odorous

Example Sentences

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Odorous, for there were a great number of pink roses about.

From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by Cabell, James Branch

"Odorous flower, whose voice is like a flute, listen to me!" implored the woman of Ramses.

From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Curtin, Jeremiah

Odorous substances have occasioned syncope, stupor, nausea, vomiting, and sometimes death.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

Hail, O Prophet! on this feast day Odorous balsams, fragrant resins Here we bring—and offer garlands, Throwing flowers down before thee, And before thy much-loved sister, Who has found her rest beside thee.

From Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Complete by Ebers, Georg

Aye, and the gentleness of youth, That seems some hill-side sown with flowers, Odorous, as if with budding truth, Shoots into wild fantastic bowers.

From Poems by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)