Citations:cayenne


 * 1843, in The Literary Garland, page 20:
 * Romance is the very cayenne of existence. Without it, what should we be but a vast community of common every day folk?
 * 1846, Mrs. C. D. Burdett, Walter Hamilton: a novel, volume 3, page 19:
 * "For my part," interrupted Jane, "I think contrast the very cayenne of life — without it, anything and everything becomes tasteless : in my mind, that alone is sufficient cause for Ellen's apparent inconsistency, past, present, and to come."


 * 1917, Cosmopolitan, volume 64, page 108:
 * In something pink, silk, and conservatively V, she was a careful management's last bland ingredient to an evening that might leave too Cayenne a sting to the tongue.