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cloves

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cloves
symbolic of stateliness. [Plant Symbolism and Folklore: Jobes, 350]
See : Dignity


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I then took leave of him, and exchanging my merchandise for sandal and aloes wood, camphor, nutmegs, cloves, pepper, and ginger, I embarked upon the same vessel and traded so successfully upon our homeward voyage that I arrived in Balsora with about one hundred thousand sequins.
I then took cloves of garlic, though with a great aversion, both from the taste and smell.
Some had raisins for eyes and currant buttons on their clothes; others had eyes of cloves and legs of stick cinnamon, and many wore hats and bonnets frosted pink and green.
 
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