Presently I espied a horse, black as night at its darkest, girt and bridled and saddled with red gold, standing before two mangers of white crystal, one full of winnowed sesame and the other of rose-water flavoured with musk.
Then she poured in oil of sesame and waited till it was hot, when she put in the fish.
Through suffering we have learned the open sesame to the hearts of each other.
A compulsory addition of a small amount of sesame oil to all margarine, therefore, affords an absolutely certain means of recognising the margarine subsequently.
A far more satisfactory substance than any of these was found in the oil derived from sesame seed.
Money is the open sesame to everything," rejoined Sidney Graham, delightedly scenting an opening for a screed.
I don't deny that there are people among us who make money the one open sesame to their houses," said Mrs. Henry Goldsmith, magnanimously.
All I can say is that I think that "Sesame and Lilies" is a good book, for after all a book must be judged by its effect.
Sesame and Lilies" had the effect of sending me back to the single violet whenever I was inclined to admire the camellia japonica or any other thing that was artificial, or distorted from beauty or simplicity.
But somehow or other, probably because it appealed more to everybody, it was always possible to find a copy of "Sesame and Lilies" at an old book stand.
It has always seemed to me that "Sesame and Lilies" would not have been conceived by Ruskin if he had not heard well an echo of "The Following of Christ.
Other works of this practical period are Time and Tide, Fors Clavigera, Sesame and Lilies, and the Crown of Wild Olive.
The first thing we notice in Sesame and Lilies is the symbolical title.
Sesame the Cat She lived with a nice man, a candy man, and she was at the gate watching the cattle go by and the men were digging under some caramel bricks and he called Sesame the Cat and she came banging and almost jumped on the man's head.
Their tickets of admission proved an open sesame through the military and all other barriers, and a few moments before the opening of the ceremonies, these women found themselves within the precincts from which most of their sex were excluded.
Theophrastus and Dioscorides say that the Egyptians cultivated a plant called sesame for the oil contained in its seed, and Pliny adds that it came from India.
Chinese works seem to show that sesame was not introduced into China before the Christian era.
They may have received it with the name from Babylonia, where Herodotus says[2111] that sesame was cultivated.
The seeds of sesame often sow themselves outside plantations, and more or less naturalize the species.
He also speaks of a sesame wild in Egypt from which oil was extracted, but this was probably the castor-oil plant.
Sesame has long been cultivated in the hot regions of the old world for the sake of the oil extracted from the seeds.
Sesame has two races, the one with black, the other with white seed, and several varieties differing in the shape of the leaf.
Rumphius gives three names for the sesame in these islands, very different one from the other, and from the Sanskrit word, which supports the theory of a more ancient existence in the archipelago than on the continent.
While she was unwrapping her sesame bagels, smoked sturgeon, and cream cheese with chives, she got an earful.
As she bubbled on, I found my attention wandering to Rachel, who'd just escaped from the crew keeping her in the kitchen and was running through the living room, singing a song from Sesame Street.
These, going ashore in the island of Samos, were by the Samians taught to sit as suppliants in the temple of Diana, where they preserved them, setting before them for their food sesame mingled with honey.
Callicrates and Myrmecides are said to have made chariots that might be covered with the wings of a fly, and to have engraved verses of Homer on a sesame seed.
Each year some Open Sesame is spoken, And every decade drops its master-key.
Beltani knelt near the door-way, grinding sesame in a mortar.
Fortunately, at this juncture, Bazuzu came down-stairs to say that the sesame boiled, the dates were cooled, and the jar of beer had been set out on the roof.
Sesame and Lilies," the first volume of these "collected works.
They ate bread, they heated the [sesame wine], 135.
A banquet was prepared, and the gods attended, and having met and kissed each other they sat down, and ate bread and drank hot and sweet sesame wine.
What can you make of a mind that can appreciate and enjoy the incomparable beauty of Sesame and Lilies, and yet can conceive so hidden and treacherous a means of destruction?
The oils expressed from the sesame seed or the earth-nut (arachis oil) are also frequently admixed with olive oil.
The chief productions of the province are cotton, corn, sesame and wool, which are largely exported.
A beautiful book, and one profitable to those who read it carefully, is “Sesame and Lilies” by John Ruskin.
The pile was well heaped up of beams of wood steeped in spirit distilled from sesame grain; in the midst they placed Kun-dgah the painter, and with the melody of every solemn-sounding instrument they set fire to the pile.
The Queen returned home, and, believing in the promise of the hermit, she boiled the earth in sesame oil in a new porcelain vessel, when behold it was changed into barley porridge; but she neglected to eat up the whole of it.
And all the people were assembled round the pile of wood steeped in spirit distilled from sesame grain, in the Wood-carver's field.
Then he fared forth leaving with me the sample of sesamein his kerchief; and I went the round of my customers and ascertained that every Ardabb would fetch an hundred and twenty dirhams.
So I desire thou baulk me not in what I am about to say to thee: twice have I eaten of thy food and I wish to give thee as a present the monies for the sesame which are by thee.
How to read that we may gain this complete mastery of words, Mr. Ruskin has best told us in "Sesame and Lilies.
Much sesame was grown for the manufacture of oil; cotton was also cultivated, and the neighbourhood was a fair example of the wonderful capabilities of the entire country that was allowed to lie in idleness.
So saying, she began to take the sesame out of her hole and carry it forth and lay it back upon the rest.
So the hind sought of one of his comrades sesame to be husked by way of healing the sick man; and, when a measure thereof was given to him, he carried it home to his wife and bade her dress it.
No entrance here for the rank and file even of the fashionable world, and no open sesame for women whom the haughty dames of the French aristocracy do not put upon their visiting list.
Cannes is lovely,--far lovelier than Nice in its natural scenery, but Cannes is cold to tourists, dull for those who have not the open sesame to its charmed social circle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sesame" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: grass; oats; wheat
