"Aloes wood" Quotes from Famous Books
... me not." Then the cateress arose, and set food before them and they ate; after which they changed their drinking place for an other, and she lighted the lamps and candles and burned amber gris and aloes wood, and set on fresh fruit and the wine service, when they fell to carousing and talking of their lovers. And they ceased not to eat and drink and chat, nibbling dry fruits and laughing and playing tricks for the space ... — The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton |