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  • And buy me a jar of quince-seed jelly to make it lie down flat.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • And buy me a jar of quince-seed jelly to make it lie down flat.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • And buy me a jar of quince-seed jelly to make it lie down flat.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • And buy me a jar of quince-seed jelly to make it lie down flat.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • And buy me a jar of quince-seed jelly to make it lie down flat.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • It was the photograph of an overhealthy-looking young woman, with scallops of hair pasted to her forehead undoubtedly with quince-seed pomatum, her basque wrinkled across her bust because of the high-shouldered cut of it.

    Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod James A. Cooper 1917

  • The members of the Second Presbyterian Church, of which Fanny Warham was about the most exemplary and assiduous female member, would hardly have recognized the face encircled by that triple row of curl-papered locks, shinily plastered with quince-seed liquor.

    Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I 1915

  • Warham was about the most exemplary and assiduous female member, would hardly have recognized the face encircled by that triple row of curl-papered locks, shinily plastered with quince-seed liquor.

    Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889

  • The liquid bandolines are principally of a gummy nature, being made either with Iceland moss, or linseed and water variously perfumed, also by boiling quince-seed with water.

    The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851

  • Before nursing, wash this off with something soothing; rose-water is very good; but the best thing is quince-seed warmed in

    The American Frugal Housewife Lydia Maria Francis Child 1841

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