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Example sentences for "rosewater"

Lexicographically close words:
rosery; roses; rosette; rosetted; rosettes; rosewood; rosier; rosiest; rosily; rosin
  1. Frontlets are well known to every good wife, rosewater and vinegar, with a little woman's milk, and nutmegs grated upon a rose-cake applied to both temples.

  2. Sift a pound of flour, and put it with a pound of sugar and eight eggs well beaten, add a little rosewater or essence of lemon, bake it fifteen or twenty minutes.

  3. The air was rich with the aroma of roses as servants passed shaking rosewater on the guests from long- necked silver decanters.

  4. It was ornamented with green lapis lazuli scales and fitted with seven spouts shooting thin streams of rosewater outward into a large basin.

  5. Yes, the Sufis still keep rosewater here, in memory of Akman.

  6. It is full of rosewater to bathe thy face, for the water of the desert here is brackish, and harsh to the skin, because of saltpetre.

  7. The Sidi ordered enough rosewater to last till Ghardaia, in the M'Zab country.

  8. Rosewater tempts to many culinary sins in the East; and Europeans cannot dissociate it from the idea of a lotion.

  9. However, if a guest is to be honoured, rosewater must often take the place of the pure element, even in tea.

  10. An exceedingly garrulous old woman came to the door, invited us in, and superintended our devotions; at the end of which she sprinkled rosewater upon my face.

  11. The rosewater biographer of Diane de Poitiers, Madame de Pompadour, and Madame du Barry would naturally disparage the representative of Science and Revolution.

  12. It is an Oriental saying, that a cistern of rosewater will become impure, if a dog be dropped into it; but an ocean of rosewater with Rebel Slavemongers would be changed into a vulgar puddle.

  13. Then strain it from the seeds, and add to it as much Rosewater as will make it of a pleasant taste, then hang in your Bottle a little Ambergreece, and put in some Leaf-Gold; this is a very fine Cordial.

  14. An ordinary Rice-pudding is much improved by adding some rosewater to it before it is baked.

  15. Thirty drops of the tincture should be mixed with a wineglassful of rosewater for making this lotion, which may be used several times in the day.

  16. Then make it up with the white of an Egg, a little Butter, Rosewater and Sugar; Ice it over and put it into the Oven, and let it stand one whole hour and a half.

  17. Not but that Rosewater is the world in little.

  18. Beside it was a comfortable chair which he took possession of and looked out into the wild old garden so different from the excessively cultivated plots of Rosewater and his own meagre strips.

  19. Otherwise they might not meet again for months, now that Mr. Gwynne has settled down to his studies and hasn't been near Rosewater since Monday.

  20. A fisherman was sailing up to Rosewater with his catch.

  21. And Rosewater to me is a mere market for chickens and eggs.

  22. There is, no doubt, some wholly commonplace explanation of Mr. Gwynne's passing through Rosewater on her horse this morning.

  23. I should have to send her in to Rosewater every night and get a second girl to keep her company.

  24. And then I stood for I do not know how long before the alcove next to the old woman beside the exit, not knowing whether I were turned to stone or sitting by the Rosewater marsh indulging in some wild morbid flight of imagination.

  25. When white, beat three eggs, and stir them into the butter and sugar, together with three tea-cups of sifted flour, and rosewater or essence of lemon to the taste.

  26. When melted, beat the ingredients with rosewater until cold.

  27. When hot, stir in white wine until it curdles--add rosewater or essence of lemon to the taste, and turn it into cups.

  28. Yet hardheaded "captains of industry," financiers who pride themselves upon their cool-headed and keen-sighted business ability are dropping millions into rosewater philanthropies and charities that are silly at best and vicious at worst.

  29. The monks scattered a little rosewater over our hands, and we left this gloomy abode of the dead-alive in the desert.

  30. A faint smell of rosewater pervades the chapel, mingled with an odour of stale incense.


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