I saw that he loved to hear the old Breton songs sung in my sweet, piping little voice, and it was especially pleasant, our music over, to be rewarded by being given chocolate pastils from a little enamel box that stood on the writing-desk. ❋ Unknown (1919)
He was mightily pleased that he had stopped in this place, for an agreeable smell of wood of aloes and of pastils, that came from the house, mixing with the scent of the rose water, did completely perfume the air. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
It was not at all common in Brittany at that time, and the pastils much less sweet than our modern bon bons. ❋ Unknown (1919)
He was much pleased that he stopped at this place, for the agreeable smell of wood of aloes and of pastils, that came from the house, mixing with the scent of the rose water, completely perfumed and embalmed the air. ❋ Anonymous (1921)
While I softly crunched the pastils, M. de Ploeuc told me about the countries where the plant from which the chocolate came grew. ❋ Unknown (1919)
The greater number carried in one hand a stick, some even a pistol, as a threatening warning to any one who should attempt to approach them stealthily; and in the other, perfumed pastils, or little balls of metal or wood, perforated and filled with sponges steeped in aromatic vinegar, which they applied from time to time, as they went along, to their noses, or held there continually. ❋ Unknown (1909)
He took from his pocket three conical red pastils, placed them upon a saucer and lighted them. ❋ Dorothy Scarborough (1906)
An odour of the rarest Arabian frankincense was wafted from the pastils burning on a curiously wrought tripod of Corinthian brass. ❋ William Stearns Davis (1903)
He was much pleased that he stopped at this place; for the agreeable smell of wood of aloes and of pastils that came from the house, mixing with the scent of the rose-water, completely perfumed and embalmed the air. ❋ William Patten (1902)
Of little or no importance; trifling; invalid. pastils ❋ Richard Joseph Beamish (1895)
Then one of the soldiers threw into the interior of the house of Mr. Fishbach one of the pastils which the ❋ Richard Joseph Beamish (1895)
The German soldiers were equipped with apparatus for the purpose of firing dwellings, incendiary pastils, machines for spraying petroleum, etc. ... ❋ Richard Joseph Beamish (1895)
Search was made in a distinguished-looking bag, Mrs. Valentin protesting against the trouble, and beseeching Elsie with her eyes to accept one from the little silver box of pastils that was passed across the aisle. ❋ Mary Hallock Foote (1892)
At Christmas-tide there is a great augmentation in the queer "Vyazemsky" and other cakes, the peasant laces, sweet Vyborg cracknels, fruit pastils, and other popular goods, on which these petty open-air dealers appear to thrive, both in health and purse. ❋ Isabel Florence Hapgood (1889)
He was much pleased that he stopped in this place; for the agreeable smell of wood of aloes, and of pastils, that came from the house, mixing with the scent of the rose-water, completely perfumed the air. ❋ Unknown (1889)
He used a gilt ornamented music-stand as a kind of altar with fumigating pastils for incense, where each morning ❋ G. Stanley Hall (1885)
The street smelt of Eastern silks and Spanish leather, and of the Egyptian pastils which the merchants of perfumery continually burnt in order to attract custom. ❋ Unknown (1881)
To the king he sent some diamonds, but they were yellow, ill-cut, and ill-set; and the rest of the offering was composed of a few pieces of embroidered silk, striped cloth, and cambric: while the queen's present consisted of nothing more valuable than a few bottles of perfume of no very exquisite quality, and a few boxes of powdered scents, pastils, and matches. ❋ Yonge, Charles Duke, 1812-1891 (1876)
It is under the same impression that pastils are now used, or at least to cover the _mal odeur_ of the sick-chamber. ❋ George William Septimus Piesse (1851)
If combustion takes place, which is always the case with all the aromatic woods that are introduced into pastils, we have, besides the volatilized otto which the wood contains, all the compounds naturally produced by the slow burning of ligneous matter, spoiling the true odor of the other ingredients volatilized. ❋ George William Septimus Piesse (1851)
