Each garden is perfumed with the smell of honey; the granaries are full of wheat and barley; vegetables and reeds and herbs are growing in the parks; flowers and nosegays are in the houses; lemons, citrons, and figs are in the orchards."

"The softness of Sybaris, the manners of Rhodes and Antioch, and of perfumed, drunken, flower-crowned Miletus," were all to be found at Rome.

One is devoted entirely to soap; another to tobacco, through which you cough and sneeze your way to the bazaar of spices, and delightedly inhale its perfumed air.

We sink gently upon the cool linen, and the boy covers us with a perfumed sheet.

To kiss her hand, her soft perfumed hand.

Now she grew and unfolded in the warmth of this season, like a blossom perfumed and splendid.

The bride's house was decorated in the same manner as the groom's, and upon a tray in the middle of a big room a small slow fire of perfumed wood was burning.

" "It makes me think of a beautiful young woman, all fire and spirit, and fineness, who drinks life like a perfumed wine," said Morrison, his eyes on hers.

The days were like golden horns of plenty, spilling out sunshine, wandering perfumed airs, and the heart-quickening aroma of the new season.

Half an hour later, she sat, fresh from a hot bath, breathing out delicately a reminiscence of recent violet water and perfumed powder; fresh, fine under-linen next her glowing skin; shining and refreshed, in a gown of chiffon and satin; eating her first mouthful of Yoshido's ambrosial soup.

Greatly, therefore, were they surprised when, as she passed beneath the window at which he had taken up his station, they saw him scatter some perfumed water on her head in order to induce her to look up; after which he hurriedly descended the great staircase to receive and welcome her, and with every possible exhibition of affection and respect conducted her to the hall in which the banquet had been prepared.

It was music that made appear in the foggy heavens the peaks of Sorrento covered with orange and lemon trees, and the coast of Sicily, perfumed by its flaming flora.

The rice should only be eaten after moistening it with this perfumed dew which called to mind the image of an oriental garden.

His viscera were removed, and his remains, properly speaking, were laid on an elegant palanquin or hanging bier, highly perfumed; around which, and through the apartment, odorous oils were burning.

I have also eaten the savoury fruits growing on thee, and have slated my thirst with draughts of perfumed water oozing from thy body.

And he was fanned with a Chamara perfumed with celestial scents.

And moved by affection, the slayer of Vritra, consoling Arjuna, touched his beautiful face with his own perfumed hands.

Once or twice they came to the hospital in the bright spring weather where new blossoms on azalea and jasmine perfumed the fields and flowering peach orchards turned all the hills and valleys pink.

She shook out the perfumed folds of her dressshe smoothed the fine white lace.

The next minute saw him seated in the cool, shady boudoir, where the mellow light came in, rose-filtered through the silken blinds, and the perfumed air was sweet.

" From beneath the white silken folds peeped a tiny embroidered slipper; a jeweled fan lay near her, and with it she gently stirred the perfumed air.

The wind stirred her perfumed hair until it touched his cheek, the leaves of the crimson roses fell in a shower around her.

Why could I not love, forgetful of the harsh ticking of the clock in the perfumed silence of the chamber?

He takes you by the arm, by the hand, he leans towards you, his words are caresses, his fervour is delightful, and to hear him is as sweet as drinking a smooth perfumed yellow wine.

Robert Buchanan is ours, only in the adaptation Scotch gruel has been substituted for perfumed yellow wine.