Imports: $25 million (f.o.b., 1985 e... ..., cotton, corn, beans, sugarcane, bananas, livestock; an illegal producer of opium poppy and cannabis Fishing: catch 4,300 metric tons (1982) Major in... ...lseed, cotton, jute, sugarcane, tobacco, tea, coffee; an illegal producer of opium poppy and cannabis for the international drug trade Fishing: catch ... ..., cotton, dates, raisins, tea, tobacco, sheep, goats; an illegal producer of opium poppy for the international drug trade Major industries: crude oil ... ...iculture: cash crops almost entirely sugarcane, small amounts of vanilla and perfume plants; food crops tropical fruit and vegetables, manioc, bananas... ...86) Exports: $128 million (f.o.b., 1980); 90% sugar, 5% rum and molasses, 4% perfume essences, 1% vanilla and tea Imports: $871 million (c.i.f., 1980)...

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... in Macedonia. According to them, Afghanistan was about to flood Europe with cheap opium through the traditional Balkan routes. The KLA - denounced... ...Macedonia, went the rumours. The Taliban were known to stock c. 3000 tonnes of raw opium. The Afghanis - Arab fighters against the Soviet occupatio... ... Crime Prevention (UNODCCP) culminated this year in the virtual eradication of all opium poppies in Afghanistan. Only 18 months ago, Afghan opium p... ...8- 9), and intense meddling and manipulation by near and far. One thing is certain: opium production is likely to increase dramatically. And Western... ...ian music: liturgy and folk and elegy combined. The smells are heavy with muskular perfumes. It is like time travel. It is like revisiting one's chi...

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...s. The rich have a huge amount of money to spend on such things as French perfume, designer clothes, and high tech computers. The young children o... ...minated needles. ―Drugs have been a long term problem in China with opium apparently being brought to us in the 7 th and 8 th centuries by ... ... use. And the government has always fought bitterly against it. We lost the opium wars to the British so were forced to allow opium imports. Under th...

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...at commonly rings in their eares, if it did pierce them as it doth us. My perfumed Jerkin serveth for my nose to smell unto, but after I have worne i... ...knoweth the way how to be rich, mightie and wise, and how to lie in sweet-perfumed beds. She loveth life; she delights in beautie, in glorie, and in ... ...st divers nations of the world) their whole body over with compounded and perfumed waters, in such sort as they held it as a great testimonie of sim... ...ncompounded water: Such as were most delicate and effeminate were wont to perfume their whole bodies over and over, three or four times every day: A... ...ended the delights of nature, they were wont to wipe their privities with perfumed wooll. At ubi nil faciam, sed lota memtula lana. Mart. xi. Epig. ... ... Pericles: you may judge, by shewing my hand fraughted with six drammes of opium. It will be an evident token of a violent sicknesse. My judgement sh...

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... the Nazi brown ones. The IMRO has developed into a fascist organization. It traded opium. It hired out the services of its skilled assassins (for 2... ...nian music: liturgy and folk and elegy combined. The smells are heavy with muskular perfumes. It is like time travel. It is like revisiting one's ch...

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...east upon. Why humans make smoke, why humans smoke pipes filled with burning opium or tobacco, why humans burn their food comes from 25 million yea... ...ticides to kill bugs and buying sprays and detergents and antiperspirants and perfumes and nail polish and bathroom cleanser and motor oil and all th... ...nt-essences that capture the smell of certain selected plants… and use them as perfume to adorn ourselves with to cover up our own natural smell beca... ...substance they could get their hands on including hashish, marijuana, cocaine, opium, and a host of pills called uppers or downers. Even in middle o... ...moke tobacco, its not okay to smoke marijuana. It’s not okay to take LSD, or opium, or cocaine. Its okay to take prescribed opium derivatives. Its... ... needed drugs. Tobacco, coffee, salt, and sugar were not enough. Alcohol. Opium. Cocaine. Benzedrine. Cigarettes. Smelling salts, snuff. Chewi... ...strialized the drug industry of growing poppies and manufacturing cocaine and opium. Which the Taliban had been fighting against and destroying. J... ...ll the rotting stinking flesh hidden under the swaddled layers of clothes and perfume. Flies are attracted to rotting things. They are attracted to... ...lse Whigs. Until they pomaded and sprinkled themselves with white flour, and perfumed themselves to cover up the stink of their rotting bodies, and...

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... pearls, gum, benzoin, frankincense, musk, amber, sandalwood, aloes, and other perfumes, and trinkets and the like." A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. If our prof... ...kle, triple sets of sails, boards, pitch, oakum, all sorts of food, preserves, perfumes, all the medicines known to the pharmaceutist, and a doctor a... ... seats of the barges they were protected from the sun by a canopy or awning of perfumed mats, which were supported on a frame-work of reeds. Next to t... ...ng-a- muck, which may be described as a Javanese making himself intoxicated on opium and while in this condition seizing a dangerous weapon and runnin...

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...t may seem to be impossible. Paralysis of the will, brought on by alcohol, opium or refusal to use the will is the worst of dis- eases. Moreover, ever... ...TheWoman ofRefinement Is as careful to-day of her papers as 5he ,l8 of her perfumes. Batilj- ehosen Btalioiirry Is as ilroiiK a rellectlon on tier Roo... ...r TheWoman ofRefinement Isaa careful to-day of her papers as she Is or her perfumes, flnitly chosen stationer; is as strong a reflection on her Kood t...

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...y of a battle, at least one murder, and several sudden deaths. For that reason it begins with a pink tea and among the mingled odors of many delicate perfumes and the hale, frank smell of Caroline Testout roses. There had been a great number of debutantes ?coming out? that season in San Francisco by means of afternoon teas, pink, lavender, and otherwise. This particular te...

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...was perceptibly warmer. On board, the two watches mingled forward, smoking opium and playing a game that looked like checkers. Three of them were wash... ...is glance wandered now to the sordid cabin of the “Bertha Millner” and the opium-drugged coolie sprawled on the “donkey’s break- fast,” and now to the... ...ver the mainmast. On the fo’c’sle head the Chinamen were asleep or smoking opium. It was Charlie’s watch. Kitchell dozed in his hammock in the shadow ... ...ights were set, the Chinamen foregathered in the fo’c’stle head, smok- ing opium, and by eight o’clock the routine of the day was at an end. So the ti... ... com- ing forth from the strong.” The schooner seemed to swim in a bath of perfumed air; the membrane of the nostrils fairly prinkled with the sensati... ...e tulle and whiter kid, odorous of delicate sachets and scarce-perceptible perfumes—was a figure unhandsome and unkempt beyond description. His hair w... ... were gray with grime; a strangling odor of oil and tar, of cooking and of opium, of Chinese punk and drying fish, pervaded all the air. In the waist,...

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... purple shrubs are shaded endlessly; in short, where blend all colors, all perfumes of a flora whose wonders are still ignored. Widen the boundaries o... ...emed a mere caprice of nature giving to stone the freshness, softness, and perfume of plants. “Why do you call it matchless? can it not reproduce it- ... ... stage curtain. Here we may breathe the thoughts of God, as it were like a perfume. See! the angry billows which engulf the ships laden with men seem ... ... men, thou wouldst fain be plunged for- ever in these spheres of light and perfume where now thou art, free of thy swooning body, and where thy though... ...orous which stimulates life and accelerates its propulsion; or again, like opium, which puts to sleep corporeal nature, disengages the spirit from eve... ...lower blooming in winter. “A mystery!” cried Wilfrid, intoxicated with its perfume. “The flower makes me giddy,” said Minna; “I fancy I still hear tha...

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...sdain upon the duenna, “if one cannot make you ca- pitulate, with a little opium one can make you sleep. We 36 The Girl with the Golden Eyes know myt... ...morning. Be walking there at that hour. One of the two flasks will contain opium to send your Argus to sleep; it will be sufficient to employ six drop... ...can describe. “Yes; but not to-night. T o-night Adolphe, I gave too little opium to La Concha. She might wake up, and I should be lost. At this moment... ...f litter, conveyed him across a garden. He could smell its flowers and the perfume peculiar to trees and grass. The silence which reigned there was so... ... through sev- eral apartments, and left him in a room whose atmosphere was perfumed, and the thick carpet of which he could feel beneath his feet. A w... ...u, profit by my momentary empire to say to you: ‘Take me as one tastes the perfume of a flower when one passes it in a king’s garden.’ Then, after hav... ...eal, feeling in souls who are not illuminated by that celestial light, nor perfumed with that holy essence from which the performance of sentiment spr... ...been a gentle rain, the earth was moist. At night-time certain veg- etable perfumes are far stronger than during the day; Henri could smell, therefore...

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...ied to excess, he hoped would in due time kill him, as Vendramin relied on opium. “And I am a prince!” As he spoke the words, Emilio Memmi tossed Marc... ...er as a woman, this sudden incursion of wealth had the effect of a dose of opium. When the Prince had drunk the whole of the bottle of port, eaten hal... ...rself at home—she has taken off her cloak! Have I, like Vendramin, inhaled opium, and am I in the midst of one of those dreams in which he sees Venice... ...man in Italy. T o me, seeing things as I do through the dazzling medium of opium, she seems the very highest expression of art; for nature, without kn... ...strange things in our country, monsieur,” she went on. “Vendramin lives on opium, as this one lives on love, and that one buries himself in learning; ... ...ing is addressed to the intellect; it communicates ideas directly , like a perfume. The singer’s voice impinges not on the mind, not on the memory of ... ...ead of exciting my passive flesh; the air seems red and sparkling, unknown perfumes of indescrib- able strength relax my sinews, roses wreathe my temp...

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...d have interfered with his chemical processes, had supplied its place with perfumed lamps, emitting flames of various hue, but all uniting in a soft, ... ...uch it.” “Nay, pluck it,” answered Aylmer,—”pluck it, and inhale its brief perfume while you may. The flower will wither in a few moments and leave no... ...and wherefore such and such flowers differed among them selves in hue and perfume. Nevertheless, in spite of this deep intelligence on his part, ther... ...ni, though he knew not why, think of deep hues of purple or crimson and of perfumes heavily delectable. “Are you in the garden?” “Yes, Beatrice,” answ... ...ask to nurse and serve thee; and thou shalt reward her with thy kisses and perfumed breath, which to her is as the breath of life.” Then, with all the... ...se teeth and an auburn wig; if he demanded peace of mind, they recommended opium or a brandy bottle. Tracts of land and golden mansions, situate in th... ...s if it were his native atmosphere. Again, they drugged their patient with opium and drenched him with intoxicating liquors, hoping that the snake mig... ...nd darting to and fro within his narrow limits, evidently enlivened by the opium or alcohol, and in cited to unusual feats of activity. Thenceforth t...

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...ED FOREST e drove off from the Springs Hotel about three in the afternoon. The sun warmed me to the heart. A broad, cool wind streamed pauselessly d... ...s. We gazed up the cleft into the bosom of the mountain. We sat by the margin of the dump and saw, far below us, the green treetops stand- ing still i... ...snowy white; but, alas! he had heard rumours of Silverado. He know it for a lone place on the mountain-side, with no friendly wash-house near by, wher... ...amages, and filled in some of the doors and windows with white cotton cloth, became a healthy and a pleasant dwell- ing-place, always airy and dry, an... ...It did not hold the attention, nor interrupt the thread of meditation, like a blackbird or a nightin- gale; it was mere woodland prattle, of which the... ...er, and the most of them came lower than my waist. For a prosperous forest tree, we must look below, where the glen was crowded with green spires. But...

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...g to her words the poetry of song by its peculiar intonation. Inhaling the perfume of violets that ac- companied her, I understood how the memory of t... ...ht of July and a glorious moon lent us their misty light. Gusts of mingled perfumes soothed the soul; the Countess was clinking in her hand the five g... ...’ said he, ‘I have at home, to enable me to wait till to-morrow, a dose of opium which Desplein pre- pared for me to send me to sleep without any risk... ... com- plete, I went to the Rue Payenne. Anxiety had conquered the power of opium. Octave was walking up and down his garden like a madman. “ ‘Answer t... ...n which I believed, that enchanted blossom with glorious colors, and whose perfume disgusts us with reality. I am a Saint-Theresa who has not been suf...

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... AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL.... ... AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM- EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL... ..., oil of spikenard, myrrh, balsams, attar of roses, and rose-water, as the perfumes usually contained in the Hebrew scent-pendants. Rose-water, which ... ...ew scent-pendants. Rose-water, which I am the first to mention as a Hebrew perfume, had, as I presume, a fore- most place on the toilette of a Hebrew ... ... case, there needs no more to be said on the subject of Hebrew combs.’ II. PERFUMES.—Before, however, the hair received its fi- nal arrangement from t... ...one- tenth of the income which the bride brings him, for the pur- chase of perfumes, essences, precious ointments, &c. All these articles were preserv... ...flowing loosely between the shoulders. According to the Oriental taste for perfumes, all the ribbons or fillets used in these helmets and turbans were...

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...ly the tattered blinds, sending from the woods opposite a faint and sickly perfume as of decaying flowers. Under Almayer’s heavy tread the boards of t... ...d see stretched on a pile of cool mats, a wooden pillow under his head, an opium pipe in his nerveless fingers. He did not seek, however, consolation ... ...um pipe in his nerveless fingers. He did not seek, however, consolation in opium—perhaps it was too ex- pensive—perhaps his white man’s pride saved hi... ...ted her with a friendly nod before climbing up indoors to seek his beloved opium pipe. The elder children clustered round her, daring from long acquai... ..., descrying Babalatchi far away, would shake off the stupor of an habitual opium smoker and, tottering on to the middle of the road, would await the a... ...ng his muddled brain with secrets of trade, and relapsed by the aid of his opium pipe into a state of stupefied bliss, letting Babalatchi pursue his w... ...at dew-sparkling petals that descended rotating slowly in a continuous and perfumed stream; and over them, under them, in the sleeping water; all arou... ... luxuriant vegetation bathed in the warm air charged with strong and harsh perfumes, the intense work of tropical nature went on: plants shooting upwa...

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...bout one o’clock in the morning, the wife of Mon- sieur Cesar Birotteau, a perfumer established near the Place Vendome, was startled from her sleep by... ...Birotteau!” she cried at last in a voice full of anguish. She then saw the perfumer in the middle of the next room, a yard-stick in his hand measuring... ...s a wolf. Do you hear me, Birotteau?” “Yes, wife, here I am,” answered the perfumer, coming into the bedroom. “Come and warm yourself, and tell me wha... ... if you think a citizen has paid his debt to his country by merely selling perfumery for twenty years to those who came to buy it. If the State demand... ... burn our sign, ‘The Queen of Roses’; I efface the name, ‘Cesar Birotteau, Perfumer, Successor to Ragon,’ and put simply, ‘Perfumery’ in big letters o... ... comes either by caravan, or by Havre.” According to Birotteau al- oes and opium were only to be found in the Rue des Lombards. Rosewater, said to be ...