There was a breeze that brought him sweet, warm odors from the garden, together with a blurred shrilling of crickets and the conspiratorial conference of young leaves.

Pad, pad, padSomething passed down the garden path, and a faint, mouldy odor seemed to come in through the open door, and mingle with the burnt smell.

She never afterwards smelt their unclean, pungent odor, without a sudden pang of the smothered pain of this night coming back to her.

"I'm so hungry," announced Betty, coming out of her room, once more trim and neat, and sniffing the delicious odor of hot waffles.

Certain it is, however, that no alarm was raised even when the sergeant came to my relief, and in silence, save for the rustling of the foliage as we swayed to this side or that, the battle was continued until I felt the cruel fingers about my throat suddenly relax, while a warm liquid of a peculiar, salty odor poured down over my neck and head.

The air of this mountain region in the summer is of the purest, loaded always with the freshness and the pleasant odors of the forest.

She brought with her a clean aromatic odor of disinfectants.

And while he was making this explanation the herculean wood-cutter in the red shirt stirred the red embers whereon a big pot was simmering, and sending forth an appetizing odor, and in five minutes we were all three sitting down to a stew of capercailzie, with a foaming light beer as a fitting beverage.

The beautiful town, that gives us wine With the fragrant odor of Muscadine!

The wood is fine-grained and of a beautiful, creamy yellow color like box, sweet-scented when dry, though the green leaves emit a disagreeable odor.

"What are you cooking in your kitchen, the savory odors of which are maddening to a hungry man?"

"The General repeatedly called the attention of the officers at Fort George to the filthy state and foul effluvia of their camp, but they perceived no offensive odor; their olfactories had lost their acuteness, and failed to warn them of the noisome gases that pervaded the atmosphere."

Broken Tooth and the other beavers had wrought a big change in what had once been his home and Gray Wolf's, and for many minutes Kazan stood silent and motionless at the edge of the pond, sniffing the air heavy with the unpleasant odor of the usurpers.

At one end was a chimney made of slabs of wood, with the chinks filled in with mud that, in the process of time, aided by the heat of the fire, had become as hard as cement or adamant; and from this there curled wreaths of lazily ascending blue smoke, the source of that delightful odor that had drifted to Bandy-legs's nostrils.

He did not feel the touch; the fragrance of orchids seemed to come to him above that other more healthful, less agreeable odor of special cleansing preparation.

On investigation by officers of the Board of Health, the foul odor was found to exhale from the premises of 113 Nassau Street.

Walking in the evening glow to spy the marriages of the white gilias, I sniffed the unmistakable odor of burning sage.

A bolt of lightning slivered the rock above the wolf; there was an acrid odor of burning hair.

An indescribable and heavy odor fell upon him and for the moment overpowered his senses, and he found himself standing face to face with a figure prodigiously and portentously tall.

The pine grove, wrapped in shadow, exhaled a balsamic resinous odor, and from the yard, still heated, in which a last red gleam was dying away, a chillness arose.

But the instant he pushed open the door of the kitchen on the left of the hall, a horrible odor escaped from it, an odor of burned flesh and bones.

But Barney, missing a familiar pungent odor that should go with such a breakfast in a wilderness, hurried back to the plane to return with a coffee pot and a sack of coffee.

And the mingled odor of waters fresh and salt was broken into a breath now pungent and pleasant, now almost noisome, as the light breeze stirred the shallows of this strange domain which was neither land nor sea.

These are the best bedchambers the high mountains affordsnug as squirrel-nests, well ventilated, full of spicy odors, and with plenty of wind-played needles to sing one asleep.

It was deposited in Wyatt's own; and there, too, it remained, occupying nearly the whole of the floorno doubt to the exceeding discomfort of the artist and his wife;this the more especially as the tar or paint with which it was lettered in sprawling capitals, emitted a strong, disagreeable, and, to my fancy, a peculiarly disgusting odor.