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

"Well, then, let it be so," said Monte-Cristo sternly, as he took a greenish, strongly smelling pastil from a box cut from an opal.

From The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I by Lermina, Jules

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

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)

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

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas