The hedge with its sweet-scented blossoms of snow. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
Now O, sweet-scented Companions of the Crimp, and Brethren of the. From Wordnik.com. [Skiddoo!] Reference
Have you ever noticed the sweet-scented wall flowers growing on an old stone wall?. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles] Reference
Finland's wild flowers are renowned, and the hay is full of sweet-scented blossoms. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
These sweet-scented flowers bring happiness, faithfulness, love, and good friends. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
There were showers of sweet-scented flowers, and the sound of shells and kettle-drums. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
We had traveled in search of verdant meadows, brawling streams and sweet-scented woods. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
But this is another plant -- a tree that bears a sweet-scented fruit not unlike the lemon. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
Rose leaves, mignonette, and sweet-scented clover, make fine perfumes, managed in this way. From Wordnik.com. [The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner] Reference
On the breath of a sweet-scented breeze they were wafted far to southward -- to the summer land. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Birds] Reference
Milt aint no sweet-scented geranium but's out fer all the simoleons he can pick off the little old. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man for Himself] Reference
But because mosquitoes drink dew, they may have a preference for artificially sweet-scented bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Are Some People Mosquito Magnets?] Reference
Nora and Jessica, who had been hovering about the room, now came over to see the sweet-scented box. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
It grows wild in the southern states, and is cultivated for its sweet-scented, dull, reddish flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
Bhimasena's journey to Gandhamadana at the request of Draupadi (in search of the sweet-scented flower). From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
He arose from his seat, and followed the strains down between the sweet-scented myrtles to the entrance-gate. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
And yet this is the sweet-scented assassin who prates of "honor," and is sometimes known as "the noblest Roman of them all!". From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
He slept in a bower in a rose garden, and nowhere in the world are the roses so magnificent and so sweet-scented as in Persia. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
Little rosebuds, fresh though late, and dainty bells, with sweet-scented geraniums and drooping heaths, -- a pure and innocent bouquet. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
The meadow foxtail and sweet-scented vernal would be left out entirely, and some six or eight pounds added to the Timothy and red clover. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
The house and grounds were thronged with noted guests, strolling amid sweet-scented flowers and lemon trees hanging with rich golden fruit. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference
A balmy, sweet-scented wind, downy as the breeze of a dream, blew gently along the grass and tingled against Northwood's skin refreshingly. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
Venusta, passed in laden with fruit and flowers, great clusters of sweet-scented blossoms falling from the basket as she raised it from her head. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
But this flower has no perfume, and a honeysuckle without perfume is a base pretender, to be cast out of the family of the real sweet-scented honeysuckle. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
I was up on the bank lying full length on the sweet-scented grass, gasping in company with my first salmon caught, played, and landed on an eight-ounce rod. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
The iron roof of the cottage came into view and the row of tall pines that stood like grim sentinels between the two-rail fence and the sweet-scented garden. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
Then the wealth of roses and sweet-scented, old-fashioned flowers of all sorts, mixed here and there with their more modern sisters, made it a perfect dream of delight. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Robin] Reference
Here is the sweet-scented vernal grass; taste and see how pleasant it is; it is the grass which, perhaps more than any other, gives that charming odour to the hayfields. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
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