30 examples of scentless in sentences

And what a world of mystery, of feeling, of associations there was in that scentless and withered rose-bud!

The Wallachians, "have a superstition that every flower has a soul, and that the water-lily is the sinless and scentless flower of the lake, which blossoms at the gates of Paradise to judge the rest, and that she will inquire strictly what they have done with their odours."

She thus writes on this point in The Ministry of Song: "Poetry is not a trifle, Lightly thought and lightly made; Not a fair and scentless flower, Gaily cultured for an hour, Then as gaily left to fade.

But if your meadow should be outside the forest reserve, and the sheep have been there, you will find little but the shorter, paler G. Newberryii, and in the matted sods of the little tongues of greenness that lick up among the pines along the watercourses, white, scentless, nearly stemless, alpine violets.

But how all the beauty of the singing morning became a scentless flower when, on making the earliest possible call, he was met at the door with that hollow word, 'Away'a word that seemed to echo through long rooms of infinite emptiness and turn the daylight shabbytill the addendum, 'for the day,' set the birds singing again, and called the sunshine back.

Flowers almost scentless, solitary, semi-double, and of a bright and showy crimson.

The cinnamon tree or bush is planted in rows; it attains at most a height of nine feet, and bears a white, scentless blossom.

The latter was the source of most of his sufferings; for, being so exceedingly sensitive, even the most scentless things made him sick.

She made you think at once of nothing so much as heart's-ease,a garden heart's-ease, that flower of many names; not of the frail, scentless, wild wood-violet,she had been cultured to something larger.

Later in the year come the beautiful blue violets, which are, I am sorry to say, scentless.

But from her own garden she had chosen a scentless blossom of a kind which Red Perris had never seen before.

The very breath of the pure, scentless winter air was to come back to her nostrils in after years.

I was told that, en revanche, they were scentless, but I still regret that I could not get at one of them to try.

* * Blossomthat the west wind Has never wooed to blow, Scentless are thy petals, Thy dew is cold as snow!

The garden, with its poor pale scentless autumn flowers, had a dreary look under the dull gray sky.

As scentless lilies in the loving air, Be they delightedthou in them delight.

I still must save This flower scentless, without colour, From off my manhood's early grave!

It was as invisible as the wind, as scentless as a star, as complete as birth or death.

"Go madbut not from much learning," answered the youth for himself; "or you would find him like a dried geranium-leaf hid in the leaves of the year-books, 'Where thy mates of the garden lie scentless and dead.'

(Butea Frondosa).A handsome but scentless white flower.

The flowers are yellow, in clusters, and scentless.

This is all I can findall the scentless first-fruits of the baby year.

He felt that he would do well to mistrust it and he almost regretted having admitted, among the scentless plants, this orchid which evoked the most disagreeable memories.

That would argue a lack of poetry in herself, and such a lady would be like a scentless rose.

Here a great rose and here a ragged tare; And here pale, scentless blossoms without name, Robbed to enrich this poppy formed of flame; Here springs some hearts'ease, scattered unaware; Here, hawthorn-bloom to show the way Love came; Here, asphodel, to image Love's despair!

30 examples of  scentless  in sentences