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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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... 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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...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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...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 ...

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... Among the passengers were a number of officers, Government officials, and opium and indigo merchants, whose business called them to the eastern coast... ...Francis. “That was because they had intoxicated her with fumes of hemp and opium.” “But where are they taking her?” “To the pagoda of Pillaji, two mil... ... in the act of plung- ing themselves into the drunkenness caused by liquid opium mingled with hemp, and it might be possible to slip between them to t... ...atna, a large manufacturing and trading-place, where is held the principal opium market of India; or Monghir, a more than European town, for it is as ... ...me; while nutmeg-trees in full foli- age filled the air with a penetrating perfume. Agile and grin- ning bands of monkeys skipped about in the trees, ... ...andy; smoking, the while, long red clay pipes stuffed with little balls of opium mingled with essence of rose. From time to time one of the smokers, o... ...ng themselves, with flowers which were giving forth their last colours and perfumes, not on bushes, but on trees, and within bamboo enclosures, cherry...

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... ambassador. She filled the nipple with patchouli, cleaned the bochettino, perfumed the goose-quill, which she attached to the mouth- piece and used o... ...he T urk of the intellect made somnolent by meditation. Criti- cism is his opium; his harem of books to read disgusts him with real work. Indifferent ... ...woman, and she burst into tears. Filling her hookah with tobacco soaked in opium, she spent the greater part of the night in smoking, dulling thus the... ...to bathe in their light, to examine every detail of her dress, breathe its perfume, listen to the music of her voice, watch the grace- ful composition... ... nearly lost both his strength and his senses once more, as he inhaled the perfume, to him entrancing though venomous, of the poem composed by Beatrix... ... which rippled the rays of the foot-lights attracted by the shin- ing of a perfumed oil. Her white brow sparkled. She had applied an imperceptible tin... ...o memories, that of angels and that of devils) Beatrix was redolent of the perfume which she used at Les T ouches during her first acquaintance with C...

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...rom Snowy Alp. Sleep hath forsook and giv’n me o’re To deaths benumming Opium as my only 630 Thence faintings, swounings of despair, And sen... ..., Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An Amber sent of odorous perfume 720 Her harbinger, a damsel train behind; Some rich Philistia...

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...that multitude, intoxicated by all the seduc- tions the world can offer, a perfume-laden atmosphere and general exaltation acted upon their over-wroug... ...alone, reclining on a sofa, he made for him- self, like a T urk drunk with opium, a happiness as fruitful, as lavish, as he wished. First of all, he f...

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... which, indeed, was not unlikely; since, in addition to a moderate dose of opium prescribed by the apothecary, she was labouring under the effects of ... ...er encour aged than checked. Her disordered appearance, and a whole sale perfume of Geneva which pervaded the apartment, af forded stong confirmato... ...alls; the ivy crept round the trunks of the trees; and the garden flowers perfumed the air with delicious odours. Hard by, was a little churchyard; n... .... The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green; and shed her richest perfumes abroad. It was the prime and vigour of the year; all things were g... ...e, that crept over the casement, and filled the place with their delicious perfume. It looked into a garden, whence a wicket gate opened into a small ... ...ops, razors, washballs, harness paste, medicine for dogs and horses, cheap perfumery, cosmetics, and such like wares, which he carried in a case slung...

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... her a barely perceptible delicious feminine odor—an odor that was in part perfume, but mostly a subtle, vague smell, charming beyond words, that came... ...eep alcoves, were divans with mattings and 31 Frank Norris head-rests for opium smokers. The walls were painted blue and hung with vertical Cantonese... ...She was just close enough for Candy to catch the sweet, delicious feminine perfume that came indefinitely from her clothes, her hair, her neck. From w... ... perceptible, delicious, feminine odor, that was in part 109 Frank Norris perfume, but mostly a subtle, vague aroma, charming beyond words, that came... ... Condy smote a knee, exclaiming: “By Jove! that’s as good as Loudon Dodds’ opium ship! Why, Cap., you’re a treasure in yourself for a fellow looking f... ...ng from her forehead. Her whole dear being radiated with that sweet, clean perfume that seemed to come alike from her clothes, her neck, her arms, her...

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...s-nostrums for consumption, for “women’s diseases”—notorious mix- tures of opium and alco-hol, in the very shop to which her husband sent patients for... ...nto buying too many shirts for Kennicott, and gaped at the “clever novelty perfumes— just in from New York.” Carol got three books on the theater, and... ... of the round table at which they sat. She peeped through the glass at the perfume- boxes of black and gold and citron in the hollow table. She looked... ...abysmal thing smacking of simpering hair- 444 Main Street dressers, cheap perfume, red-plush suites on the back streets of tenderloins, and complacen...

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...Camilla is reviving. He determines to watch over her. Camillo now tosses a perfumed handkerchief under his nose, and inhales the coxcombical incense o... ...hug his musket less desper- ately. Little presents—feminine he knew by the perfumes float- ing round them,—gloves and cigars, fine handkerchiefs, and ... ... of remorse. She summoned her maid to undress her, and smelt her favourite perfume, and lay in her bed, to complete her period of rest, closing her ey... ...pt; yet she had no sleep; nor would coffee give her sleep. She shrank from opium as deleterious to the constitution, and her mind settled on music as ...

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...gh her hair at the stars. ‘I wonder how it is you have such a fine natural perfume,’ he said, always in the same abstract, inquiring tone of happi- ne... ... ‘But you are scented like nuts, new kernels of hazel-nuts, and a touch of opium....’ He remained abstractedly breathing her with his open mouth, quit... ...gether on the beach, Siegmund and Helena let the day exhale its hours like perfume, unperceived. Siegmund slept, a light evanescent sleep irised with ...

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... shine that seemed spring-like, in breathing with the same breath autumnal perfumes laden with vegetable odors which seemed a nourishment brought by t... ...jasmine, combined with her eyes to produce se- duction. She burned certain perfumes to fill the air with those subtle emanations which affect men’s fi... ...pale.” “Ah!” continued Mademoiselle de Verneuil, glancing about her, “this perfumed room, the flowers, the lights, this intoxi- cating air, it is full... ...minion of far greater intoxication than the petty excite- ments of wine or opium. The lucidity then given to ideas, the delicacy of the high-wrought s...

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...like the roses it blossomed in the dead of winter, emitted a sort of faint perfume of adventure, and died before spring set in. But indubitably it was... ...He was an excellent petty officer—very compe- tent, indeed, and a moderate opium-smoker. The rest of them 65 Joseph Conrad in one great rush smothere...

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...like the roses it blossomed in the dead of winter, emitted a sort of faint perfume of adventure and died before spring set in. But indubitably it was ... ... He was an excellent petty of- ficer—very competent indeed, and a moderate opium smoker. The rest of them in one great rush smothered that pony. They ...

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...s on the China coast.” He stopped, then added in an explanatory mur- mur: “Opium clippers—you know. Nothing of brass buttons about me. My ship left me... ...d ap- palling. Even the careless disposition of the young ex-officer of an opium-clipper was affected by the ominous aspect of the hour. What was this... ...Jorgenson spoke sud- denly in a cautious tone: “The new Rajah Tulla smokes opium and is sometimes dangerous to speak to. There is a lot of discontent ... ...t was very angry and reproached Belarab for keeping him, Ningrat, short of opium to smoke. He began by calling him “O! son,” and ended by shouting, “O... ... asked, very softly. The inside of the deckhouse was full of stagnant heat perfumed by a slight scent which seemed to emanate from the loose mass of M... ...med to have gone out of the world. The oncoming shadow rose as subtle as a perfume from the black coast lying athwart the eastern semicircle; and such...

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...“but I will accept your esteem, all the same.” “But I want gloves, and the perfumers will be base enough to decline your paper,” said Lousteau. “Stop,... ...capped with printed paper in such a sort that the flowers of rhetoric were perfumed by the cankered blossoms of that ill-kept, ill-smelling garden. Ha... ...ence in Paris to the Lyons silkweavers. Love and toilet are like color and perfume for a woman, and Coralie in her happiness looked lovelier than ever... ... Lucien. “No, only devotion,” said d’Arthez. “Anybody might take him for a perfumer’s assistant,” burst out Michel Chrestien, looking at Lucien’s head... ... a theatre or a work of art; he is above criticism; you can’t run down his opium and dye- woods, nor cocoa beans, paint, and pepper. Florine is at her... ...ill. “What queer business are you up to?” asked Lousteau of the artist, an opium-eater who dwelt among visions of en- chanted palaces till he either c...

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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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...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...