You find seductive fancies in the wreathing mists, the light embroidered veils which Nature dons like a coy maiden, in this atmosphere where she perfumes for her spousals the greenery of her tresses.
But my daughter, for whom during the last two years Seraphita has shown much affection, has never heard this music, and has never perceived the heavenly perfumes which, they say, make the air fragrant about her when she moves.
Celestial perfumes softened the granite hardness of the rocky scene; light endowed with speech shed its divine melodies on the path of him who looked to heaven.
Standing up, she shook the glistening shroud about her while it seemed to drop perfumes and to spark out passion.
That night Gorlois sat in a room hung with black velvet, where a brazier held a dying fire, and a bowl thereon steamed up perfumes in a heavy vapour.
The dying Antony begged Cleopatra to scatter perfumes on his tomb and cover it with Roses; and both Greeks and Romans were desirous of having their graves bedecked every year with the fragrant flowers.
Perfumes and flowers play an important part in the poetry of India, and the Jasmine, which Hindu poets call the "Moonlight of the Grove," has furnished them with countless images.
Volleys of Rose-water and other perfumes were also discharged by means of syringes.
The Egyptians made great use of it as a principal ingredient in the perfumes which they so lavishly consumed for religious rites and funeral honours.
The light does not bear away terrestrial perfumes into the azure depths, without knowing what it is doing; the night distributes stellar essences to the sleeping flowers.
The flower-beds accepted the legitimate royalty of the lilies; the most august of perfumes is that which emanates from whiteness.
How he contemplated, with despairing ecstasy, that convent garden, full of ignored flowers and cloistered virgins, where all perfumes and all souls mount straight to heaven!
What particularly struck him was the almost religious solemnness of the entrance, the heavy hangings, the mystic gleams of the stained-glass, the old furniture steeped in chapel-like gloom amidst scattered perfumes of myrrh and incense.
Then they chatted together amidst the heat and glare from the gas and the intoxicating perfumesof all the flowers which were heaped up in the little room.
Ye Zephyrs haste; from every flower The sweetest perfumes take; And bear them hence to Chloe's bower; For soon the maid must wake!
Rooms were scented with fragrant perfumes and hung with tapestries of great price and varied bloom.
O monarch, I hope trusted servants have been employed by thee to look after thy food, the robes thou wearest and the perfumes thou usest.
And having presented perfumes and jewels and gems of various kinds by thousands as tribute, they waited at the gate, being refused admission into the palace.
And attacking with their mighty arms that immovable and huge and high and old and celebrated peak always worshipped with perfumes and floral wreaths, those heroes broke it down.
He has evidently been forced to copy the catalogues of commercial travellers dealing in perfumes and soaps, teas and liqueurs, to scrape together his erudition in current prices.
He smelt the warmth of her body, inhaled the odour of her perfumes .
Its sole result has hitherto been childish declamation, with coloured lights and changing perfumesas accompaniments, and atavistic games of shadows and pantomimes, nor will it produce anything more serious in the future.
Naturally, instead of good odours, he prefers the perfumes which affect the healthy man as stinks.
It was Saturday night and Broadway was thronged--with men eager to spend in pleasure part of the week's wages or salary they had just drawn; with women sparkling-eyed and odorous of perfumes and eager to help the men.
In passing from Alexandria to Rome it lost much of its limpid purity; the clear crystal of the drink was mixed with flavours and perfumes to fit the palate of a patron or an emperor.
Garlands beside they weare upon their browes, Made of all sorts of flowers earth allowes: From whence such fragrant sweet perfumes arise, As you would sweare that place is Paradise.
Miss Dare listened with an expression of superiority not unmixed with patience, and then she enlightened him as follows: "All you have been saying is perfect stuff--excuse the vulgarity of the expression.
So Carrington began, and all listened closely, for, as a Virginian, he was supposed to know much about the subject, and his family had been deep in the confidence of Washington himself.
The King wipes off the perfumes from his visage with his hand.
By their indolent gait and the perfumes which exhale from them, Antony knows they are ladies of patrician rank.
I will clothe you, I will flingperfumes over you, I will pick out your hairs.
Apollonius--"We are going to the South, behind the mountains and the huge waves, to seek in the perfumes for the cause of love.
Then came a twilight when the sweet rain fell, and on the heavy air the perfumes of the fields floated.
The walls were hung with rare and beautiful skins; the very floor made rich with huge bear robes, their permeating odors subdued by heavy perfumes brought, like the spices, from St. Louis.
There came a day when Hartington, sitting upon the portico, where perfumes of the budding clover came to him, hated the humming of the happy bees, hated the rustling of the trees, hated the sight of earth.
The very air was laden heavy with exotic perfumes from the flowers which were everywhere.
To Michigan, Florida perfumes shall tenderly come, Not the perfumes of flowers, but sweeter, and wafted beyond death.
We quote briefly on this point: "The halls were scented with perfumes and the courts strewed with odoriferous flowers, which were distributed in profusion among the guests as they arrived.
Their intention was to go to the sepulchre before sunrise on the following day, in order to strew these flowers andperfumes over the body of their beloved Master.
The woman was a vendor of aromatic herbs, and Nicodemus had purchased many perfumes which were necessary for embalming the body of Jesus from her.
The sight filled her with inexpressible joy, and she immediately rejoined the holy women, who were busily employed in preparing the perfumes and spices.
The dressing-table was littered with Bohemian glass and gold-stoppered bottles, and all the perfumes of Araby represented by Breidenback and Rimmel.
There were some moments of silence, while the dark eyes of the dying man thirstily dwelt on the beauty of the flowers, and his dry, ashen lips seemed to drink in their perfumes as those athirst drink in water.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perfumes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
