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I saw that he loved to hear the old Breton songs sung in my sweet, piping little voice, and it was especially pleasant, our music over, to be rewarded by being given chocolate pastils from a little enamel box that stood on the writing-desk.

A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago 1919

He was mightily pleased that he had stopped in this place, for an agreeable smell of wood of aloes and of pastils, that came from the house, mixing with the scent of the rose water, did completely perfume the air.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 Anonymous

It was not at all common in Brittany at that time, and the pastils much less sweet than our modern bon bons.

A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago 1919

He was much pleased that he stopped at this place, for the agreeable smell of wood of aloes and of pastils, that came from the house, mixing with the scent of the rose water, completely perfumed and embalmed the air.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments Anonymous 1921

While I softly crunched the pastils, M. de Ploeuc told me about the countries where the plant from which the chocolate came grew.

A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago 1919

The greater number carried in one hand a stick, some even a pistol, as a threatening warning to any one who should attempt to approach them stealthily; and in the other, perfumed pastils, or little balls of metal or wood, perforated and filled with sponges steeped in aromatic vinegar, which they applied from time to time, as they went along, to their noses, or held there continually.

Chapter XXXIV 1909

He took from his pocket three conical red pastils, placed them upon a saucer and lighted them.

Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

An odour of the rarest Arabian frankincense was wafted from the pastils burning on a curiously wrought tripod of Corinthian brass.

A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903

He was much pleased that he stopped at this place; for the agreeable smell of wood of aloes and of pastils that came from the house, mixing with the scent of the rose-water, completely perfumed and embalmed the air.

The Junior Classics — Volume 5 William Patten 1902

Of little or no importance; trifling; invalid. pastils

History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War Richard Joseph Beamish 1895