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"Spice" Quotes from Famous Books

... There is a spice of romance in helping distressed and persecuted lovers; but young people should be very careful not to mix themselves up in such matters. Their own experience is too limited to qualify them for the task. Older ...

— The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage • G. R. M. Devereux

... jay's wing, and the very earth leap like a squirrel for his amazement. Presently he came to an open space where the young bracken was springing round a pool. He flung himself down in the frondage, and the spice of it in his nostrils was as if he were feeding upon summer. He was happy until he caught sight of his own reflection in the pool, and then he could not bear to stay any longer in this wood, because unlike the squirrel and the woodpecker and the jay he was an ugly intruder ...

— The Altar Steps • Compton MacKenzie

... Jean that he was either talking to a lunatic or some wealthy woman with a craze. His sails were taken aback and he was left wallowing in a heavy ground sea of the mind with a smell of spice islands tinging the air. ...

— The Beach of Dreams • H. De Vere Stacpoole

... our April visit — a trip to Uncle Gaylord's (the one in Palo Alto) was mandatory. We had arrived on a Wednesday, and by Thursday evening we had been there at least four times. Each time, JONL would get ginger honey ice cream, and proclaim to all bystanders that "Ginger was the spice that drove the Europeans mad! That's why they sought a route to the East! They used it to preserve their otherwise off-taste meat." After the third or fourth repetition RPG and I were getting a little tired of this spiel, and began ...

— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0

... make the sweetness weak if she stretched it out to me! Keep it intact for those who so delight in it. I am fond of spice ...

— Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas

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