I have the queer, faint, pit-water smell of it in my nostrils now as I write, and my fingers have subconscious memories of the soft, "cloggy" feel of the long-damp pages.

They were ranged together on the Bankside and they sweat and smelled like congenial neighbors.

The air was growing cooler, with the queer, acrid smell in it that high hills bring.

He trusted those wild horses, but he was still puzzled by that strange man, who had also left him now and was going quietly round on all fours, smelling at the grass.

In the former case, having killed one of God's and your own oxen, you strip off its hide,because that is the common trophy, and, moreover, you have heard that it may be sold for moccasins,cut a steak from its haunches, and leave the huge carcass to smell to heaven for you.

Inside 'twas cool enough, with a pleasant smell from the cedar pews, but there was such a press of a congregation that many were left standing.

BOURBON, by any other name, would smell as sweet.

They taste, feel and smell with their forked tongue.

Laughed at in his sufferings by the savages, almost suffocated by the bad smells about the hut, taken out at times to be the sport of his captors, unable to eat, full of aches and pains, he was yet able to look up and say, "Let the Lord do as He sees fit," and to read his Bible and feel refreshed.

The room exhales a smell for which there is no name, in any language, except that of odour de pension.

What should I speak of pale physicians, Who as Fismenus non nasatus was (Upon a wager that his friends had laid) Hir'd to live in a privy a whole year, So are they hir'd for lucre and for gain, All their whole life to smell on excrements.

De panther came up to him and smelled ob him, but de nigger held his breath, and de panther thought he wuz dead.

This species has pink flowers and clammy leaves, which are glandular on the under surface, and give out a fragrant smell by which it may be recognised.

When laying your wines down in bottles you should never use new deal saw-dust, as that causes it to fret too much, and often communicates a strong turpentine smell through the corks to the wine.

" Directly then the Buso began to smell around the ground where the man had started to run up the mountain-side, and, as quick as he caught the scent, he trailed the man.

Memory, imagination, old sentiments and associations, are more readily reached through the sense of SMELL than by almost any other channel.

I crept down the stairs like a cat, and walked along the lower hall, smelling under all the doors, listening as I went.

I don't want wives and families and neighbours to come smelling round those dockyard gates.

If they are not instructed thereby, they will at all events remain confounded; and hence confession is an odor of a sweet smell before God, even tho it be deadly to the reprobate.

And at intervals in the ghastly residue of war arose a smell unlike any other smell. ...

And then they stood so long that Mr. Russell's Hound had time to make himself acquainted with every smell within twenty yards.

Let there be an unseemly sight, or a foul smell near thee, and thou hast only to turn thy eyes, or hold thy nose, to be rid of it; but I could never find the means to lessen a prejudice that was once fairly seated in the mind.

I've knocked about, so that I can easy stand some tough smells without much inconvenience.

" Bacon also hath it: "Woods of oranges will smell into the sea perhaps twenty miles; but what is that, since a peal of ordnance will do as much, which moveth in a small compass?" It is once used by Shakespeare, Macbeth: "Ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle, with drowsy hums, Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.

Hammocks, bedding, clothes, and ship were kept as clean and dry as possible, and when the ship could not be "cured with fires," once or twice a week she was smoked with gunpowder, mixed with vinegar or water: "to cleanliness, as well in the ship as amongst the people, too great attention cannot be paid: the least neglect occasions a putrid and disagreeable smell below which nothing but fires will remove.