179 collocations for scent

It became a curious habit of Kazan's always to look at Gray Wolf when they stopped to listen, or to scent the air.

The French-Canadian seigneurs sympathized with Payne, which added fuel to the magisterial flame; and Murray, scenting danger, summoned the whole bench down to Quebec.

The violet ever scents the gale, Its hues adorn the fairest wreath, But sweetest thro' a dewy veil

A dozen times she scented game, and each time it evaded her.

Miss Crewys, joyously scenting battle, hastened to join forces with her sister.

Julia sighed with an impatience not sensibly less sharp for her having so quickly scented some lion in her path.

I exclaimed, scenting mystery in this unexpected visit.

For a single instant she paused to scent the delightful and delicate perfume that seemed to render the interior sacred; then her fingers resumed their office.

The shadows of evening were falling as he approached, and the enamoured princess thus addressed him from her balcony: "May happiness attend thee ever, thou, Whose lucid features make this gloomy night Clear as the day; whose perfume scents the breeze;

The greatest flesh-eaters see badly, but they scrape the bottom with a divining touch and scent their prey at astonishing distances.

Suddenly one of them seemed to scent my living blood, and bayed horribly, and all the others left their ghosts at once and dashed up to the sin that had given tongue.

Do they scent their quarry or view it?A vulture carrion feast.

And to think of that old devil, Skinflint Martin, scenting the trouble and getting off to Buenos Ayres!

Shall, by the hawser-pin Waiting the signal Leavegoanchor! Scent the familiar, The unforgettable Fragrance of home; So in a long breath Bless us unknowing: Bless them, the violets, Bless me, the gardener, Bless thee, the giver.

Raoul's tribute to his smartness perplexed him and almost he scented a trap.

Word had been brought to us that trains of wounded men and prisoners were due in the course of the afternoon from the front, and more especially from the right wing; and in this prospect we scented a story to be written.

The fierce wolves soon scented the food and had a good time devouring it, in spite of the shoutings of Nanahboozhoo.

She had seen certain longings after the ocean, and seals, and whales, in her husband; and did not consider him safe, as long as he could scent the odours of a salt marsh.

For these ablutions scented water, and especially rose-water, was used, brought in ewers of precious and delicately wrought metals, by pages or squires, who handed them to the ladies in silver basins.

In another minute he was beneath that window; had climbed, pulled, pushed his way up; had found the little pocket of netted vines observable from above; had thrust in his fingers and worked a small object out; had looked at it, uttered an exclamation curious in its mixture of suppressed emotions, and let himself down again into the midst of the two or three men who had scented the adventure and hastened to be witnesses of its outcome.

The vultures already scent the carcase, and three or four Quarterly Reviews are about to start.

Soon we heard a challenge-trumpet Sounding in the pass below, And the distant tramp of horses, And the voices of the foe: Down we crouched amid the bracken, Till the Lowland ranks drew near, Panting like the hounds in summer, When they scent the stately deer.

Kazan and his mates soon began to scent the presence and the movement of this life.

The White Pine, the most noble and the most beautiful tree of the whole coniferous tribe, predominates in the New-England forest; though some wide tracts are covered with the more homely Pitch-Pines, which are the trees that scent the atmosphere on damp still days with their delightful terebinthine odors.

Memorial of my former days, Magnolia, as I scent thy breath, And on thy pallid beauty gaze, I feel not far from death!

179 collocations for  scent