85 Verbs to Use for the Word odor

As we read further the singularly primitive and barbarous ritual of the service of knightly reception in the twelfth century, one is persuaded that the words exhale a German odor, and have nothing Roman about them.

The wood is fine-grained and of a beautiful, creamy yellow color like box, sweet-scented when dry, though the green leaves emit a disagreeable odor.

She never afterwards smelt their unclean, pungent odor, without a sudden pang of the smothered pain of this night coming back to her.

At that, the bo'sun led us round a space towards that side where lay the valley, and here there was under-foot neither sand nor rock; but ground of strange and spongy texture, and then suddenly, rounding a jutting spur of the rock, we came upon the first of the vegetationan incredible mushroom; nay, I should say toadstool; for it had no healthy look about it, and gave out a heavy, mouldy odor.

There was a breeze that brought him sweet, warm odors from the garden, together with a blurred shrilling of crickets and the conspiratorial conference of young leaves.

" He took a mirror in his left hand, and the fruit in the right hand, bent down, and inhaled the odor of the apple, but without results.

"This is truly a charming novel; for half its contents | | breathe the very odor of the flower it takes as its title."

The creek held a new meaning for them now and as they traveled they sniffed its odors and listened to its sounds with an interest they had never known before.

He might have been observed sniffing the air with avidity, however, as though he had caught some enticing odor stealing out of the oven of the cook stove, that was not unlike fresh bread being well browned; and there was nothing Bandy-legs loved better than the crust part of a fresh bakinghe always had a compact with the cook at home to save him the "run-over" portions, which he looked upon as a prize well worth having.

And while he was making this explanation the herculean wood-cutter in the red shirt stirred the red embers whereon a big pot was simmering, and sending forth an appetizing odor, and in five minutes we were all three sitting down to a stew of capercailzie, with a foaming light beer as a fitting beverage.

"The General repeatedly called the attention of the officers at Fort George to the filthy state and foul effluvia of their camp, but they perceived no offensive odor; their olfactories had lost their acuteness, and failed to warn them of the noisome gases that pervaded the atmosphere."

Cairns was tampering with a drug that is hard to give up, in absorbing the odor and color of the oriental tropics.

She passed to her rest years ago, leaving behind her the pleasant odor of a good name, a memory cherished by all who knew her.

In Far From the Madding Crowd, for example, Gabriel Oak wished to have Bathsheba know "his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odor in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feelings in the coarse meshes of language.

They were very prim and clean; the morning air came through the open windows, bearing an almost stupefying odor.

The close air was faintly barbed with the peculiar, penetrating odor of dark, sweating skins.

In she noticed an odor of .

For four years Peter Siner had not known that odor.

And when he saw Mathieu and Marianne, who had instinctively crossed the disorderly drawing-room, rushing into that bedchamber whose odor of nihility they recognized, he could but murmur in a voice full of sobs: "My poor friends, embrace him; you will yet have a little of his last breath.

Thus Robin led his band, walking blithely with chest thrown out and head thrown back, snuffing the odors of the gentle breeze that came drifting from over the hayfields.

It was a calm evening in the early part of June, as Charles and Matilda sauntered forth to inhale the sweet fragrance of the evening breeze that fanned the leaves of the trees, and wafted the odors of many flowers upon its downy pinions, and rippling the now quiet waters of the Sandy river that lay in peaceful repose, its glassy surface reflecting the mild radiance of the setting sun.

And here the king in blissful dreams oft lies 'Mid pure ambrosial odors, and light flies The tune in bliss; away from kingly care, And hollow splendor of the courtly glare; Away from triumphs, battle-fields afar, The favorite haunt of huntsman Izdubar.

All slops find scraps of food scattered about camp soon produce bad odors and draw flies.

This little girla granddaughter of the dirty old man, as that person informed uswas occupied in tying up some small bundles of what the Canadians call racinea sweet-smelling kind of rush-grass, sold by them in the Quebec market, and used like sachets, for imparting a pleasant odor to linen garments.

Perhaps his delicate nose had already detected the faint, unhallowed odor of the chemicals within.

85 Verbs to Use for the Word  odor