Which preposition to use with smellings
The ground was dry again, while the breeze was cool and sweet, smelling of wet foliage and bringing sunshine and shade in frequent and very pleasing alternation.
Experience may shew that, with the parents, this conjunction is effected by the mediation of the bodily senses, but especially by the touch: as that the sight is intimately delighted by seeing them, the hearing by their speech, the smelling by their odor.
Another argument might be that the Droffs were not nearly so sweet smelling in comparison.
We followed her through a network of lanes more evil-smelling than anything I ever imaginedLondon can't compete with Calcutta in the way of odoursuntil we reached a little hovel with nothing in it but a string-bed, a few cooking-pots, and two women.