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  • Fragrant blossoms like plumeria and gardenia are especially nice.
  • Dr Archer was memorably described as "fragrant" by Mr Justice Caulfield during her husband's 1987 libel trial against the Daily Star. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Lemon zest contains terpenes, fragrant ethereal oils such as limonene, nerol and terpineol. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The masseuse applied fragrant medicated oils on the head and body in plentiful measure as one lay on a high wooden plank on the secluded verandah of an open walled courtyard.
  • The planter behind is filled with fragrant vines; two ‘Royal Cape’ plumbagos in red pots flank the front posts.
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  • The flowers have a strong, fragrant smell. Times, Sunday Times
  • The arbutus, all aglow and fragrant beneath its leaves, the purple fringed polygala were past, but they found the pale gold lily of the bellwort, the rust-red bloom of the ginger. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
  • In shady corners, deeper in the wood, the fragrant pyrola lifted its scape of clustering bells, like a lily of the valley wandered to the forest. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
  • It was a tangle of orange and lemon trees, looped with garlands of roses and flowering creepers, carpeted with a thousand fragrant, old-fashioned flowers, and arboured with grapevines, whose last year's leaves, though sparse, were still russet and gold: altogether a mere bright ribbon of beauty pinned like a lover's knot on a high shoulder of jutting rock. The Guests Of Hercules
  • Fragrant abelia is hardy to Zone 5 and maxes out at about 5' x 5' Archive 2008-07-01
  • Yet when I manage to find a wonderfully fragrant cowpat in the fields, you should hear the shrieks! Archive 2008-01-01
  • Then I got my camphor and lavender, and laid the fragrant powder between the folds of the mozzetta. My New Curate
  • Outside, you can explore a fragrant herb garden, orchards and lawns or take a circular walk through the parkland. The Sun
  • Other species found during the survey include coontail, fragrant waterlily, American pondweed, duckweed, American frogbit, cattail, soft-stem bulrush, and arrowhead.
  • A connoisseur would shun the very notion of ‘spoiling’ this fragrant and bubbly brew by adding milk or sugar to it.
  • In keeping with tradition, tourists were genuinely treated as honored guests and pressed by locals to accept thick slices of home baked bread, the crusts constellated with sesame seeds and fragrant anise, then roasted bell peppers, black kalamata olives, white wine and cloudy, iced glasses of ouzo. The Alluring Remoteness of Karpathos
  • The crowd of periwigged heads at the windows — the swearing chairmen round the steps (the blazoned and coronalled panels of whose vehicles denote the lofty rank of their owners), — the throng of embroidered beaux entering or departing, and rendering the air fragrant with the odors of pulvillio and pomander, proclaim the celebrated resort of Burlesques
  • The buds are heavy, each so full of fragrant petals that they are drooping under the weight of their ampleness.
  • Outside, you can explore a fragrant herb garden, orchards and lawns or take a circular walk through the parkland. The Sun
  • Heather is still in fragrant bloom, loud with bees. Country diary: Garndolbenmaen
  • -- The following is considered a most valuable preparation: Take of extract of yellow Peruvian bark, fifteen grains; extract of rhatany root, eight grains; extract of burdoch root and oil of nutmegs (fixed), of each two drachms; camphor (dissolve with spirits of wine), fifteen grains; beef marrow, two ounces; best olive oil, one ounce; citron juice, half a drachm; aromatic essential oil, as much as sufficient to render it fragrant; mix and make into an ointment. Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
  • If you have a green thumb and a back yard - or even a fair-sized planter box - you can easily coax a few plants to produce full, fragrant leaves.
  • A breastfed baby's stools should be frequent, greenish, inoffensively fragrant, loose, and unformed.
  • It stood the whitest and most fragrant rose in the garden, and its heart was the dewiest and most tender. The Heart of the Rose
  • To create one of the large life-size animal statues, he needs about 100 kilograms of the fragrant plants.
  • The task was difficult, as the sprigs were barbed with large thorns, and the fragrant resin stuck to their fingers as they broke the sprigs from the angular branch.
  • These make ideal portable plants providing a fragrant perfume and vivid colour in early to mid-summer next year.
  • Cured meat and fish stew son meal stew now a bit now , in addition, cured meat and fish cooperate with the meal , meal that pot come out entry very much fragrant.
  • Blossom with fragrant smoked joss - stick air, but its end mission, dedicate the oneself to you.
  • I'd serve this with some fragrant rice - a pilaf or something, jazzed up maybe with some orange peel, cloves, star anise, or a cardamom pod - but remember to take them out before you dish it up.
  • Old associations are sure to be fragrant herbs in English nostrils; we pull them up as weeds. Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches
  • In the perennial gardens, the use of colorful and fragrant plants, including gladiolus, iris, tuberose and alstroemeria, is abundant.
  • This lily is ubelievably fragrant as well as being beautiful. Archive 2008-07-01
  • It has stems just tall enough to cut, fragrant flowers in a full range of rich colours and makes a stunning display. The Sun
  • The air was fragrant with scents from the sea and the hills.
  • Fall stroll with staff horticulturist Deanne Eversmeyer featuring native plants such as American serviceberry, American yellowwood, Virginia sweetspire, spicebush, fragrant sumac, native ferns and grasses. 10 a.m. Green Scene: The bounty of fall includes tours, lectures and workshops
  • I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odour of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which grew around the happy orchard. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)
  • From the wide common over the thick waving fragrant grass came the sweet country music of the white sleeved mowers whetting their scythes and the voices of the children at play among the fresh-cut flowery swaths. Weatherwatch: Midsummer in Wiltshire in 1875
  • PLANTING some highly-fragrant nemesia in pots on my patio recently made me start thinking about the importance of scent to a garden. IcNewcastle
  • Fall stroll with staff horticulturist Deanne Eversmeyer featuring native plants such as American serviceberry, American yellowwood, Virginia sweetspire, spicebush, fragrant sumac, native ferns and grasses. 10 a.m. Green Scene: The bounty of fall includes tours, lectures and workshops
  • He was of an artless, open-hearted disposition which won men to him, and his reputation for generosity made his name fragrant throughout the entire region in which he lived. Chinese Folk-Lore Tales
  • He led me upstairs, into a seductive little bedroom lit with candles and fragrant with more incense. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sprinkle the mixed sauce on the steamed cod and garnish with chopped fragrant shallot.
  • The usual ingredients are aatop rice, ground glass, a spice called taal magna, a resin-like material called ranamastaki, a fragrant cardamom-like spice called tosh, powdered ruby and lapis lazuli and, in some cases, even diamond dust. The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage
  • Evenings, when we are both home, we usually sit at our wooden table, boiling rose tea in which to dip the day-old bread that complements a warmed, fragrant spread of salted schmaltz, sharing our borrowed newspaper or occasional magazine by gaslight. Deadly
  • It's unrewarding, too, since the leaves aren't fragrant until they are stirred in a pan.
  • Huge dark chinars and smaller magnolias, with their large, fragrant loose-petalled flowers, stand alongside the paths.
  • To perfume your sheets and make them a fragrant delight to slide between, just add 5 drops of lavender oil to the softener compartment of your washing machine.
  • The highly fragrant flowers open in a pale pink from deep pink buds throughout January and February. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mejorana (marjoram) origanum onites: Along with thyme, marjoram is the ingredient in the traditional manojo de hirbas de olor - handful of fragrant herbs - mentioned in countless recipes for soups and stews. A Culinary Guide to Mexican Herbs: Las Hierbas de Cocina
  • The cats have slept there to fight the rats and the mice, who have had their little homes behind the walls for half a century; and the sink spouts have for the same term poured into the soil close by, their fragrant fluids. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
  • Ruby red gerberas and even fragrant lilies and roses are abundant.
  • Sure enough, there was an apple pie on the dresser, warm and fragrant with a crisp sugar coat and a coffee pot sitting on the back of the stove.
  • These make ideal portable plants providing a fragrant perfume and vivid colour in early to mid-summer next year.
  • Be they daisies, lilies or roses, few women can resist the allure of a fragrant bloom. Times, Sunday Times
  • Other woody plants include fragrant sumac, evergreen sumac, little walnut, Mexican buckeye, Texas persimmon, Texas snowbell, and western white honeysuckle.
  • She let me help her cook - I fetched pot holders and handed her the wooden spoons with which she stirred huge pots of turnip soup, the fragrant steam filling the kitchen.
  • Some are fragrant oils, as, for example, clove, santal, and thyme; others are fragrant gums, such as gum bezoin and myrrh. Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883
  • To Jules -- our most fragrant daphne shrubs are blooming as we speak -- a winter bloomer with the most gorgeous perfume ever -- it lifts my heart in winter while waiting for the Spring lift -- and I hope it will lift your heart when u may be grieving. Paradis - French Word-A-Day
  • The shrine room was full of fragrant fumes of agarbathis and camphor and warm with the burning oil lamps.
  • Dried hops are soft and sweet smelling with a natural narcotic effect that will induce restful sleep, while lavender flowers and rose petals are refreshingly fragrant.
  • Small, deliciously fragrant flowers in autumn. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is a fragrant evergreen tree with flame-coloured bark.
  • The Comptonia or sweet-fern is in flower, the brown, catkin-like blossoms are nearly as fragrant as the foliage; it is the only fern we have with woody branches. Rural Hours
  • The pomander - a small perforated container filled with spices and herbs and worn on the body - was meant to provide a continuous fragrant shield against disease.
  • The fragrant flower heads can be trimmed off and saved, but cut off the flower stalk plus two or three pairs of leaves. The Sun
  • Other plants in the fragrant garden include a cherry plum which is allegedly a remedy for stress and anxiety and aconite, a toxic plant which in small doses is claimed to be good for colds.
  • Each will be sweet and fragrant within, and soft enough to scoop out with a spoon. Times, Sunday Times
  • It grows in long, fragrant swathes beside the lanes and at the field edges. Times, Sunday Times
  • Woven about the fragrant forehead of the fostress maiden's town. Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc From Swinburne's Poems Volume V.
  • When you are speaking with honest country people about the beauty of their fields, do not talk about "Flora spreading her fragrant mantle on the superficies of the earth, and bespangling the verdant grass with her beauteous adornments. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out
  • The invective I saw on these threads particularly from the one I referred to as the fragrant one (now disappeared) was never true, nor were her accusations, but you were a different story - never rude, a sensible and balanced lady but totally appalled by the spectre of an Obama presidency - what I am really asking you is why you are so out of sync with the mass of intelligent Americans thatI have spoken to or heard. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Water, protein, fat, ribonucleic acid, carbohydrate and a little mineral substance, fragrant odor.
  • The bread gets crispy in the oven, and the ingredient combo is simple and beautiful: sweet figs, soft mozzarella, fragrant basil and tasty pesto.
  • For reliable, early blooms in large quantity, many of these early flowering shrubs are as colorful as they are fragrant.
  • First - rate equipment facilities, service mild and fragrant await your presence respectfully.
  • Rice flour crackers, served on the side or piled right on top of the noodles, add crunch and (very important) another means by which to sop up the nectareous sweet, sour, fragrant, and spicy gravy that results when noodles, chicken, sambal, condiments, and broth are mixed.
  • My table was from my family and was of a very fragrant red wood, not what you call rosewood, but hong mu, which is so fine there’s no English word for it. The Joy Luck Club
  • The air was fragrant with the smell of orange blossoms.
  • But all this fragrant artifice hides an ugly, dirty little secret. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fragrant tuberoses, jackmentias, succulent cactus varieties, the milky bush and palm varieties, including the Royal Palms, can be used for avenue borders.
  • Thou knowest with what joy I roamed over thy confines, and beheld the universal beauty that then was spread around; how tenderly I whispered through thy flowers, how joyfully I carried up their fragrant odours as a thank-offering to heaven; how merrily I sported on the hills, or taught the branches of thy lofty trees to bow, as in obeisance to Him who made them! Parables From Nature
  • The whole side of the peat-stack had tumbled bodily into the great "black peat-hole" from which the winter's peats had come, and which was a favourite lair of Jock's own, being ankle-deep in fragrant dry peat "coom" -- which is, strange to say, a perfectly clean and even a luxurious bedding, far to be preferred as a couch to "flock" or its kindred abominations. The Lilac Sunbonnet
  • First there was a sizzle, and then, when the batter had succumbed to the intense heat from the gas flame below, only a few intermittent whistles escaped along with wisps of fragrant vapor.
  • Fragrant flowers in a single pot can perfume a whole room.
  • Toast for 2 minutes until the spices smell fragrant. The Sun
  • Page 408 here! the pompous Magnolia, reigns sovereign of the forests; how sweet the aromatic Illisium groves? how gaily flutters the radiated wings of the Magnolia auriculata? each branch supporting an expanded umbrella, superbly crested with a silver plume, fragrant blossom, or crimson studded strobile and fruits! Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
  • Thus a rose smells most fragrant at a distance; but if you bring it near the nose, it is not so pure and delightful; and the reason is this, — many earthy disturbing particles are carried with the smell, and spoil the fragrancy when near, but in a longer passage those are lost, and the pure brisk odor, by reason of its subtility, reaches and acts upon the sense. Symposiacs
  • A thief jumped in and drove away, but the weaving truck scattered a trail of donuts in its wake - a fragrant trail which cops gleefully homed in on.
  • For a bowl of something fresh and fragrant, try a simplified Thai hot and sour chicken soup. Times, Sunday Times
  • Historically the shrub's wood has been used as fragrant firewood and in Scotland juniper was the plant of choice for illegal whisky stills as the plant was said to burn with less smoke.
  • Available species include bald cypress, various dogwood, maple and oak varieties, arrowwood and nannyberry viburnum, black chokeberry, river birch, buttonbush, redbud, Norway spruce, eastern white pine and fragrant sumac. IndyStar.com Top Stories
  • Anointed and fragrant as an Asiatic despot, the strong Ulysses would sometimes revolt against this effeminateness. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
  • Both the glossy pipsissima and the pretty spotted wintergreen, with its variegated leaves, are common here; so is the fragrant shin-leaf; and the one-flowered pyrola, rare in most parts of the country, is also found in our woods. Rural Hours
  • A Yes, they are very fragrant and smell of lily of the valley. The Sun
  • Her name is fragrant with good deeds.
  • I like the wildness of the two plants that look charming together, with the small white fragrant flowers of the jasmine contrasting beautifully with the reddish purple ones of the clematis.
  • Use the internet to find instructions for something warm and fragrant that you can heat up. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Gentile Church is the "door," the type of catholic accessibleness (1Co 16: 9); but it must be not a mere thoroughfare but furnished with a wooden framework, so as not merely to admit, but also to safely enclose: cedar is fragrant, beautiful, and enduring. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • The women garlanded them with soft, fragrant flowers.
  • For example, early-flowering hyacinths offer a heady and fragrant choice for planting in containers along walkways and at entrances.
  • Burlap bags brimmed with fragrant leaves and chips of various woods.
  • An immense bedstead squatted next to a series of fragrant cedar chests emblazoned with someone's owl sigil. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • Be they daisies, lilies or roses, few women can resist the allure of a fragrant bloom. Times, Sunday Times
  • Gather the petals for potpourri, dry some flowers and make a Christmas wreath, scatter a few fragrant petals in your bath water.
  • The sacred bamboo rod is bathed in holy water from a golden vessel and wreathed in garlands of fragrant flowers.
  • Add the garlic and sage and cook for a minute or two, until fragrant.
  • The spice is light brown in color and has a delicately fragrant aroma and warm, sweet flavor.
  • Candles burned on the window sills, among fragrant boughs of spruce and pine.
  • On the nose, it has strong, fragrant aromas of gooseberry and lime, supported by searingly fresh acidity on the palate.
  • The sight that had arrested their attention was hundreds of the smaller squacco herons, standing-long necks curved into an S and long beaks poised to stab at fish-on nearly every single one of the sturdy lily pads that surrounded each fragrant blooming white flower. The Plains of Passage
  • My viburnum shrubs, which were historically used to counteract negative magicks, are just about ready to burst into fragrant blooms; I'll bet by next week they will be blooming.
  • The taramasalata, or carp roe spread ($3.95), was tasty, and the moussaka ($13.95) was fragrant with the scent of cloves.
  • It's an island where isolated villages cling precariously to crags, wild boar snuffle for food and bees grow drunk on the nectar from the maquis - the fragrant scrub that cloaks the island's ancient bones.
  • He bathed with fresh water and reclad in fragrant linen the exquisite body, upon which faint discolouring patches already heralded the inevitable end. The Dop Doctor
  • I planted the mixed borders, dabbled in woodland gardening, and wandered dizzily through the fragrant world of roses. 2009 May « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
  • In the perennial gardens, the use of colorful and fragrant plants, including gladiolus, iris, tuberose and alstroemeria, is abundant.
  • Before breakfast, she would wander about the gardens until her clothes were filled with all the fragrant perfumes of the flowers.
  • Michaelmas had come, with its fragrant basketfuls of purple damsons, and its paler purple daisies’.
  • I\'d barely spent ten minutes wandering through the aisles at this week\'s Fancy Food Show before I\'d sampled a Belgian chocolate, a tangy English cheddar, a cup of fragrant white tea -- made from the tips of leaves plucked from Sri Lankan bushes -- and a grain of Flavorbank\'s Hawaiian red alae sea salt. Sarah Murray: To Boldly Go: Global Food Marches Forward
  • The wild geranium was already showing its pink stem and scarlet-edged leaves, themselves almost gorgeous enough to pass for flowers; the periwinkle, with its wreaths of shining foliage, was hanging in garlands over the precipitous descent; and the lily of the valley, the fragrant woodroof, and the silvery wild garlick, were just peeping from the earth in the most sheltered nooks. The Ground-Ash
  • Blessed with a fine, mild climate almost vertical vineyards produce the region's finest, most fragrant wines.
  • Then under foot there were patches of woolly feather-grass and fragrant meadow-sweet, sheets of fescue, dog's-tail, creeping-bent, and meadow grass. La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
  • It will not only keep your bathroom and toilet fragrant and fresh, its disinfectant qualities will clear bacteria and viruses.
  • In these descriptions she not only imposed upon them, but upon herself, for she never thought a present pleasure equal to one, that was passed; and thus the delicious climate, the fragrant orangeries and all the luxuries, which surrounded her, slept unnoticed, while her fancy wandered over the distant scenes of a northern country. The Mysteries of Udolpho
  • They had to weave their way carefully through fragrant, stained, whimpering partygoers and paramedics who were beginning to look a bit nauseated themselves.
  • Amid a sea of comfort food, the tamales Oaxaquenos ($1.99 each), specifically the pollo en mole negro, are transcendent: the thinnest possible layer of sweet white masa is spread over fragrant banana leaves that, when steamed, impart a slightly grassy, earthy flavor. Sustenance in South Park « PubliCola
  • Beneath the trees grow clumps of pale cardamine andwild geranium, fragrant blue phlox, ferny gold corydalis, maroon trilliums, and dainty clumps of wild wood violets. My Garden, part 1 « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
  • The fragrant azalea is also said to have colored the side-hills in earlier times, of spots where they are now only found scattered here and there. Rural Hours
  • With soap still to be invented, the fragrant oils and waters were used in bathing and for perfuming hair.
  • Fragrant white mock-oranges, deutzias, magnolias, and dogwoods bloom in June.
  • Fragrant greenheart SPA expounds the culture of modern SPA deeply, and employed the famous SPA invest and manage company of Thailand to design the completely pure Thai style.
  • These make ideal portable plants providing a fragrant perfume and vivid colour in early to mid-summer.
  • That lovely, rich fragrant smell of the forest enveloped us.
  • People snack on whatever's around: noodles, wontons or steamed glutinous dumplings wrapped in fragrant leaves.
  • When one of them died, his son, or his nearest relative, carefully washed the corpse in water impregnated with an astringent or aromatic substance, such as natron or some solution of fragrant gums, and then fumigated it with burning herbs and perfumes which were destined to overpower, at least temporarily, the odour of death. [ History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
  • I know only that I was good to look upon, crowned with fragrant maile, clad in Princess Naomi's wonderful holoku loaned me by Uncle John from his taboo room; and I know that I advanced alone to him across the Mana lawn, and that he stepped forth from those about him to meet me half-way. ON THE MAKALOA MAT
  • Fall stroll with staff horticulturist Deanne Eversmeyer featuring native plants such as American serviceberry, American yellowwood, Virginia sweetspire, spicebush, fragrant sumac, native ferns and grasses. 10 a.m. Green Scene: The bounty of fall includes tours, lectures and workshops
  • Heat remaining 1 1/2 tablespoons peanut oil in wok until just smoking, then stir-fry remaining ginger, garlic, and pepper flakes until fragrant, about 5 seconds. Everything old is new again..
  • Fragrant, though the broad neutral ground was a wilderness of weeds of dampy growth, and (so our John used to tell me) snakes! Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,
  • With the smell of warm earth and fragrant fruit and flowery herbs, this is nothing if not enticing wine, glimmering red like some medieval jewel.
  • Remember that double flowers have more scent than singles and that pinks are more fragrant than reds. Times, Sunday Times
  • Place them in a heavy, dry skillet over moderate heat, stirring frequently, until fragrant.
  • Add the spice paste and fry gently for 2-3 minutes until it begins to smell fragrant. Times, Sunday Times
  • When hot, stir-fry the ginger and chilli until fragrant. Times, Sunday Times
  • Other fragrant messengers followed in their season, but, if ever I "win hame to mine ain countrie," I make mine avow to enshrine that first rosebud in my _reliquaire_, with all honor and solemnity, there to abide till one of us shall be dust. Border and Bastille
  • With fragrant flowers in hand, you don't need to yell out . Others can still smell their fragrance.
  • Grow fragrant herbs and flowers in raised beds or from hanging baskets so they are nearer your nose. Times, Sunday Times
  • Just now the soil of human hearts seems like black earth, but in the innermost substance of this dark soil there are thousands of fragrant flowers latent. The Promulgation of Universal Peace
  • Here we ate a mountain of tandoori lamb chops, moist chicken tikka, fragrant rice, and vegetables with fresh herbs and spices.
  • He smelled fragrant, by all accounts. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now a well-made pastil should not develope any odor of its own, but simply volatilize that fragrant matter, whatever it be, used in its manufacture. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants
  • If you're looking for a medium-sized bush for borders, four-foot-tall Madame Isaac Pereire, a blowsy Bourbon rose with arching canes full of opulent purplish-pink flowers is deliciously fragrant and reblooms throughout the summer.
  • Without the breeze, Ali noticed for the first time the pervasive sickroom odors that the fragrant ocean air had kept at bay. Fatal Error
  • Water passes through vents with each flush and is doused with fragrant liquid.
  • The highly fragrant flowers open in a pale pink from deep pink buds throughout January and February. Times, Sunday Times
  • cassia": Poetic use: a fragrant shrub or plant (OED). Sappho and Phaon
  • At Maizza, peach and nectarine trees groan with ripe fruit; fragrant herbs such as marjoram, rosemary and lemon verbena scent the warm summer air. Sniffing Out Local Gems
  • When the wind is blowing, you can smell those fragile, fragrant flowers all across Benton and Yakima counties.
  • Formal beds, divided by paths, probably contained a mixture of fragrant herbs, flowers including honeysuckle and rose, and fruit trees such as mulberry and quince.
  • This year the little town was especially seductive, what with cloudless skies by day, a bedazzlement of stars by night and, at an altitude of almost two miles, mountain air as fragrant as it was thin. Thin Air, Rich Fare
  • And nightly I did return; my feet again trod the daisied meadows of England; the song of her birds was in my ears; I wept with delight to find myself once more wandering beneath the fragrant shade of her green hedge-rows; and I awoke to weep in earnest when I found it but a dream. Roughing It in the Bush
  • Fragrant and hearty, this is a great, no-fuss traybake. Times, Sunday Times
  • In summer, I add scoops of rich ice-cream; in winter, natural yoghurt and flower honey give a fragrant tang.
  • -- FRAGRANT WATER LILY (Castalia odorata) is one of several species of plants with floating padlike leaves (thus the common name lily pads). Catch More Largemouth Bass in Weeds in Early Spring
  • Wet-kneed, we walked by pastures filled with the white froth of meadowsweet and river-bank flora of lady's bedstraw, betony, devil's bit scabious, greater burnet and eyebright, kneeling several times to store memories of the scent of the last of the fragrant orchids. Country diary: Forest-in-Teesdale
  • The highly fragrant flowers open in a pale pink from deep pink buds throughout January and February. Times, Sunday Times
  • In fact, some are already blooming, such as my lavender and white penstemons, the dazzling pink and scarlet dianthus, and fragrant navy blue heliotrope.
  • Elizabethans, and Milton to Auden and Dylan Thomas, an elaborate tradition discernible in lavish metaphor and luxurious sound and rhythm, the second a domestic ageless tradition, an elementary language where, like a new Adam, the poet gives things their names, perceiving how the speech sounds take shape - as in a passage in the autobiographical Another Life: I watched the vowels curl from the tongue of the carpenter's plane,/resinous, fragrant ... Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 - Presentation Speech
  • Meanwhile, stir-fry garlic until it smells fragrant, add in salted soya beans, stir well.
  • While sitting beneath those fragrant pink trumpets, Morris can gaze across the porch at this stunning 'Bonita Shea' begonia. Cat’s Eye View « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
  • In this dish, boneless chicken, after being barbecued, is cooked with spices giving the chicken a fragrant taste.
  • The jasmine on my balcony is so fragrant that I can smell it as soon as I open the door in the morning.
  • Candied ginger is ANOTHER preserved food; it's what sushi-eaters developed in Japan to keep their sushi fragrant.
  • “Niggers and dagoes,” said the king of Yonder Kingdom, glancing carelessly backward and lighting in his lips a carefully rolled wisp of fragrant tobacco. DARKWATER
  • Thus they can press an oil that is more fragrant and flavorful than the bland oil pressed from sweet almonds.
  • But it bakes up into something uncommonly fragrant, moist and nubbly-crumbed. Like a lullaby
  • For instance, the smell of durians is fragrant for people in some cultures but repellant for those in others.
  • This dessert wine - fragrant with aromas of raisins and vanilla - is best poured at fireside.
  • As he watched the events occurring between the two moons, he blew on a plastic beaker of fragrant Arcturan tea.
  • The delicate fragile fern and the larger fragrant wood fern nestle in the crevices of the sheer cliff off the northern side of the summit.
  • Beautiful wreathes made of fragrant greens, lights twinkling in a multitude of colors, ornaments glittering, Christmas stockings … you can choose from a variety of unique designs. 26 Christmas Decorating Ideas for Your Home
  • A slick of house-made dressing over crisp romaine balances fragrant garlic and anchovies with the tang of lemon.
  • Meaty grilled shrimp, fragrant with garlic, finish the dish.
  • But don't miss a hike with botanist Stephane Rogliano through the maquis, the hypnotically fragrant cover of shrubs and wild herbs (mint, thyme, laurel, rosemary) that spreads over much of the island. Dream Hideaways: The World's Top Microboutique Hotels
  • Another fragrant leaf from my diary, that was, and my only regret for Emperor Max was that he'd been a fairish cricketer for a novice, and might have made a half-decent batter, if he'd lived. ' Watershed
  • Fragrant abelia is a perfect "equity" shrub in that it is low-management, deer-resistant, virtually pest-free, provides fragrance, seasonal flowers, brillant fall coloration, and, for early winter interest, delightful star-shaped seed pods. Archive 2008-07-01
  • The sauce itself was light, fragrant and slightly sweet.
  • He wished he could smell her fragrant perfume right there and then.
  • Wet-kneed, we walked by pastures filled with the white froth of meadowsweet and river-bank flora of lady's bedstraw, betony, devil's bit scabious, greater burnet and eyebright, kneeling several times to store memories of the scent of the last of the fragrant orchids. Country diary: Forest-in-Teesdale
  • She fussed over him, heaping his plate with a thick fragrant soup, cut thick slabs from the loaf, waited for him to taste. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • Now I am come within the atmosphere of the Illisium groves, how reanimating is the fragrance! every part of this plant above ground possesses an aromatic scent, but the large stillated pericarpes is the most fragrant part of it, which continually perspires an oleagenous sweat, as warm and vivific as Cloves or Mace, I never saw it grow naturally further North than Lat. 33°, on the Mobile river and its branches, and but one place in East Florida near Lake George, Lat. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
  • Spicy and fragrant carrot-beef paste was made from materials as carrot, onions, vegetable oil, natural seasonings and color agent after fried, boiled and got an instant seasoning paste.
  • When hard spring water is employed, the otto is rich in stearoptene, but less transparent and fragrant. Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
  • An immense bedstead squatted next to a series of fragrant cedar chests emblazoned with someone's owl sigil. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • These make ideal portable plants providing a fragrant perfume and vivid colour in early to mid-summer.
  • As autumn shows its tail, osmanthus flowers wither but the scent lingers, though not as fragrant as before.
  • Lotus (water lily) is an aquatic plant with broad floating green leaves and bright fragrant flowers that grow only in shallow waters.
  • Roses,sweet and fragrant,sent to you to say,May each hour be a happy one on this special day. Have a happy birthday!
  • Beneath the trees grow clumps of pale cardamine andwild geranium, fragrant blue phlox, ferny gold corydalis, maroon trilliums, and dainty clumps of wild wood violets. My Garden, part 1 « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog

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