Septimus
Americannoun
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Septimus Piesse, a 19th-century chemist, translated sounds into smells, proclaiming an “octave of odors,” the authors explain, “with correspondences between notes and scents providing the basis for harmonious olfactory combinations.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The landowners sold the site in 1926 to Septimus Wray, a pleasure garden entrepreneur who began opening the caverns to visitors.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024
Some coronavirus symptoms may also last longer than others, said Joshua Septimus, a medical director in the Houston Methodist health-care system.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2022
The preceding novel in the series, The Warden, describes the scandal surrounding the decent old gentleman Septimus Hardinge, whose position running a charitable retirement home becomes the subject of a reform campaign.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2016
Septimus tried to blink, to clear his tearing eyes, but he had forgotten how to blink, and his eyes would not close.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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