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If you ask around you find out that there is not a restaurant or vendor who doesn't use purified water; and all the rugs in Teotitlan are made from natural dye, and every tablecloth being sold is woven by the family en casa, and every trinket is hecho a mano, and everything yellow is ambre (and it is more valuable with a perfect scorpion imbedded in it).

Question ;Microdyne 2004

But when I was there, when I saw those great cheerless rooms, the bright-coloured, upholstered furniture, that courteous and heartless old man in the open silk wadded jacket, in the white jabot and white cravat, with lace ruffles falling over his fingers, with a soupçon of powder (so his valet expressed it) on his combed-back hair, I felt choked by the stifling scent of ambre, and my heart sank.

The Jew and other stories 2006

He did not talk to me ... but morning and evening, after flicking the snuff from his jabot with two fingers, he would with the same two fingers — always icy cold — pat me on the cheek and give me some sort of dark-coloured sweetmeats, also smelling of ambre, which I never ate.

The Jew and other stories 2006

Mr. Koltovsky was a tall, handsome old man with a stately manner; he always smelt of ambre.

The Jew and other stories 2006

I had remarked that Madame de Pompadour for some days had taken chocolate, 'a triple vanille et ambre ', at her breakfast; and that she ate truffles and celery soup: finding her in a very heated state, I one day remonstrated with her about her diet, to which she paid no attention.

Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Volume 1 Mme. Du Hausset

I had remarked that Madame de Pompadour for some days had taken chocolate, 'a triple vanille et ambre ', at her breakfast; and that she ate truffles and celery soup: finding her in a very heated state, I one day remonstrated with her about her diet, to which she paid no attention.

Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Complete Mme. Du Hausset

I had remarked that Madame de Pompadour for some days had taken chocolate, 'a triple vanille et ambre ', at her breakfast; and that she ate truffles and celery soup: finding her in a very heated state, I one day remonstrated with her about her diet, to which she paid no attention.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

The perfume of _ambre_, loved in the East, came up to her nostrils, and the invalid's breath was aflame.

The Golden Silence 1901

A curious case of a substance valued as perfume by civilised man, and yet coming from a source whence sweet odours would hardly be expected, is that which is known as "ambergris," or "ambre gris" (grey amber).

More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

But, as he says, the second line distinctly alludes to the perfume which is sewn in leather and hung about the neck, after the fashion of our ancient pomanders (pomme d 'ambre).

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855