attar

Example Sentences

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They wore gloves and hats, and smelled to high heaven of attars, perfumes, eaus, and bath powder.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

Superfine invigorator; bold illuminator of the dim spaces of the brain; originator of the glow! which distils its rarest attars!

From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths weave a saraband.

From The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets by Various

In 1880 you felt as soon as you turned up the Quadrant that anything you might buy therein would certainly be dear; the very stones and stucco exuded costliness and the essential attars of luxury.

From Far Off Things by Machen, Arthur

Don't you love heavy fragrances, faint with sweetness, ravishing juices of odor, heliotropes, violets, water-lilies,—powerful attars and extracts, that snatch your soul off your lips?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various