pastil

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The product of the combustion of charcoal is inodorous, and therefore does not in any way interfere with the fragrance of the pastil.

From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse, George William Septimus

Her ladyship rose, and taking a stick of Eastern pastil from a majolica dish in a corner made Nino light it from a wax taper.

From A Roman Singer by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

As for Tom Moore, some of his songs diffused an odor like a burning pastil.

From Earth's Holocaust (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The use of charcoal in a pastil is merely for burning, producing, during its combustion, the heat required to quickly volatilize the perfuming material with which it is surrounded.

From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse, George William Septimus

Stood there not behind the pulpit-stairs the sacristy-cabin, and in this was there not a church-library of consequence--no school-boy could have buckled it wholly in his book-strap--lying under the minever cover of pastil dust?

From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul