It begins with a brawl in an opium den and the revelation of the Chalice of Everlasting fire: That chalice had lived upon the spice-scented breezes for centuries. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-04-18] Reference
Most wearying of all are the aggressive teenage faux guides, who, touting their services, can turn a stroll down a spice-scented lane into an excursion as tranquil as a stint of trading on the fl oor of the New York Stock Exchange. From Wordnik.com. [Going Coastal] Reference
Breathe in that frosty, spice-scented air once again-it's Clientele time. From Wordnik.com. [Paste Magazine] Reference
Little India's spice-scented shops gleam with silverware, brassware, gold jewellery, silk sari, bargain electronics and culinary delights such as curry served on a banana leaf. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to India gold buying poor; trader wait price drop] Reference
Pilsen -- the mural-laden, Latino-populated neighborhood on the city's Lower West Side -- has been a place of artistic innovation (and fabulous, spice-scented taquerias) for some time. From Wordnik.com. Reference
One of Singapore's most fascinating cultural hubs, Little India's spice-scented shops gleam with silverware, brassware, gold jewellery, silk sari, bargain electronics and culinary delights such as curry served on a banana leaf. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to India gold buying poor; trader wait price drop] Reference
I’m not really living in one place since quitting my job in NYC a year and a half ago, I’ve been doing a lot of travelling and staying in various places, so I can’t have a specific little nook where I do all my work, though if I did have one I would try to make it as glamorous as possible, filled with chaise lounges and spice-scented candles and all kinds of sparkly accoutrements. From Wordnik.com. [Book Chick City] Reference
Then downstairs, the cook had come up in her evening brown print and clean collar, from her warm spice-scented kitchen, to remark cheerily that "Lor bless his heart, what with all these telegrafts and things, time flew so fast nowadays that they'd be having him back again before they all knew where they were!" which had a certain spurious consolation about it, until one saw that, after all, it put the case entirely from her own standpoint. From Wordnik.com. [Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers] Reference
Memories of the golden hours spent in threading the flowery maze of the vast Archipelago, seem a mere handful of shells gathered on the surf-beaten shores, but if even the empty shell can hold the sound of the waves, this brief record of a cruise in sunny seas may also convey faint whispers of that syren voice which echoed through the ages of the past, and still allures the spellbound listener to the swaying palms and spice-scented bowers of Malaya's. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
Meleager made it, and wrought out this gift as a remembrance for noble Diocles, inweaving many lilies of Anyte, and many martagons of Moero, and of Sappho little, but all roses, and the narcissus of Melanippides budding into clear hymns, and the fresh shoot of the vine-blossom of Simonides; twining to mingle therewith the spice-scented flowering iris of Nossis, on whose tablets love melted the wax, and with her, margerain from sweet - breathed Rhianus, and the delicious maiden-fleshed crocus of Erinna, and the hyacinth of Alcaeus, vocal among the poets, and the dark - leaved laurel-spray of Samius, and withal the rich ivy-clusters of. From Wordnik.com. [Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology] Reference
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