“I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, / Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs.”
John Keats
“Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.”
Bible
“And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.”
“We received a letter from a lady who was incensed about my moral depravity, as though I was destroying the underpinnings of society.”
Graham Chapman
“Virtue is like precious odours,- most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.”
“As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.”
