Word: fragrant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Where mountain dews their fragrant sweets distil...
...Their fragrant petals close...
...that vegetable described by a recent writer on food and dietetics as "possessing a low nutritive value." Let me call attention to the patience and perseverance of this turnip. Again and again has it left our tables untouched; again and again has it reappeared to tempt us with its fragrant smell. Poor disappointed turnip! Is no one strong enough to carry it forevermore away? At Vassar College, I am assured, the sufferings of this poor vegetable would be short indeed. It is a custom there for the chief cook (or his deputy perchance) to examine the tables after every meal...
...Through fragrant woods, whose boughs were locked o'erhead...
...fragrant flowers, dewy with the spray...