A small bag of violet-scented candies from a shop on the Rue de Rivoli. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Madwoman—Simenon, Georges - 100]
Within five minutes, he was in the softly shaded, violet-scented room where. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
It was Gila's violet-scented missive over which she had wept those angry tears. From Wordnik.com. [The Witness] Reference
He is no match for me, she promised, wiping his brow in cool, violet-scented water. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
Never did the old violet-scented glove that lay for so long in the inmost recess of my drawer procure me so sweet an emotion. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
To-day, this glorious spring day when the violet-scented air held a hint of summer's warmth in its breath, Toni was making holiday. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Soul] Reference
Bleached palm oil, olive oil, castor oil and lard are also employed in the production of special milling soap bases, a palm oil soap being specially suitable for the production of a violet-scented toilet soap. From Wordnik.com. [The Handbook of Soap Manufacture] Reference
Like most simple things, they are difficult to do well, and violet soliflores are haunted by Victorian ghosts dabbing their pale foreheads with violet-scented handkerchiefs, while they recover from another fainting fit. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
Miss Temple had been aware (from the husky, insistent, violet-scented breathing) that her aunt had lingered on the opposite side of her door through the day of her (as she now thought of it) Dark Retreat, but she wanted no part of that conversation either. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]
Another man once insisted on purchasing a cake of violet-scented soap for a rupee. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Footprints] Reference
Then, rising quickly, she again read the violet-scented missive, written on the finest parchment. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
There entered then, in a violet-scented little whirl, Miss Gina Berg, rosy with the sting of a winter's night, and, as usual, swathed in the high-napped furs. From Wordnik.com. [Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It] Reference
On our weekly excursions we'd buy a few dishes or tea-towels, and sometimes luxury items like violet-scented talcum and Jergen's Hand Lotion, or a coloring book for me. From Wordnik.com. [Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News] Reference
Going up in the elevator, the old man was ushered by a maid into a violet-scented little nest whose pale green walls were touched discreetly with hangings of heliotrope. From Wordnik.com. [The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation] Reference
And when she asks him if he has thought of her during the night, he has to answer that her violet-scented handkerchief awoke him many times, that the wakings were delicious. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of My Dead Life] Reference
Clematis, with head lowered close to Flopit's, perceived something peering at him from beneath the tangled curtain of cottony, violet-scented stuff which seemed to be the upper part of. From Wordnik.com. [Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William] Reference
It was several weeks later that Mrs. Clinch once more brought the plebeian aroma of heated tram-cars and muddy street-crossings into the violet-scented atmosphere of her cousin's drawing-room. From Wordnik.com. [The Descent of Man and Other Stories] Reference
Clematis, with head lowered close to Flopit's, perceived something peering at him from beneath the tangled curtain of cottony, violet-scented stuff which seemed to be the upper part of Flopit's face. From Wordnik.com. [Seventeen] Reference
At dinner time that evening I managed to elude Barrett, and upon going to the lobby desk for my mail, found a violet-scented envelope addressed to "Mr. James Bertrand" in a handwriting that I remembered only too well. From Wordnik.com. [Branded] Reference
My new friend of the violet-scented breath hung back a little, then after looking at me demurely for a minute or two, like a child that chooses a new playmate, came softly up, and, standing on tiptoe, kissed me on the cheek. From Wordnik.com. [Gulliver of Mars] Reference
It lay there, all snowy white, with a violet-scented sachet on the top of it, a sachet (Winny had found it in the drawer) with a pattern of violets on a white satin ground and the name "Violet" sprawling all across it in embroidery. From Wordnik.com. [The Combined Maze] Reference
For myself I am well contented here to remain and sleep, -- no better couch can the Poet have than this violet-scented moss "-- and he waved his arm with a grandiloquent gesture, --" no grander canopy than this star - besprinkled heaven!. From Wordnik.com. [Ardath] Reference
He saw again the group in the dim, violet-scented drawing-room, the handsome languid woman murmuring her pleasant commonplaces, and the pretty child lecturing the prodigal dog, and still felt the warm light touch of Mabel's hand as it had lain in his for an instant at parting. From Wordnik.com. [The Giant's Robe] Reference
And he hoped and prayed with all his heart that every individual letter would be printed with crimson ink on a violet-scented page and would fairly reek from date to signature with all the joyous, ecstatic silliness that graces either an old-fashioned novel or a modern breach-of-promise suit. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Make-Believe] Reference
"It gives me great pleasure —" The loud and continued applause that ensued deprived me of the last vestige of self-possession, and I was only half-conscious of being rushed down the steps, along the arcades and being shoved pell-mell into the front door of the fair sender of my violet-scented, cream-tinted note. From Wordnik.com. [The University of Virginia] Reference
Complicated, but light, transparent, and innocently immodest was the dress of his daughter, tall and slender, with magnificent hair gracefully combed; her breath was sweet with violet-scented tablets, and she had a number of tiny and most delicate pink dimples near her lips and between her slightly-powdered shoulder blades. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentleman from San Francisco] Reference
A heavy sleep, still holding the violet-scented handkerchief to his lips. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Chance] Reference
Moving from strength to strength in the ’80s, by the wit of his pen and sweat of his violet-scented brow, Wilde’s plays reached the stage, and to wild success. From Wordnik.com. [The Dandy | Edwardian Promenade] Reference
14%vol, Argentina (£9.95; Wine Society 01438 741177), a violet-scented beauty, full of velvety bramble fruit. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Down the violet-scented ways. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Plays and Playwrights] Reference
Breathing the violet-scented gale. From Wordnik.com. [Elegies and Other Small Poems] Reference
"They are violet-scented," Aggie explained. From Wordnik.com. [More Tish] Reference
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