lavender-water

“What do you think of his giving me eighteenpence yesterday, and a bottle of lavender-water for Mimarann?”

Burlesques 2006

All that he would condescend to do, was to take a few dozen of lavender-water from us in the course of the year, and to send his servants to be cut and shaved by us.

Burlesques 2006

“What do you think of his giving me eighteenpence yesterday, and a bottle of lavender-water for Mimarann?”

Cox's Diary 2006

Let him go and get a pair of well-wadded black silk stockings, and pull them over those horrid shanks; put a large gown and bands over beard and hide; and pour a dozen of lavender-water into his lawn handkerchief, and cry, and never make a joke again.

Roundabout Papers 2006

The profession I would urge (upon a person duly qualified to undertake it) has, I confess, at the first glance, something ridiculous about it; and will not appear to young ladies so romantic as the calling of a gallant soldier, blazing with glory, gold lace, and vermilion coats; or a dear delightful clergyman, with a sweet blue eye, and a pocket-handkerchief scented charmingly with lavender-water.

The Fitz-Boodle Papers 2006

All that he would condescend to do, was to take a few dozen of lavender-water from us in the course of the year, and to send his servants to be cut and shaved by us.

Cox's Diary 2006

“What a fine odor of lavender-water!” said Dawdley, as we rode in the carriage.

The Fitz-Boodle Papers 2006

And all he wanted, no doubt, was money — to keep him in cigars and lavender-water!

In Chancery 2004

A faint reek of cigars and lavender-water not smelt since that early autumn night six months ago, when she had called him

In Chancery 2004

Papa bathing her temples for her with lavender-water, or running errands for her like a servant — at things like these Emmy clenched her fist, and averted her tell-tale eyes.

The Way Home 2003