Which preposition to use with smelt

of Occurrences 1194%

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.

like Occurrences 73%

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

in Occurrences 45%

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

at Occurrences 33%

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.

to Occurrences 32%

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.

from Occurrences 22%

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.

as Occurrences 17%

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

with Occurrences 13%

They taste, feel and smell with their forked tongue.

about Occurrences 10%

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.

for Occurrences 6%

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

of Occurrences 6%

As soon as we got out of the sweet-scented air, we came into another that smelt of asphaltus, pitch, and sulphur burning together, with a most intolerable stench, as of burned carcases: the whole element above us was dark and dismal, distilling a kind of pitchy dew upon our heads; we heard the sound of stripes, and the yellings of men in torment.

on Occurrences 5%

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.

in Occurrences 5%

The copper is smelted in Detroit, Cleveland, and Boston.

by Occurrences 3%

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.

ob Occurrences 3%

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

under Occurrences 2%

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

than Occurrences 2%

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

around Occurrences 2%

" 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.

through Occurrences 2%

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.

before Occurrences 1%

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.

within Occurrences 1%

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

without Occurrences 1%

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

with Occurrences 1%

"Used to go smelting with her father, Jack.

over Occurrences 1%

I saw a boy cooking two tiny smelts over a tailor's goose.

to Occurrences 1%

These works employed from four to five thousand men, doing everything from smelting to the making of engines, carriages, shells, guns, etc., and were the best equipped workshops I saw in the Urals.

Which preposition to use with  smelt