"Patchouli" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Patchouli? Margot? Say, what kind of females do you play around with? My girls drive their own four-in-hands and wear ...
— Skippy Bedelle - His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete - Man of the World • Owen Johnson
... go up to Mademoiselle Mirah's rooms, Monsieur le Baron, you will find Mademoiselle Heloise Brisetout there—and Monsieur Bixiou, Monsieur Leon de Lora, Monsieur Lousteau, Monsieur de Vernisset, Monsieur Stidmann; and ladies smelling of patchouli—holding a housewarming." ...
— Cousin Betty • Honore de Balzac
... deadline. Never, I believe, in those times when almost daily the Argonaut-laden boats were sailing for the Golden North, was there one in which the sporting element was so dominant. The social hall reeked with patchouli and stale whiskey. From the staterooms came shrill outbursts of popular melody, punctuated with the popping of champagne corks. Dance-hall girls, babbling incoherently, reeled in the passageways, danced on the cabin table, and were only held back from licentiousness by the restraint of their ...
— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service
... no exotic rare, A common flower found everywhere; In form 't is somewhat like the pink, But its scent is finer, I declare, Than musk, or your patchouli. You 've guessed it now, I really think, So I'll refrain from wasting ink. Sweet Will, I am Yours truly, ...
— Stories of Many Lands • Grace Greenwood
... then a cloud of towzled hair under a black crape bonnet vanishes down the platform, and Mrs. Roche is left alone, with the pieces of torn cardboard and the scent of patchouli ...
— When the Birds Begin to Sing • Winifred Graham |
