lavender bag

It tasted like hot water with a lavender bag in it.

A scent of coffee and lavender bags distinguished the atmosphere from that on the stairs.

She opened the lid, removed the lavender bag from the top of the pile, and took out a plain, dark green dress.

"Flowers," he observed, 'and a wonderful smell of polish and lavender bags.

The movement dislodged the lavender bags I kept tucked into the corners, releasing a spicy fragrance.

Damask padded hangers with lavender bags, £11.50 per pair

Be warned: this is not a museum; no friendly elderly women in 18th-century dress will tell you snippets of history or sell you lavender bags.

To "Charlie's annoyance", Smith insists on calling his film Lavender Bags.

She made lavender bags for the linen cupboards, and also made herbal drinks and pomades.

Lavender Bags (1985)

"The linen cupboard shows some of the Museum's collection of household linen, other soft furnishings and lavender bags.

Those for women include Female Rhapsodies (sub-titled 'curtain-raisers'), Lavender Bags and Mothballs.

Then he pulled open the drawers, filled with his mother's things, and looked at them: there were lavender bags among the linen, and their scent was fresh and pleasant.

First came fish parcels, like deep-fried versions of those lacy lavender bags you put in underwear drawers, with a pungency of lemon grass suggesting a similar taste.

The chemin des lavandes takes us among the rows of bushes that cover much of the valley, past smallholdings where you can buy essential oils and lavender bags.

In the drawer of the bedside table was a lavender bag, the pink ribbon at its neck bleached with age, as well as a prescription and a box of new handkerchiefs.

I stacked the laundry in the cupboard, double sheets in one pile, pillow cases in another, shook out a couple of lavender bags to release their scent and left the room.

tore open the lavender bag to retrieve the copy of the parchment lie Book of Numbers, then cast a final look around the chamber she'd it to be her home forever, i knew she would not be back.

Lavender bags were not merely intended for perfuming household linen and blankets in the days of Elizabeth I - they acted as a deterrent to moths, fleas and other unwanted pests; and the stems were once burnt as a fumigant in sick-rooms.

Saying goodbye was a wrench; she had been happy at Timothy's and even Sister Snell expressed the hope that she would be happy, but it was left to the patients to shake her hand and kiss her and make small offerings of lawn hankies and lavender bags.