ambrosial

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A phrase out of some translation of the Iliad came to his head: "Ambrosial night, Night ambrosial unending."

From Three Soldiers by Dos Passos, John

"Citizens and townsmen, the Gregorian form of worship, this great progress, is opposed in Italy to the Ambrosial ritual, and in Spain to the Mozarabic ceremonial, and has achieved its triumph over them with difficulty."

From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor

Rising from my kind bed of thick-strewn leaves, A fragrance the astonished sense receives, Ambrosial, searching, yet retiring, mild: Of that soft scene the soul was it? or child?

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

Ambrosial has its proper meaning,—pertaining to the immortals.

From Minor Poems by Milton by Milton, John

From these delightful fountains flow Ambrosial rills of pleasure; Can man desire, can Heaven bestow, A more resplendent treasure?

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles