You can also adjust the lids to sprinkle or pour out your precious spices in quantity.

As the Portuguese were lured to the Orient in search of precious spices, many married local women and settled down.

Once Taliaesyn got them unpacked and spread out, the village women clustered round to haggle for the little clay pots and packets of beaten-bark paper that held the precious spices.

To produce the precious spice, Ajidica knew he would have to use unsettling means.

Marygay and I had brought along enough kitchenware to cook and serve a meal for six, and a cabinet of precious spices and herbs.

All that precious spice gone, swallowed in an instant.

Arrakis was, of course, the only known source of melange, the precious spice without which the Imperium would collapse.

Those bales contain fine silks and embroidered damask; to the side are cases of precious spice, even more precious liquors, and subtle pastes without value.

But an angry and vengeful Dominic Vernius could cause damage, especially so close to the precious spice sands.

At last, loaded with precious spices, the fleet went to Kannur for further trade before setting out on its return voyage to Portugal on 16 January 1501.