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Example sentences for "sachet"

Lexicographically close words:
sacerdotum; sach; sachant; sachem; sachems; sachets; sack; sackbut; sackcloth; sacke
  1. Solomon was the only man who ever had six hundred and ninety-nine alibis when one of his wives detected the fragrance of another woman's sachet on his coat lapel.

  2. How would you like to work her a handkerchief sachet in Hardanger Embroidery?

  3. You have now only to tie your two ends of ribbon in a nice bow, and Mother’s handkerchief sachet is complete.

  4. D’s little ribbon end is only tied to the centre, so that the sachet can be opened and closed.

  5. Turn in once and then tack ¼ inch all round, and hem it neatly to the counterpane, as you were shown how to line the sachet on page 39.

  6. Lay these all away, with a sachet bag or two, in some convenient drawer, and never take them out unless the baby is required to look very fine for a brief display to some friend.

  7. Opening the drawer he took from the sachet a handkerchief, and the framed photograph of Fleur.

  8. He approved of the sachet that Allie used, and he became acutely conscious of the jewels resting in the palm of his left hand.

  9. The name of this sachet has been handed down to us as being derived from a Roman of the noble family of Frangipani.

  10. Ground rose-wood is valuable as a basis in the manufacture of sachet powders for perfuming the wardrobe.

  11. The powder of orris root is very extensively used in the manufacture of sachet powders, tooth-powder, &c.

  12. Bundles of vitivert are sold for perfuming linen and preventing moth, and, when ground, is used to manufacture certain sachet powders.

  13. CEDAR WOOD now and then finds a place in a perfumer's warehouse; when ground, it does well to form a body for sachet powder.

  14. Dried fennel herb, when ground, enters into the composition of some sachet powders.

  15. When any of these herbs are dried and ground, they usefully enter into the composition of sachet powders.

  16. The perfumer uses musk principally in the scenting of soap, sachet powder, and in mixing for liquid perfumery.

  17. A little rose-scented sachet powder may be sprinkled on this cotton to add perfume to the blossom.

  18. Sometimes we find a tiny sachet rosebud sewed to the lining, or a little lace-trimmed pocket for the veil.

  19. The sachet is worked in crochet, the edging in knitting, for which the receipt will afterwards be given.

  20. I shouldn't particularly care to see missionaries clothed in sachet bags myself; the smell might drive the heathen to desperation.

  21. It is perhaps no proper part of this story to add, that its opening on the other side of the world was attended by the welcome and surprising fragrance of patchouli, emanating from a little silk sachet secreted among the more workaday gifts.

  22. Out of a pretty embroidered handkerchief, such as is sold in any shop, a combined sachet and handkerchief case is made by folding the four corners to the centre, embroidering scattered flowers and the word "Mouchoir" on the corners.

  23. So to end the nuisance he took that sachet wrapped in tissue paper, and put it in the round, japanned tin box where he kept his collars, and let his collars run loose about the drawer.

  24. That night he went home with her to Johnson's side door, carrying the sachet and the hot-water bag and the things his mother had given her.

  25. As she brought it out, the faint, delicate scent from the sachet pervaded the air and made Robin lift his muzzle from his paws and wrinkle his nose with little tentative sniffs.

  26. Turning over her few things she came upon a Christmas card shaped like a little book with a scented sachet inside.

  27. I brought the sachet up to the level of my nose, where it hovered for just a little moment before it slid off me and off the bed.

  28. The only way I got the better of the sachet was to balance it warily and pretend I slept.

  29. Instead of blankets there was a large white-satin perfumed, sachet with a cord sewed round it, completely covering the bed.

  30. I beg you also to take the small sum of money which is in the secretary, also a sachet of satin, inclosing a little cravat of orange silk, that you wore on our last Sunday walk, and gave me the day I left the Rue du Temple.

  31. I forgot the sachet inclosing the little orange cravat, which I have given him.

  32. Polly, glad she hadn't snipped up that very ribbon for little sachet bags.

  33. Well, I think it is a sachet bag, then," she said at last.

  34. An old sachet bag, when all the girls are making oceans of 'em!

  35. Beautiful holiday and birthday gifts can be made from these materials, such as mats, cushion covers, and sachet cases.

  36. This illustration showing examples of stitches for pile weaving illustrates the methods used in the stitches, and may be used for Axminster or Wilton rugs, for boxes, sachet cases, and other articles.

  37. The squares can be made up in cushion and box covers, sachet cases, sofa pillows, or the larger squares can be used as veil cases.

  38. Sachet cases made of a six or eight inch square, with four corners folded to the center, are attractive.

  39. There's something in the sachet that will bring you very good luck if you always keep it on where it can't be seen.

  40. Sachet unpinned, and refastened to the brocade lining of the tweed coat.

  41. Case opened; sachet pinned by a large pearl bar to the front of the thick white satin shirt.

  42. She slipped the ribbon over her head and tucked the sachet inside the soft folds of her Persian robe.

  43. Now so far one charm-sachet was accounted for.

  44. Golden did not recognize any similarity between this sachet of pink-and-mauve and the sun-faded ribbon trifle she had picked up on Biscay beach.

  45. Illustration: And there was nothing to tell them what it was, the sachet of the Disturbing Charm.

  46. So the destination of the third sachet was decided.

  47. She had stitched up the sachet before she had answered her own question, "Whom shall I give it to first?

  48. French people often do wear a sachet there, don't they?

  49. She drew the packet from her bosom; opened it with a hundred precautions; poured into the sachet a little--a very little!

  50. And, taking hold of the coat, she slipped the sachet full of the enchanted powder into the slit-like pocket at the waist where men keep tickets.

  51. She had cast round for the nearest bit of ribbon wherewith to garter herself securely, and had snatched it up from where it dangled on her dressing-table, hardly seeing which bit of pink ribbon it was with what satin sachet attached.

  52. It was the sachet into which she had sewn the Disturbing Charm.

  53. The aroma of new-sawn timber and sawdust began to be mingled with the feminine odour of sachet and flowers.

  54. The sweat stiffening the hair upon her back and loins, as it dried, gave off a penetrating, ammoniacal odour that mingled with the stale perfume of sachet and wilted flowers.

  55. The sachet carried my memory straight back to home, for it smells like your upper bureau drawer.

  56. Dominating it all is the clean clover sachet you sprinkled among the baby clothes.

  57. Camphor and oil of lavender were bought at the chemist's, and also a little scent sachet labelled 'Violettes de Parme'.

  58. Some smelt nice and some--the caraway seeds and the Violettes de Parme sachet among them--smelt worse than you would think possible.

  59. Then she covered up the pretty lady with a warm counterpane and a bearskin, and while doing so caught sight of the small silk sachet which was fastened round her neck.

  60. It is a memento of my poor mother," said Michal, pressing the silken sachet to her lips.

  61. Having finished her stitching, she put her little wicker-work basket aside on the chest-of-drawers and took out the handkerchief-sachet in which she kept all his letters.

  62. Your servants left no place unexplored The paths, the roads, the very woods were ransacked, But in vain, because all the while the orange sachet lay whole and unopened in my pocket.

  63. In the fragments of the sachet I found six smaller diamonds and a pair of rubies.

  64. In the orange-coloured sachet that you lost I believe that there were eighteen stones of great value?

  65. It was not a note, however, but a tiny orange-coloured sachet such as women carry in the bosom.

  66. Cocheforet left here at night with a little orange-coloured sachet in his possession.

  67. The sachet was found, torn open, many leagues from this place!

  68. I had torn the sachet into four pieces--four corners.

  69. This was the tiny orange-coloured sachet which Mademoiselle had dropped the night I first saw her at the inn, and which, it will be remembered, I picked up.

  70. How did Cunningham happen to have a sachet bag embroidered with his initials when Cora did not know him as Cunningham?

  71. Cunningham and a yellow satin sachet embroidered in blue!

  72. It was a tiny yellow satin sachet bag embroidered in blue!

  73. For answer he pulled from his pocket a small yellow satin sachet bag with the initials L.

  74. He also had a tiny sachet of yellow satin embroidered in blue and when I noticed it with some astonishment among his things he laughed in an embarrassed way and said a girl he knew had made it for him.

  75. Holding up his hand, he dangled before my eyes a tiny yellow satin sachet bag embroidered in blue, a satin sachet whose fragrance was the fragrance of Rose Jacqueminot!

  76. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if he owned one of those yellow satin sachet bags himself.

  77. As a clue, then, the fragrance of Rose Jacqueminot and the yellow satin sachet were as useless as the robber's chalk-mark.


  78. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sachet" 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