incense

• On this there is being offered incense, which is said to be added to the prayers of all the saints. —  Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation
• Great quantities of the gum from which the incense was made were placed on board, and also thirty-one of the incense sycamores, their roots carefully surrounded with a large ball of earth, and protected by baskets. —  Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt
• The elegant gamester discovers his cards and his companions; the garrulous find listeners; the gossip retails, and imbibes, from a hundred sources, all the current scandal; vanity finds incense--beauty adoration; the young make love, or dance, or in groups give their spirits play in pleasantries, and raillery, and peals of animated laughter; their elders listen to the music, or watch the cards, or in a calmer fashion converse; while all, each according to his own peculiar taste, find whatever pleases their palate best. —  The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
• Nor gave The Trojans gifts less worthy than they took To hold his incense, they a vase present The royal priest; a goblet, and a crown Shining with gold, and bright with sparkling gems Thence, mindful that the Trojan race first sprung From Teucer's blood, tow'rd Crete their course they bend But long Jove's native clime they could not bear The hundred-city'd isle now left behind Ausonia's port they hope to gain. —  The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I ; II
• However, if appearance of strange fishes after an earthquake be more pleasing in the sight, or to the nostrils, of the New Dominant, we faithfully and piously supply that incense--An account of the occurrence at Singapore was read by M. de Castelnau, before the French Academy. —  The Book of the Damned

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