"Throw open the door of the boudoir, Aminadab," said Aylmer, "and burn a pastil.". From Wordnik.com. [The Short-story] Reference
Maximilian embraced his friend and swallowed the pastil. From Wordnik.com. [The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I] Reference
` ` Throw open the door of the boudoir, Aminadab, '' said Aylmer, ` ` and burn a pastil. ''. From Wordnik.com. [The Birthmark] Reference
After well beating in a mortar, the pastils are formed in shape with a pastil mould, and gradually dried. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants] Reference
"Well, then, let it be so," said Monte-Cristo sternly, as he took a greenish, strongly smelling pastil from a box cut from an opal. From Wordnik.com. [The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I] Reference
The product of the combustion of charcoal is inodorous, and therefore does not in any way interfere with the fragrance of the pastil. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants] Reference
Now a well-made pastil should not develope any odor of its own, but simply volatilize that fragrant matter, whatever it be, used in its manufacture. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants] Reference
The use of charcoal in a pastil is merely for burning, producing, during its combustion, the heat required to quickly volatilize the perfuming material with which it is surrounded. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants] Reference
It was his wont to paste up long altar-pieces of Liana's charms, charms which her father had sought to enhance by means of delicate and almost meagre fare, by shutting up his orangery, whose window he seldom lifted off from this flower of a milder clime -- until she had become a tender creature of pastil-dust, which the gusts of fate and monsoons of climate could almost blow to pieces. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction] Reference
A pastil. ". From Wordnik.com. [Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories] Reference
It would make the reader pity me, or rather laugh at me, to tell how many awkward ways I took to raise this pastil; what odd, misshapen, ugly things I made; how many of them fell in, and how many fell out, the clay not being stiff enough to bear its own weight; how many cracked by the over violent heat of the sun, being set out too hastily; and how many fell in pieces with only removing, as well before as after they were dried: and, in a word, how, after having laboured hard to find the clay, to dig it, to temper it, to bring it home, and work it, I could not make above two large earthen ugly things (I cannot call them jars) in about two months 'labour. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Volume 1 With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe, Written By Himself, in Two Volumes] Reference
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