jessamin

It was covered with a thick jessamin vine; and the mysterious, languorous perfume of its starlike flowers filled the narrow resting-place with the very atmosphere of love.

The Maid of Maiden Lane Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

And when I heard the rattle and grating of my sword against Zoheir's skull, something issued like the oil of jessamin.

Antar : 1820

The carpet is a fine broadcloth to match the sattin; upon which are worked with white silk, in close tent-stitch, so that it will not easily wear out, bunches of snow-drops; jessamin, and lilly-of-the-valley; finished with a handsome double border.

Vicissitudes in Genteel Life 1794

As an appearance of industry I think doubles the claim which the poor have to our compassion, I took out of her box a small sprig of jessamin, very naturally imitated, and asked the young woman if she made those flowers herself.

Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph 1767

For the myrtle, the eglantine, the jessamin, and all the smaller kind of aromatic shrubs and flowers, grew on all sides thick and spontaneously about us; and our feet brushed forth the sweets of the lavender, rosemary and thyme, till we arrived at the first, and peaceful hermitage of _Saint Tiago_.

A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777 Volume 1 (of 2) Philip Thicknesse 1755

The creeping jessamin thrusts her fragrant flowers;

The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05 John Dryden 1665

My dear father, said she, it is an apple, upon which is written the name of our lord and master the caliph; our slave Rihan [Footnote: This word signifies, in Arabic, basilic, an odoriferous plant; and the Arabians call their slaves by this name, as the custom in France is to give the name of jessamin to

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