"Aromatic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Dry, Aromatic, Cordial and friendly to the Brain, may be qualify'd by the Cold and Moist: The Bitter and Stomachical, with the Sub-acid and gentler Herbs: The Mordicant and pungent, and such as repress or discuss ...
— Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets • John Evelyn
... ceilinged chamber, furnished with luxury and taste. The walls were hung with tapestries, the floor spread with costly Eastern rugs; on an inlaid Moorish table a tall, three-beaked lamp of beaten copper charged with aromatic oil shed light and perfume ...
— The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series • Rafael Sabatini
... completely unreal figure of King Humphrey the Eighth came to where Morgan had surrounded himself with aromatic smoke. ...
— Talents, Incorporated • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... a curious smell in the vaults, which we noticed the moment we entered them. We can only describe the smell by saying that it was of a twofold sort—faintly aromatic, as it were, in its first effect, but with some after-odour very sickening in our nostrils. The Baron's furnaces and retorts, and other things, were all there to speak for themselves, together with some packages of chemicals, having ...
— The Haunted Hotel - A Mystery of Modern Venice • Wilkie Collins
... a dream influence lingered with him, a vision of a cloistered enclosure, a dream in which all his senses, now assailed by the sights and smells and sounds of a troop-ship, drew in again the familiar things; he beheld the red tiles a-shimmer above the yellow stone; the aromatic scent of budding eucalyptus was in his nostrils, the sound of the young laughter of women in his ears. He sat up, gazing uncertainly at the dark, crowded space, the narrow stairway, the great iron racks covered with gray-blanketed ...
— Stanford Stories - Tales of a Young University • Charles K. Field
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