Idyllic ploughmen are jocund when they drive their team afield; idyllic shepherds make bashful love under hawthorn bushes; idyllic villagers dance in the chequered shade and refresh themselves not immoderately with spicy nut-brown ale.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
He could sit and gaze happily for hours at a Corregio, forgetting the plush benches and the noisy tourists, utterly absorbed; he found a joy that was almost physical in a sudden landscape or the moon which breaks loose from its clouds and gleams on a rough sea; he would watch with a smile of pleasure the way of a woman with her child or a child with its toy; he shrank with loathing from all that was ugly, sordid-the sight of needless misery or the sound of a woman's oath; and yet-and yet he could not rid himself of the idea that there was something palpitating, wicked, spicy, about a shop-girl who held up her skirt to cross a muddy road.
"Helena Brett's Career"
Desmond Coke
Under the hostess's direction they betook themselves via footpath and trail to a stone-walled pasture spicy with sweet fern.
"Entertaining Made Easy"
Emily Rose Burt