- a variation of pastille.
pastil
Example Sentences
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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 Nathaniel Hawthorne
After well beating in a mortar, the pastils are formed in shape with a pastil mould, and gradually dried.
From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by George William Septimus Piesse
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
"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 Jules Lermina
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 Thomas Carlyle
