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  • Hyacinth walked beside him as she had when the waiters had carried him out of the Glasshouse, and it seemed to him that his mother's garden walked with her; from the other side, Quetzal asperged him with benedictions, his robe of mulberry velvet contributing the mingled smells of frankincense and something else to the cool and windy dark.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • Hyacinth walked beside him as she had when the waiters had carried him out of the Glasshouse, and it seemed to him that his mother's garden walked with her; from the other side, Quetzal asperged him with benedictions, his robe of mulberry velvet contributing the mingled smells of frankincense and something else to the cool and windy dark.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • When she asperged the warm water with cologne, -- it was her secret delight and greatest effort of economy to buy this cologne, -- she always had one little moment of what she called faintness -- that faintness which had veiled her eyes, and chained her hands, and stilled her throbbing bosom, when as a bride she came from the church with him.

    Balcony Stories Grace E. King

  • I work my way up by the clefts of the rocks, hanging on to the tough box, and getting thoroughly asperged by the dew that has not yet dried upon it.

    Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885

  • Moreover, first thing on New Year's morning, everybody, while still in bed, was asperged with a large brush. {

    Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

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