Presently the little room was filled with the steamy odorof a bitter healing, and she was on the battlefield where she loved to conquer.
No sooner had the odor risen upon the air, than Mattie stood on the spot, dumbly insistent on her toll.
At the moment the lid was lifted, a curious odor filled the room.
There was the subtile odor of earth in the warm, faint air, and before us that impenetrable shadow that we knew to be an island, yet whose outlines were traceable only by the obliterated stars.
Once I awoke with a headache, the air was so dense with the odor of orange-blossoms.
Presently we heard the slow swing of the tide under us, and the musty odor of the docks regaled us; one or two shadows seemed to be groping about in the neighborhood, making more noise than a shadow has any right to make.
It seemed that the horrid odorof dip and sheep had permeated everything.
Some thick odor had begun to reach Carley's delicate nostrils.
That filthy pen of mud a foot deep, and of odor rancid, had no terrors for her.
The other pot was sizzling and smoking, giving forth a delicious savory odor that affected Carley most agreeably.
But at first it was the odor that caused Carley to close her eyes and press her knees hard against the upper log to keep from reeling.
Carley saw the blue and yellow smoke from burning brush, and the fragrant odor thrilled her.
She was like a creature born from the freshness of dews, from the odor of foliage, from the hues of the clouds, from the foam of the brooks, from all things of the woods and the water.
On the air, there was a sweet damp odor from soaked grasses and upturned sods, from the breath of the herds lowing hock deep in water, from the green knots of broken primrose roots sailing by on the brown, rough river.
A faint acrid odor struck his nostrils as he started to descend the shaft, the "perfume" of exploded dynamite, and it sent anew into Fairchild's heart the excitement and intensity of the strike.
Finally they turned back along the drift toward the stope, the acrid odor of dynamite smoke-cutting at their nostrils as they approached the spot where the explosions had occurred.
The faint perfume of sandalwood which, living, always hung about her garments, flowed in with the odor of the plum.
The odor of good food attracted Tatsu's senses if not his eyes.
The odor of the whiskey was so strong, in and about the chiente, that the Pottawattamies did not know what to make of it.
But the bee-hunter knew that he should greatly increase the wonder of the savages by leading them to a NEW scent- spot, one to which there was no visible clew, and where the odor was probably much stronger than on the hill-side.
Near this spot their new fire was still brightly blazing, and there Wolfseye remained, regaling one of his senses, at least, with an odor that he found so agreeable.
Here he found the odor of the whiskey so strong, as to convince him that some of the liquor must yet remain.
It would seem that in moving the barrels some of the liquor has escaped, and the nose of an Injin is too quick for the odor it leaves, not to scent it.
At length he came to the natural conclusion, that this unusual odor was in some way connected with the family he had left on the other shore; and from that moment his mind was at ease.
USES: To diminish expectoration and lessen odor in phthisis; also for tracheal and bronchial catarrhs.
In a vague, intangible way Geoffrey knew that that overpowering blinding odor was the same stuff that had come so near to ending the head of the family.
Almost immediately the acid was wiped off and the odor ceased.
Even at his respectful distance Geoffrey could catch the odor of the bandages.
A sickly sweetodor filled the room and caused Ralph to double up and gasp for breath.
I only guessed that the sickly odor was the cause of the mischief.
The odorwas almost exhausted; there was merely a faint suspicion of it, but at the same time it spoke to Ralph as plainly as words.
The pine trees waved dreamily in the soft spring breeze, and the odor of their fragrant leaves came borne to where she sat.
Out in the kitchen that small "cullud pusson," Fly, is making biscuits for supper, and diffusing around her a most delightful odor of good things.
I had already recognized the odor of the foul stuff.
I noted, too, a heavy and unhealthy odor as of decaying leaves, and observed that a perfect carpet of these lay on the path.
The agony I endured was increased by the seeming impossibility to drive them away, and, fortunately for my sanity, I awoke, but with a hot head and throbbing temples, and a sense of nausea from the extremely strong odor of the cheese.
A lady informs me that a similar odor produced in her a dream of the house being on fire and the impossibility of her escaping by reason of all her clothes being burned up.
It is only when the exceedingly small particles of which the odor of various bodies is composed come in contact with the minute ramifications of the olfactory nerve that this sensation is produced.
This illustration will explain how the odor of different substances is frequently perceptible in the breath long after the mouth is free from them.
The luscious and balmy air, loaded with the perfumes of herbs, with the perfumes of grass-wrack, with the odor of the wild flowers, caresses the soul with a penetrating sweetness.
Here and there tall factory-chimneys rose up from the barren soil, the only vegetation on that putrid land, where the spring breezes wafted an odor of petroleum and soot, mingled with another smell that was even still less agreeable.
I used to think at first that the fresh light and soft air, impregnated with the odor of herbs and leaves, would instill new life into my veins and impart fresh energy to my heart.
As there was danger in being caught none of this stolen meat was ever fried because there was more danger of the odor of frying meat going farther away than that odor made by meat being boiled.
In some places the shores were completely covered with a stratum of dead salmon, exhausted in ascending the river, or destroyed at the falls; the fetid odor of which tainted the air.
Astonished and mortified at such unusual bad luck, he at length conceived the idea that there was some odor about his person of which the beaver got scent and retreated at his approach.
The beaver, possessing an acute sense of smell, is soon attracted by the odor of the bait.
A volcanic tract of similar character is found on Stinking River, one of the tributaries of the Bighorn, which takes its unhappy name from the odor derived from sulphurous springs and streams.
Clung to with constancy, they stain your knife and napkin, impart a bad odor to your dining-room, and degenerate into something that is neither pleasant to the eye nor good for food.
It was not destined that I should be long gone; for I met Katie bringing up something, whose odor was not even a temperate one.
Again theodor of burned powder attacked the nostrils and clouded the heavy air.
One who reads this will never forget the odorof the lilac, "the lustrous western star" and "the grey-brown bird singing in the pines and cedars.
Again they will remember the star, and again the odor of the lilac.
Now my odor comes in contact with this odor, and I, being well, have found out by twenty years' experience that these odors affect me, and also that they contain the very identity of the patient whom this odor surrounds.
This called my attention to it; and I found that it was as easy to tell the feelings or thoughts of a sick person as to detect the odor of spirits from that of tobacco.
Your suggestion is a good one and the odorof your cell will certainly confirm the declaration.
A goat is a respected member of the family and his odor by comparison not offensive.
My soul clings to these people, who have sheltered me and given me succor out of the affection that abides in Jewish hearts, as sweet odor in things long crushed and hidden from the outer air.
How could the rose help it when several bees in succession took its sweet odor as a sign of personal attachment?
Then Grandcourt's behavior as a lover had hardly at all passed the limit of an amorous homage which was inobtrusive as a wafted odor of roses, and spent all its effects in a gratified vanity.
It thus becomes dried and freed from anodor which is present in the freshly slaughtered carcass.
It is of a dark brown color with a marked odor of the recent plant, and so far, after standing three months undisturbed on my shelves, shows no sign of precipitation.
I sat eating a confounded mess of black bread, and blacker veal, for fifteen minutes, when the breeze brought me the odor of your delicious plat.
At these times the odor of the pepper, saffron, and ginger became more powerful than ever.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "odor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
