A nectarous drink. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
And as they open their luscious petals on my skin, they reveal their nectarous, honeyed nature. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
Blue crab with apricot sorbet and Japanese vinaigrette espuma an interesting play between the sweet meat, the zing of yuzu in the foam, the nectarous sorbet, and the briny crab roe. From Wordnik.com. [Current Affairs] Reference
I don't smell saffron in Evening Edged in Gold, but I do get a lot of cinnamon, which I think goes wonderfully well with the nectarous, ripe quality of the flowers and which enhances the balmy, comforting feel of the woody base. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
With its sumptuous bouquet of sunny neroli, ripe, nectarous rose and jasmine and sweet, powdery violet and iris, and a languid, expansive feel of the composition, Baghari stays true to the grand and insolent spirit of the rest of the Piguet collection. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
Rosine Le Fruit Défendu (1914) was true to its name, exactly as I would imagine a mythical forbidden fruit to smell like: an indolent, creamy, sinfully sweet aroma of nectarous, over-ripe fruits (apples? plums? maybe even bananas?) enriched further by a buttery floral accord (ylang-ylang? tuberose?) with an almost coconutty undertone. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
And make the teeming hive with nectarous sweets to swell. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor] Reference
Corn is velvety smooth, nectarous and wonderfully adorned with lush lump crabmeat, fresh. From Wordnik.com. [Home/News] Reference
This fast speed allows for the fastest juice processing times with the greatest amount of nectarous juice produced. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
The affliction of Phelim was now succeeded by joy as tumultuous as it was unfeigned: and so often did he quaff the nectarous fluid of strong, home-brewed ale, to the health of his master, and the long-life and happiness of the noble Mr. Harrington and his beautiful lady, that Phelim, when he accompanied the Reverend Edward Marsham to the cottage, was completely intoxicated. From Wordnik.com. [Romance Readers and Romance Writers: a Satirical Novel] Reference
306: Of nectarous draughts between, from milkie stream. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost (1667)] Reference
By my faith! ... when I heard the noise of quarrelsome contention jarring the sweetness of this nectarous noon, methought I was no longer in Al-Kyris, but rather in some western city of barbarians where music is but an unvalued name! ". From Wordnik.com. [Ardath] Reference
My parched being with the nectarous feast. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Poems] Reference
Of nectarous draughts between. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
On all the multitude a nectarous dew. From Wordnik.com. [Endymion A Poetic Romance] Reference
Your tired brows in a nectarous sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Georgian Poetry 1916-17 Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh] Reference
Your tired brows in a nectarous sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Georgian Poetry 1916-17 Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh] Reference
My parched being with the nectarous feast. From Wordnik.com. [Ballad of Reading Gaol] Reference
A stream of nectarous humour issuing flowed. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost: The Sixth Book] Reference
The roof of awful richness, nectarous cheer. From Wordnik.com. [Keats: Poems Published in 1820] Reference
In Pholus caverndid as nectarous draughts. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus on Cape Cod] Reference
My parchèd being with the nectarous feast520. From Wordnik.com. [Charmides] Reference
Where nectarous flowers their sweets distil. From Wordnik.com. [Georgian Poetry 1920-22] Reference
In Pholus 'cavern -- did as nectarous draughts. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus, translated into English Verse] Reference
My greedy thirst with nectarous camel-draughts. From Wordnik.com. [Endymion A Poetic Romance] Reference
Exhaling from the meadows; the nectarous breath. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
Where nectarous blossoms wove a shrine of shade. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Poetry Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems.] Reference
Of nectarous draughts between, from milky stream. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost] Reference
(nectarous) Tj. From Wordnik.com. [Romance Readers and Romance Writers: a Satirical Novel] Reference
And now it is deluged with a nectarous flood -- the young germs swamped -- delicious poison cankering them: now I see myself stretched on an ottoman in the drawing-room at Vale-Hall at my bride Rosamond Oliver's feet: she is talking to me with her sweet voice -- gazing down on me with those eyes your skilful hand has copied so well -- smiling at me with these coral lips. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. II.] Reference
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