"Fragrancy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... walked across to his fire and, kneeling down, carefully raked away the ashes. Then he drew out a damper—Norah had never seen one before, but she knew immediately that it was a damper. It looked good, too—nicely risen, and brown, and it sent forth a fragrance that was decidedly appetizing. The old man looked pleased "Not half bad!" he said aloud, in a wonderfully deep voice, which sounded so amazing in the bush silence ...
— A Little Bush Maid • Mary Grant Bruce
... feel that I had never been alive before, and the people of the old seaport, active as I had thought them, became in a bewildered retrospect as slow and quiet as snails. But far sweeter to me than the fragrance of peaches were the humid whiffs I breathed from the noisy press rooms in the Park Row basements, the smell of the printers' ink as it was received by the warm, moist rolls of paper in the whirring, clattering presses. There was history in the making, destiny at her loom. ...
— Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) - Authors and Journalists • Various
... comes of study may quicken our understanding of the greater; and there is something more moving and pathetic in their survival, as of flowers from a strange land: white violets gathered in the morning, to recur to Meleager's exquisite metaphor, yielding still a faint and fugitive fragrance here ...
— Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology • J. W. Mackail
... a great man or woman, to have a name whose odor fills the world with its fragrance, is to bear with [10] patience the buffetings of envy or malice—even while seeking to raise those barren natures to a capacity for a higher life. We should look with pitying eye on the momentary success of all villainies, on mad ambition and low revenge. This will bring us ...
— Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 • Mary Baker Eddy
... for me tonight, That from thy lips like petals white, Thy words may fall and at His feet Bloom for His path with fragrance sweet! Pray, little child, that I may be Childlike in innocence like thee, And simple in my faith and trust Through all the battle's heat ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter
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