A pomander was made of "the maste of a sweet Apple tree being gathered betwixt two Lady days," mixed with various sweet-scented drugs and gums and Rose leaves, and shaped into a ball or bracelet.
The successor of the pomander was the Clove Apple, or "Comfort Apple," an Apple stuck solidly with cloves.
The gentleman to whom it belonged finding himself recognized left his seat, and a minute later Sir Charles Pomander entered Mr. Vane's box.
Pomander seized this opportunity of turning the conversation to his object.
By thisPomander learned nothing, because Mrs. Woffington had, with a wonderful appearance of openness, the closest face in Europe when she chose.
He was endeavoring to persuade her to let him be her companion until dinner-time (she was to be his quest), when Pomander entered the room.
My reader now guesses whom Sir Charles Pomander surprised more than he did Mrs. Woffington.
Well, Sir Charles Pomander said she married a third in two months!
She saw Pomander no longer; she was alone with her great anguish.
They crept up the stairs, Pomander in advance; they heard the signs of an Irish orgie--a rattling jig played and danced with the inspiriting interjections of that frolicsome nation.
Pomander laughed in his face; this laugh disconcerted him more than words; he spoke no more--he sat pensive.
Pomander cursed her ready wit, which had disappointed him of his catastrophe.
Parker has shown his range and skill in successful dramas so widely divergent as Rosemary, Pomander Walk and Disraeli.
Bennett and Knoblauch, or The Pigeon by Galsworthy, or Louis Parker's Georgian picture, Pomander Walk.
And my Lord Gambara sank back into his chair, languishing, the pomanderto his nostrils.
She fanned herself, and raised a scented pomander ball to her nostrils.
Selincourt's proffered arm, whilst her left hand, flashing with its array of rings, still held the sweet pomander to her face.
I will not dog my husband's steps at the bidding of his treacherous friend (watches Pomander out).
While speaking she has gone to the salver, and hastily taken the letters, which she offers Pomander with triumph.
Bandstrings, thy Ring, nor pomander cannot expiate for, dost thou tell me I should?
There is another vivid glimpse of the use of sassafras as a pomander when the pestilence was rife in Seville.
Beneath the braid and the pomander lay the sheet of paper on which Desire had written weeks before; the first page of that composition now pouring gold into my hands.
It is not the pomander that I should keep, nor the pomander that holds the powerful spell.
He shook his head, giving back the pomander with marked reluctance.
Whose gentle pity had brought this pomander to my pillow, to help me from that faintness which had followed my struggle with the Thing?
The rich fragrance of the gold pomander wrapped with it filled the air like a vivifying elixir.
At midnight I lay down in the dark, the pomander under my pillow.
I suggested, and leaned across to lay the pomander in his gnarled hand.
No better plan occurred to me than exhibition of the pomander with a vague story of wishing to return it to a young lady with red-gold hair.
For lack of familiar occupation, when I sat down in my favorite place, I took up the gold pomander and fell to studying the intricate designs worked in the metal.
I turned from the married lovers and made my way to the veranda, where I might be alone to consider the pomander whose perfume was like a diaphanous presence walking beside me.
In this atmosphere persisted a fetid smell of mold and decay, warring with the homely scent of coffee and the fragrance of the pomander beneath my pillow.
That evening, when I went to my room, lighted my lamps and closed my door, I stood alone for awhile breathing the mingled sweetness of the country air and the pomander ball.
On impulse, I offered the pomander to its nostrils.
II The bob of gold Which a pomander ball doth hold, This to her side she doth attach With gold crochet or French pennache.
Nay, you need not answer, I know where she keeps them,--in the pomander that hangs always at her chatelaine.
She would have worm a pomander in her hair, or on a chatelaine, if anybody had told her what a pomander was.
He himself carried a pomander of silver in the shape of an apple, stuffed with spices, which sent out a curious faint perfume through small holes.
It passed within a step of Inglesant, who was standing, wonderstruck, at the summit of the steps, his silver pomander in his hand.
There is a tradition that the builder had inherited a beautiful gold pomander of Venetian filigree and that the word struck him as being pretty and having an old-world flavour about it.
One morning the Walk had awakened to find him sitting at the corner where Pomander Creek empties into the Thames; sitting on an old box, with a dreadful tin vessel full of worms at his side; sitting fishing.
Pomander Walk was, in fact, one of the prettiest nooks near London.
A real, live lord was not an ordinary sight in Pomander Walk.
And all that time Pomander Walk has seen scarcely anything of her.
The sympathy of the enquirer forced the information from her that she had been sprightly and well, a picture of a woman, till she came to Pomander Walk.
Why it was called Pomander Walk is more than I can tell you.
Pomander Walk was not a good nursery for stratagems, she thought, little knowing how many plots and schemes and conspiracies had been concocted and were still seething all around her.
The pomander box, the favourite perfume holder of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries of England, was in the form of an apple, the perfumes and spices being made up like a ball.
From the pomander box smaller receptacles were evolved, and more elaborately prepared scents were kept in them.
She took off her waist where it hung to a brooch of feridets, her pomander of enamel and gold; she opened it and marked the time by the watch studded with sable diamonds that it held.
She set the jewel in her cap, the pomander at her side, the chain around her neck, the jewel at her breast.
The only modern French word for the pomander is cassolette.
I will have my pomander of most sweet smell, Also my chains of gold to hang about my necke.
Gold pomander case: enriched with brilliant blue, red, and translucent green enamel, and opaque white.
In many instances, the perfumes, instead of being mixed together into a ball, were placed in the pomander case each in a separate compartment, the lids of which are found inscribed with the names of the contents.
A fine pomander is seen in a portrait of a Flemish lady by Cornelis de Vos in the Wallace Collection, and one of extraordinary beauty is worn by a Dutch lady in a splendid picture by Frans Hals in the Cassel Gallery.
The other end terminates in a pear-shaped pomander 3½ inches long, and divided for the reception of different cosmetics into two parts, united by a screw from below.
Not infrequently the lady is shown, as in a picture by Gerard Douffet at Munich, holding the pomander in her hand.
My tears congeal'd to gumme, by peeces from me fall, And thee preserve from pestilence, in pomander or ball.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pomander" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: atomizer; censer; perfumer; pomander; potpourri; sachet; spray
