Here from Indo China and the Indies came spices and aloes and sandalwood, nutmegs, spikenard and ebony, and riches beyond mention.
I will beseech the kings of England and of Spain for a ship and a ship's company, and the silk and the spices and the wealth shall be theirs.
Toscanelli sent him a copy of a letter he had written shortly before to King Alfonso of Portugal on the same subject, in which he said: “I have formerly spoken of a shorter route to the places of spices than you are pursuing by Guinea.
Their dreams,” Professor Fiske tell us, “were of the marble palaces of Quinsay, of islands of spices and the treasures of the mythical Prester John.
His beams, on thy tender young cheek as he plays, Will give it a blush that no other can raise; Thy fine silken petals they 'll softly unfold, And fill their pure centre with spices and gold.
The spices from thy bosom flow As freely round thee now, As if withheld an hour ago.
Hold not so high from me thy radiant mouth, Fragrant with all the spices of the South; Nor turn, O sweet!
Borneo is the chief of the Sunda group, is extremely fertile, producing all sorts of tropical fruits, and various spices and drugs.
This island is equally fertile with the other Moluccas, and produces spices of all kinds, but particularly cloves and nutmegs.
Ma'jun is the extract from the intoxicating plant called charas or bhang, a species of hemp; it is mixed with sugar and spicesto render it palatable.
Rub the butter and flour well together, and add the spices and sugar.
Whisk the eggs very light, stir in the sugar, and about half the flour, spices and lemon; then add the salaeratus, and as much more flour as will make a soft dough.
Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, whisk the eggs well, and stir the whole together, add gradually the liquor, spices and flour.
Beat the eggs till they are very thick and light, and add enough milk to form a batter--stir in the eggs, then the spices and salt, and lastly the fruit.
Boil all these spices in the vinegar, and pour it, boiling hot, over the pickles.
Heat the vinegar, liquor, and spices together, and pour it hot over the feet.
Mace, nutmeg, and cloves may be stewed with this sauce, if spices are preferred.
Break the ginger and nutmegs in pieces, bruise the pepper a little, and put the spices into the vinegar just before it boils.
Stir the butter and sugar to a cream; beat the eggs light and add to it, then the flour; add the spices and liquor; beat it well.
Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, whisk the eggs very light and add to it; stir in the spices and rose-water, then the flour.
This, with a few spices thrown in, made three hogsheads of good beer, meet for a poor man who had only forty pounds a year.
At the last-named they found such abundance of spices that they came straight back to Malacca without visiting Ternate, as had been intended.
Much use was made of spices in preparing meats and gravies, and also for flavoring wines.
Lisbon, the capital, formed the chief depot for spices and other eastern commodities.
Rival vessels fought for the spoils and carried off the booty like common pirates; and the Genoese traders in their anger seized Sturmys’ ship on its return voyage and robbed it of its cargo of spices and green pepper.
Through these two great companies England first exchanged her wool for certain necessaries such as salt and fish and iron and wood, and for a few luxuries such as spices and silks from the Levant.
The malediction of my Malayan friends has come to pass, for I have no doubt the Russian caravans which supply that empire with tea, silks, and spices introduced the cholera, or gave it into the bargain, or as bona mano.
It is sent by Nemesis, a fitting retribution for the gold and spices we have robbed them of.
When tossed upon the blaze of forest branches, these fragments emitted an odour sweet as oriental spices and their flames brightened with prismatic tints.
Joseph caused his body to be honourably prepared (for burial), To be washed, richly anointed, And with spices to be scented.
They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
She gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.
Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?
His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes.
She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
I would go myself, but I am getting too old, and besides, I must begin to gather my spices and make my dying nest.
He plucked a golden feather from his breast, and lighted the nest of spices on which he reclined.
A servant from the Forest Mill had gone to fetch wine from the Roessleswirth, and sugar and all sorts of spices from the grocer.
She had incautiously wished that there should be poison in all the spices he bought from the grocer, and in all the wine from Roessler's Inn.
To be sure, he could not find any spicesor valuable drugs, but the air was full of fragrance and the trees and herbs were strange in aspect and might mean anything; so for a while he was ready to take the spices on trust.
Vast resources would be needed for such work, and from Cipango with its gold-roofed temples, and the nameless and numberless isles of spices that crowded the Cathayan seas, he hoped to obtain them.
The words at the beginning of the letter lend some probability to this view: "I have formerly spoken with you about a shorter route to the places of Spices by ocean navigation than that which you are pursuing by Guinea.
On the 3d of June, at some point on the Cuban coast, probably near Trinidad, the crops of several doves were opened and spices found in them.
I have formerly spoken with you about a shorter route to the places of Spices by ocean navigation than that which you are pursuing by Guinea.
Two generations of men lived and died while this question was taking shape, and all that time Cathay and India and the islands of Spices were objects of increasing desire, clothed by eager fancy with all manner of charms and riches.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
