And I think, I rather think, that Doctor Mary smells a rat, though she is, at present, far from guessing the color of the animal!"

The factory was rather a daunting spot; reeking with foul smells and haunted by a sense of gloom.

Stand with him at midnight on the Pampa,let the track be lost,no moon or stars; the vaqueano quietly dismounts, examines the foliage of the trees, if any are near, and if there are none, plucks from the ground a handful of roots, chews them, smells and tastes the soil, and tells you that so many hours' travel due north or south will bring you to your destination.

The bannock on the brander Smells sweet for your desire O my crisp ones I will count not On two sides of the fire; And not a farl has fallen Some evil to foretell!

In choosing fresh butter, remember it should smell deliciously, and be of an equal colour all through: if it smells sour, it has not been sufficiently washed from the buttermilk; and if veiny and open, it has probably been worked with a staler or an inferior sort.

To choose salt butter, plunge a knife into it, and if, when drawn out, the blade smells rancid or unpleasant, the butter is bad.

One moment it had been early morning in a peaceful country, with rustic sights and sounds and smells; the next moment, while the boats were just twenty yards from shore, the blue sea around each boat was turning red.

" Then, while beyond in the forest bright fires crackled and savory smells of sweetly roasting venison and fat capons filled the glade, and brown pasties warmed beside the blaze, did Robin Hood entertain the Sheriff right royally.

This would take some time, and I meanwhile was allowed to remain (my own wish) on terra firma; the noise, dirt, and foul smells of the vessel being, especially in that climate, intolerable.

"It smells of tobacco.

Much honest industry, much straight-forwardness and every day kindness, much that smells of gin, and rascality, and heathenism may be seen in the district.

A man who smells acutely may be set down as enjoying that which is normal, plain, wholesome.

"Smells like you were right there!"

"It smells like rum!" He hustled her out rather roughly, Nathan Slate regarding him with mournful round eyes.

It smells bad, it looks bad.

She was beginning to really know the life of the Greater Numberthe life of the Nine-Tenthsand as she got used to the dust, the smells, and the squalor, she found daily all the richness of human nature.

These were faint, vaguely exciting smells, some of them the exquisite fragrances of summer flowers, others beyond his ken.

Smells the same anyway.

And sent'st it back to me: Since when it grows and smells, I swear, Not of itself, but thee.

"'The war increases in violencedreadful sights, dreadful smells.

" "It smells beautiful," said Spike.

"How beautiful it smells!" said Spike, sniffing away from the moth balls toward the rosebush.

The breath of the house passed over them in thick smells of earth and must, as the fire's heat sucked at its damp.

A man who has read a little smells a little pedantic, and a man who has read much smells yet more so; both are alike unpleasant.

A man who has read a little smells a little pedantic, and a man who has read much smells yet more so; both are alike unpleasant.