sweetscented

It was a splendid book when I looked more closely, bound as a king might bind his choicest treasure, the sweetscented leather on it was no doubt frayed; the golden arabesques upon the covers had long since shed their eyes of inset gems, the jeweled clasp locking its learning up from vulgar gaze was bent and open.

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Page 18 him a sense of stability and security; but neither the delicious warm sunshine of early spring, nor the odours of sweetscented flowers and shrubs drifting in from well-kept gardens, nor the drowsy washing of the river along the sandy shore can entirely dispel his fear lest in time the luxuriant jealous forest, which even now threatens to overwhelm both church and churchyard, shall reduce to jungle and obliterate forever the old Brunswick that once knew Janet Schaw.

Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776 1920