330 collocations for smells

"What are you doing that for?" "Why, because they may miss it, and smell a rat. Come on; let's get the key and see what it means.

I, in the next room, suddenly smelt a smell of wood burning.

"At three P.M., just as people were gathering for the funeral, the quick, glad cry: 'I smell flowers, sweet, sweet flowers!'" Alas!

And I've smelled smoke, too....

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

But the chief part of the gratification you receive from smelling a rose, arises from some past scene of delight of which it reminds you; as, of the days of your innocence and childhood, when you ran about the gardenor when you were decorated with nosegaysor danced round a may-pole, (this is rather a free translation)or presented a bunch of flowers to some little favourite.

Then this queer little companya Denver bank-clerk, an ex-schoolmaster from Nova Scotia, an Irish-American lawyer from San Francisco, a Kentucky "Colonel" who had never smelt powder, and "the Boy" (who was no boy at all, but a man of twenty-two)these five set to work felling trees, clearing away the snow, and digging foundations for a couple of log-cabinsone for the Trio, as they called themselves, the other for the Colonel and the Boy.

Gee, but if pa wears that rig in the menagerie tent the animals will paw and bellow like a drove of cattle that smell blood.

He was proffering something, and Kazan smelled meat.

What man who has smelled the first fragrance of the earth, has heard the birds on their northern flight and has seen an April brook upon its course, will withhold his credence even though the jest be plain?

Through the summer I had often seen carriages at the door, and ladies and gentlemen in light clothes walking over the lawn, and sometimes I smelled nice things they were having to eat They did not keep any dogs, nor pets of any kind, so Jim and I never had an excuse to call there.

I smelled the foul air of the Canongate Tolbooth, and heard this same man testifying against the vanity of the world....

When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells the new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits.

"Goodness, it smells musty in here.

Third StageAway went the prince, and having travelled a considerable distance, Kurugsar suddenly exclaimed: "I now begin to smell the stench of the dragon."

As I stooped over I could smell the heavy sweet odour of the clover blossoms.

I smell the devil.

I fancied it possible they might smell my breath, and that worried me.

Thus we reached the quays at last, and though I knew that I was leaving Europe and leaving all hope behind, yet 'twas a delight to smell the sea again, and fill my nostrils with the keen salt air.

They looked in, therefore, and saw that within it was very dark and smoky; they also thought that they heard there a rumbling noise, as of fire, and a cry of some tormented, and they smelled the scent of brimstone.

A maid to every two rooms, a physician to every ten, and smelling salts to each room, were provided for in this gigantic enterprise.

It took Thor and Iskwao five minutes to arrive within five feet of each other, and then very decorously they smelled noses.

She hath a little kennel in her lap, and she smells the sweeter for it.

Now when we had been two hours in the dark part of the Gorge, I smelled of the dread and horrid stink that you do wot of.

"Hy-guy, that coffee smells some kind o' good, don't it?

330 collocations for  smells