"Fragrant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... will make her beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies; A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all ...
— The Line of Love - Dizain des Mariages • James Branch Cabell
... it broke nearer and nearer as if a vast cordon of cannon was being drawn around the horizon. Yet she was conscious only of pleasure. She had no fear. At last came the sweep of cool, fragrant storm-wind, a short and sudden dash of rain, and then in the cool, sweet hush which followed, the worn and weary woman fell into ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 • Various
... several varieties, from dark purple to very light and white. Lemoine's hybrids have the largest flowers, but are not so fragrant as ...
— Gardening Indoors and Under Glass • F. F. Rockwell
... so flavoured with the thyme of Hymettus that it is scarcely eatable, though to smell the herb itself in a breezy walk upon that celebrated Mount would be an exceeding pleasure; thus certain epic poems are overpoweringly flavoured with herbs of Milton, while yet the fragrant balm and fresh breeze of his poetry is not to ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth
... the Pequod had been baling some time in this way; several tubs had been filled with the fragrant sperm; when all at once a queer accident happened. Whether it was that Tashtego, that wild Indian, was so heedless and reckless as to let go for a moment his one-handed hold on the great cabled ...
— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville
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