flagrance

Example Sentences

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“Kim Dotcom was so successful, and he was well known for his flagrance, and his sports cars, and his racing cars, and style of life, that he was made an easy target” Wozniak said.

From Salon • Jul. 11, 2012

R, how must his peturnle art have bet, as these Budds, which he had nurrisht, bust into buty, and twined in blooming flagrance round his pirentle Busm!

From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace

She knows to an inch the degrees of flagrance officially permitted to the attached and the unattached!

From Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Diver, Maud

Through the rigour of winter we had been brought now to the very flagrance of the dog-star, to the time when human nature can pretend no opposition to the mood of the lordly sun.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

He had been prepared for many things, but he had not been prepared for that, for the publicity, the flagrance of it.

From The Return of the Prodigal by Sinclair, May