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Example sentences for "jasmine"

Lexicographically close words:
jarred; jarring; jars; jarvey; jas; jasmines; jaspers; jaundice; jaundiced; jaunt
  1. To the left are His Majesty's baths and on the right, projecting out over the river, is the Jasmine Tower of Queen Janahara.

  2. The balcony where he now stood jutted out from the fort, supported by thick sandstone columns, and from his position he could look along the side of the fort and see the Jasmine Tower of Queen Janahara.

  3. A fanfare of drums sounded faintly from the ramparts of the Red Fort, and for a moment the morning sun seemed to glow even brighter against the gleaming panels of the Jasmine Tower.

  4. From a low latticework window down the east side of the Red Fort, past the Jasmine Tower and many levels down the Khas Mahal, it was just possible to see the center of the plaza.

  5. He wondered nervously why she had summoned him to the Jasmine Tower the minute he left the English feringhi.

  6. They swept over the heavy battlements at the river gate and then veered precisely upward, along the sheer eastern wall of the fort, until they reached the gold minaret atop the Jasmine Tower, the private quarters of Queen Janahara.

  7. The balcony of the Jasmine Tower was empty, the servants all ordered back to the zenana.

  8. An ample porch jutted from the main building, and this was covered with ivy, as the windows were with jasmine and honeysuckle; while seats were ranged inside the porch covered with many a rude initial and long-past date.

  9. The jasmine here, there the vine clustered over the threshold, not so wildly as to testify negligence; but rather to sweeten the air than to exclude it from the inmates.

  10. The so-called jonquil is made thus:-- Spirituous extract of jasmine pomade, 1 pint.

  11. Jasmine and patchouly produce a novel aroma, and many others in like manner; proportion and relative strength, when so mixed, must of course be studied, and the substances used accordingly.

  12. Luxuriant above all, The jasmine throwing wide her elegant sweets.

  13. The extract of jasmine enters into the composition of a great many of the most approved handkerchief perfumes sold by the English and French perfumers.

  14. The "extract of jasmine" is prepared by pouring rectified spirit on the jasmine pomade or oil, and allowing them to remain together for a fortnight at a summer heat.

  15. When the flowers of the Jasminum odoratissimum are distilled, repeatedly using the water of distillation over fresh flowers, the essential oil of jasmine may be procured.

  16. The scent of the jonquil is very beautiful; for perfumery purposes it is however but little cultivated in comparison with jasmine and tubereuse.

  17. The jasmine oil thus produced is the Huile antique au jasmin of the French houses.

  18. Occasionally our party adjourned to the coffee-house built in his garden, where, under the shelter of a delicious rose and jasmine bower, we spent the interval between dinner in all the luxury of idleness, smoking and drinking sherbet.

  19. From the jasmine or orange flower, it floats with its odorous burthen along the current, and lays all its perfume at the foot of Stamboul.

  20. The sweetness of the Land of Flowers Upon his lonely grave she laid The jasmine dropped its golden showers, The orange lent its bloom and shade.

  21. Did land winds blow from jasmine flowers, Where Youth the ageless Fountain fills?

  22. I discovered yesterday that the gentleman has planted a jasmine in a wooden box painted red!

  23. Why, Signor Maironi has the finest jasmine in the whole Valsolda, my dear sir!

  24. Thus, in the most natural way possible, did the Commissary presently discover that the famous jasmine had not yet blossomed.

  25. Jasmine and honey-apple bore the banner: Pātal the quiver, rows of ashoka trees the arrows.

  26. The unblown jasmine of the early spring Cannot appease the hunger of the lusty bees: There cannot be a happy ending of a sinful deed-- Be not so rash, when you ought rather hesitate.

  27. The East Indian oil of jasmine is a compound largely contaminated with sandalwood-oil.

  28. An essential oil is distilled from jasmine in Tunis and Algeria, but its high price prevents its being used to any extent.

  29. In Catalonia and in Turkey the wood of the jasmine is made into long, slender pipe-stems, highly prized by the Moors and Turks.

  30. The house was a mean one, but jasmine and marjoram and pinks and roses grew outside of it, and love grew inside.

  31. Thus marjoram and jasmine and pinks and roses grew at the foot of its walls, and it was these sweet flowers which had first caught the eyes of Israel.

  32. The winds blew laden with the fragrance of the jasmine and trumpet-flower, and seemed like the hot [394] sighs of the cardinal points on account of the departure of spring.

  33. Scarcely had the first rays of light filtered through the interlacing branches of jasmine and wavered into the room, when Nisida dressed herself hurriedly, and went as usual to present her forehead to her father's kiss.

  34. And down we dropped into fifty fathoms of the sweetest twilight imaginable,--so sweet it seemed to have been born of a wilderness of the night-blooming cereus and fed forever on jasmine buds.

  35. As she did so, he saw, with a curious throb at his heart, that her wrists were fettered to each other by long trailing chains of scented jasmine flowers.

  36. The title prolonged itself abnormally, and Akbar Khan, a mask of toothless smiles, darted, in instant assumption of his anticipated office, to remove a fallen jasmine flower from Dr.

  37. With the gentlest grace, he held out to her the single jasmine blossom.

  38. Those odorous boon In jasmine bowers, Or under the linden tree!

  39. The jasmine and the trees hanging with gray moss--perfectly weird-looking--have been the least luxuriant places in the interim.

  40. The woods are filled with flowers, yellow jasmine covering all the trees, etc.

  41. I wish you could see a large marble table in the parlour, where I am writing, with a pyramid of jasmine in the centre and four large plates full at the corners, almost covering the square, all sent me Saturday.

  42. The yellow jasmine is still in bloom and perfumes the atmosphere.

  43. Mentally Stafford shrugged his shoulders as he said to himself: "If Jasmine wanted to know where he was, she'd find out.

  44. Suppose that in the shock of discovery Jasmine should throw everything to the winds, and lose herself in arrant egotism once more!

  45. Jasmine rose from the desk and came forward with a paper in her hand.

  46. Jasmine took a step forward with a smothered cry, but Alice Tynemouth laid a hand on her arm.

  47. Jasmine asked, and the words came from her in gasps.

  48. Jasmine rose and embraced her friend, and Lady Tynemouth subsided into a chair with a sigh.

  49. These Jasmine gave with a smiling openness and apparent good-fellowship, which were not in the least compromising.

  50. He had not said that Rudyard was dead, that the Book of Rudyard and Jasmine was closed forever.

  51. Jasmine takes a lot of getting over," answered Jasmine's father.

  52. In one way or another he put all this to his fellow officers, and said that the existence of two such patriots as Byng and Jasmine in one family was unusual.

  53. Jasmine made up her mind then to marry him, .

  54. Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.

  55. They sate to sup in a jasmine bower, Lit pale with flies of fire, Their bowls the hue of the iris-flower, And lemon their attire.

  56. Sweet as a larder to a mouse, So to him staring down, Seemed the small-windowed moonlit house, With jasmine overgrown.

  57. Find out, Karnapūraka, whether the mantle is perfumed with jasmine or not.

  58. It is adorned with strings of jasmine garlands that hang down and toss about like the trunk of the heavenly elephant.

  59. This friend of mine does n't even draw a flowering jasmine creeper to himself, to gather the blossoms, for fear that a twig might perhaps be injured.

  60. Instead, she placed a bunch of jasmine as her shoulder-brooch, and extinguishing the light went forth to meet her husband by the sun-dial.

  61. From the villa doorway passed out Mistress Pen wick in fluttering white, with the waxy jasmine upon breast and hair.

  62. The breath of honeysuckle and jasmine and day-lilies and tuberoses drifted slowly up in the first stirring wind.

  63. Aurelian tossed the glowing end of his cigarette out through the jasmine leaves, watching it fall like a scarlet star.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jasmine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.