AN ARAB LOVE SONG The bed of my love I will sprinkle with attar of roses, The face of my love I will touch with the balm, With the balm of the tree from the farthermost wood, From the wood without end, in the world without end.
Therewith into the golden bowl she poured The curds and milk, and on the hands of Buddh Dropped attar from a crystal flask-distilled Out of the hearts of roses; and he ate, Speaking no word, while the glad mother stood In reverence apart.
Now just before I find a cab for you, will you come and see my little 'home' and let me give you a bottle of the attar of roses I told you about in the train?
An ounce of true attar costs, even at Ghazipoor, 40 rupees (4 pounds).
But Ghazipoor is most remarkable for its enormous rose-fields, and the rose-water and attar prepared here.
We were offered sweetmeats and fruits, sprinkled with rosewater, and some attar of roses was put upon our handkerchiefs.
He told me that the long, slender gold-trimmed bottles filled with attarof roses came from the roots of the rose bushes--don't you remember?
The faint, indefinable scent of attar of roses was dimly to be discerned as a sort of background for the fragrant smoke.
The delicate sweetness filled the room and mingled with the faint scent of attar of roses and dried rose petals which, as always, hung about the woman who stood by the table, idly rearranging the flowers.
Attar of roses is a precious article, and a small vial of it is refreshing, when one is doomed to pass one's days in the closely-locked apartments of the harem.
But yet we would not have all the roses of life crushed and bruised in order to gain a few drops of the attar of roses, be they ever so consoling.
Atari is derived from atar or itra, attar of roses.
In the East Indies, the attar is obtained by stratifying rose leaves in earthen pans in alternate layers, with the oleiferous seeds of a species of digitalis, called gengeli, for several days, in a cool situation.
Essential oils are wrung: The attar from the rose Is not expressed by suns alone, It is the gift of screws.
I never heard of a rat that smelt like sandal-wood or attar of roses," said Bastin.
Hearing what had been done by Albuquerque at the towns upon the coast, Attar made great preparations for resisting the new enemy.
Finding this contrivance fail, Attar endeavoured to corrupt some of the Portuguese, and actually prevailed on five seamen to desert, one of whom had been bred a founder, who cast some cannon like those belonging to the Portuguese.
Albuquerque penetrated into this design, and desired Attar to send some one to him to receive the answer.
He there observed that Khojah Attar had completed the fort formerly begun by the Portuguese.
Attar however did not perform this promise, but endeavoured to spin out the time by a repetition of messages, in order to strengthen the fortifications of the city, and to receive farther supplies.
Seif Addin king of Orrauz and his governor Khojah Attar were now both dead, and Reis Hamet now possessed the entire favour and confidence of the new king.
She has a headache, but her smile is sweet, her hand cool, her atmosphere soothing and delightful, with the blinds down and an odor of attar of roses.
The genuine attar of roses is costly and it is frequently adulterated.
Hope was triumphant through the land, roses advanced to double their price; the attar was adulterated to meet the exorbitant demand, and nightingales were almost worshipped; but this could not last.
And she utters in a barely audible voice: "Attar of roses hath so goodly a smell!
Here, if thou wilt, on these arid sands, thou mayst find thy Garden of Omar, and even from the daily tasks which prick thee sorest mayst distil some precious attar to bless thee and thy fellow man.
That is the attar that will win for us a welcome wherever we go,--sympathy.
Here, if thou wilt, in these arid sands, thou mayst find thy Garden of Omar, and from these daily tasks that prick thee sorest distil some precious attar to sweeten all life!
It weighs but the weight of one rupee, but it took the sweetness of two hundred thousand roses to make the attar it contains, and so costly is it that only princes may purchase.
We walked about and conversed, were presented with attar of roses, and went home.
When we left Sir Salar, he presented me with four bottles of attar of roses.
At the end attar of roses was brought, into which little pieces of cotton, fixed on slips of bamboo, were dipped, and given to each person.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "attar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ambergris; ambrosia; attar; balm; balsam; essence; extract; musk; myrrh; parfum; perfume; scent
