Word: scented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here the controversialists missed a point. The hounds Dean Bratenahl blessed scrambled off not after a fox but after a little scent bag in a drag hunt...
...tale is of Kaoru and Niou, two princes of noble blood, and their affairs with Agemaki and Kozeri, Prince Hachi's lovely daughters. Kaoru is an exceptional youth with such a natural fragrance that even at a distance people can smell his "hundred-step scent." Niou, who carries no such natural musk, tries to emulate his friend by becoming an expert mixer of perfumes. But Niou's personal life, dedicated to endless amours, is not so savory. Kaoru. with heavenly leanings, leaves women and the court alone...
...novel Puritan's Progress (1931) Author Train credited U. S. Puritans with having a sense of mirthless humor that is a kind of coal-tar derivative from their "keen scent for the fumes of Hell." In contradistinction to this darkling humor he sets "gaiety, the most comprehensive of virtues, for it signifies faith, hope, charity and courage." In Princess Pro Tern he tosses all four ingredients generously into the potboiler, serves up a book that, whatever its faults...
...tops of red milkweeds and thistles, will flee if approached by man. The smell of the female is exceedingly nauseating. The blue butterfly smells like "newly stirred earth in spring or crushed violet stems." The lesser sulphur exudes the fragrance of dried sweet grass. The orange clover's scent resembles heliotrope. If a cloud obscures the sun it at once seeks a resting place, preferably on something yellow. It is very social. The cloudless clover smells of violets and musk, the cabbage butterfly of mignonette and sweet briar, the yellow swallowtail of "certain brands of honey biscuits." The milkweed...
Many perfumes, especially the heavy or oriental scents, are in themselves mildly anesthetic. They paralyze the olfactory nerves of the user so that she becomes indiscreet in the quantity that she uses, else she cannot perceive any scent at all: while those, unaccustomed to it, forced to endure her propinquity, experience far from pleasant effects, even to the extent of losing all relish for dinner. A hint that might be taken up by those desiring to reduce: a good strong whiff of certain scents will still pangs of hunger...