And she lifted a Pomander to her nostrils.
"The Valley of Decision"
Edith Wharton
"He has forgotten everything," said the nurse quickly; "'tis the good doctor's Pomander, with spices and perfumes in it to avert contagion."
"Harding's luck"
E. [Edith] Nesbit
A friend of mine, who knew well both the Stevenson family and the Balfours, to which R. L. Stevenson's mother belonged, recalls, as we have seen, his acting in the private theatricals that were got up by the Professor, and adds, "He was then a very handsome fellow, and looked splendidly as Sir Charles Pomander, and essayed, not wholly without success, Sir Peter Teazle," which one can well believe, no less than that he acted such parts splendidly as well as looked them.
"Robert Louis Stevenson a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial"
Alexander H. Japp