Perfumes
[pə:fju:mz]
Examples
- This Parisienne was always in debt; her salary being anticipated, not only in dress, but in perfumes, cosmetics, confectionery, and condiments. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green; and shed her richest perfumes abroad. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Can you not smell the perfumes blowing from the land? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- There was too much reason to think that he and Eustacia both were for ever beyond the reach of stimulating perfumes. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- No perfumes, Brummell used to say, but very fine linen, plenty of it, and country washing. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And, after all, I found their natural smell was much more supportable, than when they used perfumes, under which I immediately swooned away. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
Editor: Nancy