"Perfumed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... beautiful, merely. The hair decorous, quiet, unadorned and debauched not by powder and paint, stands aloof as Desdemona, Ophelia or Rosalind. The face, brazen, with a sharp-tongued, vulgar queen of a thing in its center, on a throne, surrounded by perfumed nymphs, under the sensual glare of two rose-colored lamps, sits and ...
— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore
... and himself sprang back again eager to slay him with spear of bronze. But Aphrodite snatched up Paris, very easily as a goddess may, and hid him in thick darkness, and sent him down in his fragrant perfumed chamber; and herself went to summon Helen. Her she found on the high tower, and about her the Trojan women thronged. So with her hand she plucked her perfumed raiment and shook it and spake to her in the likeness of an aged dame, a wool-comber that was wont to work for her fair ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer (Lang, Leaf, Myers trans.)
... short, square, round-faced individual with his minutely shaven face and slow greenish eyes, and his hair combed back and still reeking with perfumed tonic—this shiny, scented, and overgroomed sport with rings on his fat, blunt fingers and the silk laces on his tan oxfords as fastidiously tied as though a valet ...
— The Dark Star • Robert W. Chambers
... dressed in the extreme of fashion, with little boots, and little gloves, and a dotted veil, and a chiffon parasol, and Hildegarde was folded in a perfumed embrace before she had fairly recognised ...
— Hildegarde's Neighbors • Laura E. Richards
... against his shoulder. The perfumed gold of her hair was against his cheeks. "No one else can make me ...
— Mistress Anne • Temple Bailey
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