How To Use Sweet-scented In A Sentence
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I do not suppose you will have any occasion to renovate the turf in any part of your park; but, if you should, the best way is to get a mixture of the seeds of several sorts of grasses, such as the fox-tail meadow grass (Alopecùrus praténsis), the sweet-scented vernal grass (Anthoxánthum odoràtum), the crested dog's-tail grass (Cynosùrus cristàtus), and other valuable kinds.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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Here along the Georgia colonial coast, Gregg Allman has a comfortable house on a verdant, sweet-scented stretch of land, with classic cars and motorcycles in the garage and a tree-lined open road not far from his front door.
Allman's Latest Blues Were a Source of Hope
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And I set her there in her favourite place, by the sweet-scented wood-fire; and she paid me porterage without my even asking her; and for all the beauty of the rain, I was fain to stay with her; until our
Lorna Doone
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The sweet-scented geranium abounded and so did the crowberry, which is a finer and sweeter kind than that which grows nearer the settlement.
Three Years in Tristan da Cunha
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Its quartz hills are covered with trees and gigantic grasses; the buaze, a small forest-tree, grows abundantly; it is a species of polygala; its beautiful clusters of sweet-scented pinkish flowers perfume the air with a rich fragrance; its seeds produce a fine drying oil, and the bark of the smaller branches yields a fibre finer and stronger than flax; with which the natives make their nets for fishing.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
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A most remarkable little ruddy blossom is that which we find on the sweet-scented shrub or Carolina allspice (Calycanthus lævigatus) from May to August.
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There was a vase of some attractive sweet-scented flowers of which Rachel did not know the name on the table.
COME AND BE KILLED
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She went to all the child's odd little haunts -- the grapery, the orchard, the corn-house, even to her own beloved back yard, full of sweet-scented hiding-nooks dear to a child, but sacred ground to Aunt
Rebecca Mary
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Across the street, Bellagio's Conservatory and Botanical Gardens was a lush and sweet-scented retreat.
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So I entered and found myself in a chamber strewn with sweet-scented herbs and with a curtain drawn across one corner, from behind which came a sound of groaning and grame, weak as from an emaciated frame.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Yellow and orange calendulas bloom through winter, as will pink and white English daisies and sweet-scented stock.
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When I was a youngster, my father and I would pile into his old A35 van, leave the grime of our little home town of Barnsley, and in 10 minutes be scrambling over rocks and tramping through sweet-scented heather.
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Hellebore -- the one-sided Pyrola, the Bladder Campion -- _silene inflata_, the sweet-scented yellow Mellilot, the white Yarran, the Prunella with blue labrate flowers the Yellow Rattle, so called from the rattling of the seeds.
Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present
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Besides, Herbert discovered towards the southwest point of the lagoon a natural warren, a slightly damp meadow, covered with willows and aromatic herbs which scented the air, such as thyme, basil, savory, all the sweet-scented species of the labiated plants, which the rabbits appeared to be particularly fond of.
The Mysterious Island
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In his essay, which contains many interesting details about the practical use of benzol, he speaks likewise of the possibility of soon obtaining the sweet-scented nitrobenzol in great quantity.
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants
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Great Ideas for a Romantic Dinner by Ron Zvagelsky [ 2006-10-24 ] A scrumptious dinner with some sweet-scented candles and flowers is really worth coming home to.
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Among their green robes may be seen thousands of beautiful wild-flowers, -- the sweet-scented laurustinus, all sorts of running vetches and wild sweet-pea, the delicate vases of dewy morning-glories, clusters of eglantine or sweetbrier roses, fragrant acacia-blossoms covered with bees and buzzing flies, the gold of glowing gorses, and scores of purple and yellow flowers, of which I know not the names.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
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Longzhong has hills on three sides with lots of trees including pinaster, cypress, sweet-scented somanthus and loquats.
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While trying to decide what piece of lingerie to put on, I added an extra step to his instructions and applied a sweet-scented lotion he had given to me for my birthday earlier this year.
The Reluctant Exhibitionist
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I bought sweet-scented, slender vanilla beans from the Antilles.
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At night, you can happen upon a fragrant moonflower vine covered with large, white saucer-shaped flowers or sweet-scented night-blooming jasmine.
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Near the ancient stepping stones that allow a crossing to the south bank in all but times of flood I sat on a rotting fallen trunk to marvel at the mature bird cherry, now in full, sweet-scented bloom, that marks the place of descent to the crossing point.
Country Diary: North Derbyshire
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At night, walking slowly through a starlit, stone-covered path, you can happen upon a fragrant moonflower vine covered with large, white saucer-shaped flowers or sweet-scented night-blooming jasmine.
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Yellow and orange calendulas bloom through winter, as will pink and white English daisies and sweet-scented stock.
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Among their green robes may be seen thousands of beautiful wild-flowers, -- the sweet-scented laurustinus, all sorts of running vetches and wild sweet-pea, the delicate vases of dewy morning-glories, clusters of eglantine or sweetbrier roses, fragrant acacia-blossoms covered with bees and buzzing flies, the gold of glowing gorses, and scores of purple and yellow flowers, of which I know not the names.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
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She will make the "bottle" of lavender by weaving satin ribbon through the stem "bars" of the "cage" that she has formed from the lavender tiges (the stems having been bent, one by one, back over the bundle of flowers, interning the lavender like so many sweet-scented prisoners).
Tante Marie-Francoise
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The conversation became at once professional after the briefest preliminaries, and he would stand twirling a sweet-scented sprig in his fingers, and make suggestive jokes, perhaps about her faith in a too persistent course of thoroughwort elixir, in which my landlady professed such firm belief as sometimes to endanger the life and usefulness of worthy neighbors. 3
Mrs. Todd
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I do not suppose you will have any occasion to renovate the turf in any part of your park; but, if you should, the best way is to get a mixture of the seeds of several sorts of grasses, such as the fox-tail meadow grass (Alopecùrus praténsis), the sweet-scented vernal grass (Anthoxánthum odoràtum), the crested dog's-tail grass (Cynosùrus cristàtus), and other valuable kinds.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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These were composed of the stimulating leaves of the "Aina," mixed with the long yellow blades of a sweet-scented upland grass; forming a hollow stem.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)
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Is it too late to talk about sweet-scented French broom?
Lettres de ma Terrasse
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Especially prized unusual plants such as crested sida, hairy wachendorfia, Norfolk-island lagunaea, prickly-leaved massonia, sweet-scented tritonia, and winged-podded sophora.
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Growing in bogs and low woods from Maine to Minnesota and Washington, southward to Georgia and Missouri, there is a sweet-scented, little yellow-and-brown flower called the yellow lady's-slipper, the plant of which is said to have the same effect when handled as poison-ivy.
On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls
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It was only at long last I regained the sweet-scented turf and was able to regain my feet – and confront the narrow but less arduous path leading back around the lake to safety.
Country diary: Lake District
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The line of her mouth reflects her smiling eyes: soft, content, free -- unlike those sweet-scented prisoners behind the lavender bars.
Tante Marie-Francoise
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Its quartz hills are covered with trees and gigantic grasses; the buaze, a small forest-tree, grows abundantly; it is a species of polygala; its beautiful clusters of sweet-scented pinkish flowers perfume the air with a rich fragrance; its seeds produce a fine drying oil, and the bark of the smaller branches yields a fibre finer and stronger than flax; with which the natives make their nets for fishing.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
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The only smell in there was from the sweet-scented stems of daphne in the glass on the table by the window.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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The rooms had rough-plastered white walls and double windows, and were heated with baroque tiled stoves burning sweet-scented pine chips.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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Additionally the floral cilium such as orchid, sweet-scented osmanthus, wintersweet can be held back and suck the float particle in sluggish air and soot.
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Yellow and orange calendulas bloom through winter, as will pink and white English daisies and sweet-scented stock.
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Then he looked at the garden and saw that it was full of jessamine and gilly flowers and violets and roses and orange blossoms and all manner sweet-scented blooms and herbs.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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When the wind would pick up the place would be awash in a warm, sweet-scented blizzard of cherry blossoms.
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Growing in bogs and low woods from Maine to Minnesota and Washington, southward to Georgia and Missouri, there is a sweet-scented, little yellow-and-brown flower called the yellow lady's-slipper, the plant of which is said to have the same effect when handled as poison-ivy.
On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls
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Sweet-scented petals falling from flowering trees in the mountains are said to give the Perfume River its name.
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Moreover in this garden were all manner of other fruits and sweet-scented herbs and plants and fragrant flowers, such as jessamine and henna and water-lilies407 and spikenard 408 and roses of every kind and plantain409 and myrtle and so forth; and indeed it was without compare, seeming as it were a piece of Paradise to whoso beheld it.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Yet here were beautiful Gûlistan roses (the exquisitely sweet little rose from which the attar is made), and English mignonette, and sweet-scented verbena and jasmine.
A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters
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Half-term and a sweet-scented, sun-drenched garden is an Agatha Christie-esque setting for tales of random murder.
Breaking news; The Reith Lectures; Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change?
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Here, too, we make acquaintance with the sweet-scented manuaka, the fragrant veronica, and the glossy-leaved karaka; this last is the pride of the Maoris.
Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands
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Yellow and orange calendulas bloom through winter, as will pink and white English daisies and sweet-scented stock.
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Chalices have been said to suddenly fill with sweet-scented oil.
The Fiddler in the Subway
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Confederate or star jasmine is a perennial evergreen with sweet-scented white blooms in late spring.
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The commercial triumphs he's nurtured include sweet-scented and rehydratable modelling clay.
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In five minutes that felt like an hour on a sultry, sweet-scented southern evening, McIlroy had fallen from the lead into a tie for seventh place.
Masters 2011: Rory McIlroy's bold charge turns into harrowing collapse | Richard Williams
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The only smell in there was from the sweet-scented stems of daphne in the glass on the table by the window.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
