Badger eagerly picked one up and was about to smell it when Thorndyke grasped his wrist.

If you are a student of languages you will be able to hear half the tongues of the world spoken in less than an hour's walk, ranging say from Parisian French to Pigeon English; you shall make the acquaintance of every sort of smell the human nose can manipulate, from the sweet perfume of the lotus blossom to the diabolical odour of the Durien; and every sort of cooking from a dainty vol-au-vent to a stuffed rat.

Morning, noon, and night, the quarter in which the Hotel of the Three Desires was situated was fragrant with the smell of garbage and Chinese tobacco; a peculiar blend of perfume, which once smelt is not to be soon forgotten.

But I, who smell a rat at a profound distance, do believe in private that Mrs. Howard and his lordship have a friendship that borders upon 'the tender.' "

The organs themselves, it is plain, do not produce them: for then the eyes of a man in the dark would produce colours, and his nose smell roses in the winter: but we see nobody gets the relish of a pineapple, till he goes to the Indies, where it is, and tastes it.

For though, when my eyes are shut, or windows fast, I can at pleasure recal to my mind the ideas of light, or the sun, which former sensations had lodged in my memory; so I can at pleasure lay by THAT idea, and take into my view that of the smell of a rose, or taste of sugar.

The smell of sties and stables came to them.

The chambermaid's cabin was filled with the perpetual odor of hot soap- suds, soiled laundry, and the broader smell of steam and the boat's machinery.

In his pages we catch the odor from the hedges gay with wild flowers and hear the rain falling softly on the green leaves: "But turn out of the way a little, good scholar, towards yonder high honeysuckle hedge; there we'll sit and sing, whilst this shower falls so gently on the teeming earth, and gives yet a sweeter smell to the lovely flowers that adorn these verdant meadows.

I had heard quite enough; and the room was so disagreeable in smell, that I did not choose to stay in it longer than was absolutely necessary.

The very smell of the cooking came back to himthe daily Sauerkraut, the watery chocolate on Sundays, the flavour of the stringy meat served twice a week at Mittagessen; and he smiled to think again of the half-rations that was the punishment for speaking English.

[pirates engage in battle] raise the jolly roger, run up the jolly roger. serve; see service, be on service, be on active service; campaign; wield the sword, shoulder a musket, smell powder, be under fire; spill blood, imbrue the hands in blood; on the warpath.

Five years and never a taste or smell....

The sense of smell is developed amongst the natives to so great a degree that they are able, by smelling at the pocket-handkerchiefs, to tell to which persons they belong ("Reisesk.," p. 39); and lovers at parting exchange pieces of the linen they may be wearing, and during their separation inhale the odor of the beloved being, besides smothering the relics with kisses.

In numerous places thick clouds of vapor burst from the ground, with a strong smell of sulphurated water.

The air, pungent with the smell of rich vegetation, seemed cooler and more invigorating.

Their hands and feet became swelled, and their gums became so sore and putrid that they could not eat, and the smell of their breath was quite intolerable.

An honest seafaring smell, compounded of tar, rope, and fish, known to the educated of Sunwich as ozone, set his thoughts upon the sea.

Even the smell.

placemaybe it's the smell of the air.

He took out Kate's glove, which the wolf had brought to him in the willows, and allowed him to smell it.

"He watched me frying my bacon and he said that the smell was grand; He watched me bucking the stove-wood, but he never lent me a hand, And he played on my concertina the airs of his native land.

Then the Wolf sniffed the smell of the meat, and his mouth watered, and he wished very much to taste.

"Do you wish to smell gunpowder?" ejaculated Rob, firing a pistol immediately under his nose, whilst the ball perforated the earth a few paces off.

Before them, blackness, darkness within dark, like a cave, a smell of dampness like a dungeon.

This is the 'cafe au lait' for which our neighbours over the Channel are so justly celebrated.

CAFE AU LAIT.

Of the essence No. 1808, which answers admirably for 'cafe an lait', so much would not be required.

Cafe noir may be made of the essence of coffee No. 1808, by pouring a tablespoonful into each cup, and filling it up with boiling water.

Why, I can go to the track and sit in the cafe for hours.

We came upon Sabrina seated alone at a table in the rear of a cafe; her hat was tilted rakishly over one ear, a couple of strands of hair were hanging down over her forehead, a bright spot glowed on each cheek and her eyes had a dim, moist appearance.

I got spies out and they say he's been in every cafe in town looking for me.

I shall live in peace and quiet near some good cafe and drown my old age in mixed drinks.

It's another cafe, or do muh eyes deceive me?

We got fairly well fixed up by the time we got down to where we had to go to get the rest of our stuff and when we once again touched mother earth and the captain of the boat had touched us we took it on the run for a cafe, and let me tell you the market price on hot drinks closed strong in Harlem that night.

Two days later it was declared that he had actually been recognised at a cafe in Brussels whence he had fled in consequence of the threats of the customers, who were enraged 'by the presence of such a traitor.'

There being nothing else to do we made ourselves comfortable along side the Belgian Lion Cafe in the southern edge of Louvain, and for hours we watched the advance guard sliding down the road through a fog of white dust.

Moreover, Bobby's description of the stranger who had entered the cafe with her merely suggested a type familiar to the Tenderloin.

" On one occasion he commandeered a motorcycle standing outside a cafe and rode it until the petrol ran out, whereupon he abandoned it by the roadside and pushed on afoot.

Why, that fellow has his card on every house that's for rent in Brussels!" The next morning, while chatting with a pretty English girl in front of a cafe, a German officer who was passing ordered his arrest as a spy.

At eight o'clock every street light was turned off, every shop and restaurant and cafe closed, every window darkened.

As our car came to a halt there rose a chorus of exclamations in all the dialects between Maine and California, and from the door of a near-by cafe came pouring a flood of Americans.

A cup of cafe con leche should precede the excursion.

After we had shaken off the crowd of porters, pedlars and vetturini, and taken a hasty breakfast at the Cafe Americano, we went to the Police Office to get our passports, and had the satisfaction of paying two francs for permission to proceed to Florence.

In Commerce Dock are to be seen, floating, specimens of every ancient and modern naval construction, French and foreign, among which are the state convette Favorite and an English three-master converted into a cafe boat.

Robbery at the Cafe Ravansan R65887.

When we got in, J, Hatton, and I dined at the Cafe Royal.

He had known her in a cafe where she gave ventriloqual performances.

The houses of prostitution disappeared, and as soon as one of them closed, a cafe began to operate.

He said there wuz a caff right 'round the corner, as he pronounced cafe it sounded like a young cow.