white-scented

Updated: May 7, 2025

It was late in the morning when she woke from her long-deferred slumbers; and when she went downstairs, she found Mr and Miss Benson awaiting her in the parlour. That homely, pretty, old-fashioned little room! How bright and still and clean it looked! The long jessamine sprays, with their white-scented stars, forced themselves almost into the room.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Ruth

It is not only such contradictions as lie on the surface the squalor of some filthy fondâk, the emaciated raw-skinned donkeys, the bent-backed women, rubbing shoulders with the white-scented robes, the sleek mules, the luxurious tiled houses these a blind man could see: the under-currents which will puzzle an Englishman more the longer he lives there are known to those only who have dwelt much in Morocco, and they belong by every right to a life which is drawn to the letter in "The Arabian Nights."

Isabel Savory - In the Tail of the Peacock