violet-scented love

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  • adjective smelling of violets

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Examples

  • Like most simple things, they are difficult to do well, and violet soliflores are haunted by Victorian ghosts dabbing their pale foreheads with violet-scented handkerchiefs, while they recover from another fainting fit.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Marina Geigert 2008

  • Miss Temple had been aware (from the husky, insistent, violet-scented breathing) that her aunt had lingered on the opposite side of her door through the day of her (as she now thought of it) Dark Retreat, but she wanted no part of that conversation either.

    The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006

  • Miss Temple had been aware (from the husky, insistent, violet-scented breathing) that her aunt had lingered on the opposite side of her door through the day of her (as she now thought of it) Dark Retreat, but she wanted no part of that conversation either.

    The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006

  • He is no match for me, she promised, wiping his brow in cool, violet-scented water.

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • He is no match for me, she promised, wiping his brow in cool, violet-scented water.

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • Dear God, but she was lovely; the purple mouth was wide, panting violet-scented breaths, the black eyes were glittering as she laughed and called softly:

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • Dear God, but she was lovely; the purple mouth was wide, panting violet-scented breaths, the black eyes were glittering as she laughed and called softly:

    Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • Dear God, but she was lovely; the purple mouth was wide, panting violet-scented breaths, the black eyes were glittering as she laughed and called softly:

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • A small bag of violet-scented candies from a shop on the Rue de Rivoli.

    Maigret and the Madwoman—Simenon, Georges - 100 Simenon, Georges 1970

  • It was Gila's violet-scented missive over which she had wept those angry tears.

    The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

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