Word: fragrant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...minds, when a horrid noise re-echoes from the wall, rolling from story to story with wild clamor; at last it dies away, and when silence reigns again we gasp, with dismay, "What on earth was that?" "That," says Snodkins, taking his cigarette from his lips, and blowing fragrant little rings of smoke into the air, "that is a man who bought a drum before the election, and who practices it yet; sounds rather loud in the well, doesn't it?" Loud, we should rather say it did; does he hake any more noises like that, we want to know...
...ideal Oriental Paradise concluding his description with a humorous satire on the misadventures of an Oxford professor of Arabic who in imagination has been transferred to the heaven of his studies and there meets with the author, as described in the following All the land is misty and fragrant with the perfume of the softest Latakia, and the gardens are musical with the bubbling of countless naghiles; and I must say that to the Christian soul which enters that paradise the whole place has, certainly, a rather curions air, as of a highly transcendental Cremorne. There could be no doubt...
...dear to the older residents of our ancient town for many reasons; and now because it somewhat obscures the glories of the new and expensive legal nursery, it is doomed to join the shadowy procession of abolished landmarks-the old Hancock mansion in Boston, our beloved chestnut tree of fragrant memory, and many another precious relic of departed days...
...continued and meritorious services should have earned them by this time a pension and retirement from all active service on half-pay, so that they might spend the rest of their days cropping the tender grass of some bleak New England pasture, or nibbling from well-kept stalls the fragrant...
Some years ago, while Mr. R. H. Dana was running for Congress against Gen. Butler, there was a dinner at Parker's (in the large room, No. 6, fragrant with the memory of many a symposium), and a young gentleman was seated between Judge E. R. Hoar and Mr. Dana. There was a general discussion upon the merits of the candidate, which reached back and forward. This young gentleman - younger then than now - listened and gradually grew merry with the thought of the perturbation which the planetary orb of Butler was producing in the political system...