 ... almost transparent. Of this they make candles, which are never greasy to the touch nor melt with lying in the hottest weather; neither does the snuff of these ever offend the smell, like that of a tallow candle; but, instead of being disagreeable,...  Fire as an Agent in Human Culture - Página 203por Walter Hough - 1926 - 270 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Robert Beverley, Charles Campbell - 1855 - 324 páginas
...like that of a tallow candle ; but insteail of being disagreeable, if an accident put a candle out, it yields a pleasant fragrancy to all that are in...room ; insomuch, that nice people often put them out, 09 purpose to have the incense of the expiring snuff. The melting of these berries is said to have... | |
 | Robert Beverley, Charles Campbell - 1855 - 312 páginas
...like that of a tallow candle ; but instead of being disagreeable, if an accident put a candle out, it yields a pleasant fragrancy to all that are in...room ; insomuch, that nice people often put them out, or? purpose to have the incense of the expiring snuff. The melting of these berries is said to have... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1866 - 294 páginas
...like that of a tallow candle ; but, instead of being disagreeable, if an accident puts a candle out, it yields a pleasant fragrancy to all that are in...out on purpose to have the incense of the expiring .-null'. The melting of these berries is said to have been first found out by a surgeon in New England,... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - 1874 - 788 páginas
...like that of a tallow candle ; but instead of being disagreeable, if an accident puts a candle out, it yields a pleasant fragrancy to all that are in...purpose to have the incense of the expiring snuff. The method of managing these berries is by boiling them in water, till they come to be entirely dissolved,... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - 1874 - 786 páginas
...like that of a tallow candle ; but instead of being disagreeable, if an accident puts a candle out, it yields a pleasant fragrancy to all that are in...out, on purpose to have the incense of the expiring snuft'. The method of managing these berries is by boiling them in water, till they come to be entirely... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - 1874 - 772 páginas
...but instead of being disagreeable, if an accident puts a candle out, it yields a pleasant frugrancy to all that are in the room ; insomuch, that nice...purpose to have the incense of the expiring snuff. The method of managing these berries is by boiling them in water, till they come to be entirely dissolved,... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - 1874 - 776 páginas
...like that of a tallow candle ; but instead of being disagreeable, if an aeeident puts a candle out, it yields a pleasant fragrancy to all that are in...that nice people often put them out, on purpose to ha%re the incense of the expiring snuff. The method of managing these berries is by boiling them in... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1882 - 994 páginas
...like that of a tallow candle, but instead of being disagreeable, if an accident puts a candle out, it yields a pleasant fragrancy to all that are in...purpose to have the incense of the expiring snuff." So our poet-naturalist tries to emulate the early settlers, and turn chandler himself, and gives us... | |
 | 1882 - 988 páginas
...like that of a tallow candle, but instead of being disagreeable, if an accident puts a candle out, it yields a pleasant fragrancy to all that are in...room, insomuch that nice people often put them out 011 purpose to have the incense of the expiring snuH1." So our poet-naturalist tries to emulate the... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1887 - 288 páginas
...puts a candle out, :t yields a pleasant fragrancy to all tliat are in the room ; insomuch that nic". people often put them out on purpose to have the incense...performed wonderful things with a salve made of them." From the abundance of berries still hanging on the bushes, we judged that the inhabitants did not generally... | |
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