From head to foot with subtle care, Slaves have perfumed her delicate skin With odorous oils and benzoin.
There the soul bathes itself in indolence made odorous with regret and desire.
This Venus brings, in clouds involv'd, and brews Th' extracted liquor with ambrosian dews, And odorous panacee.
Here modest matrons, in soft litters driv'n, To pay their vows in solemn pomp appear, And odorous gums in their chaste hands they bear.
The wondering Vánars passed the bound That circled that enchanting ground, And as they came a sweet breeze through The odorous alleys softly blew.
Then to the south I made my way From regions of the rising day, And roamed o’er Vindhya, where the breeze Is odorous of sandal trees.
The wild bee rests a moment where Each tempting flower is sweet and fair, Then, coloured by the pollen dyes, Deep in some odorous blossom lies.
He saw the sandal woods below, And precious trees ofodorous flow, That to the air around them lent Their riches of delightful scent; Nor failed his roving eye to mark Tall aloe trees in grove and park.
A soft air from the forest springs, Fresh from the odorous grass, and brings A spicy fragrance as it flees O’er the ripe fruit of Pippal trees.
Under the inspection of this worthy assembly, specialists began to fill the body with strongly odorous plants and sawdust, they even poured in odorous resin, all amid prayers.
Odorous flower, whose voice is like a flute, listen to me!
Not so long lasting as the skunk's perfume, this odorousmist is nearly as effective while it lasts.
Latin: the odorous substance of the civet alluding to the musk secreted by the muskrat) Range: Virtually all of North America north of the Mexican border.
Isabel had just put up her handkerchief to conceal her first yawn, when the gentlemen, odorous of cigars, returned to say good-night.
They were seated at a table; two glasses of beer towered before them; on their plates were odorous crumbs of Limburger cheese.
He is not denied the inhalation of the odorous breeze, and a pause in the shade to wipe his heated brow; but he must not swerve from his furrow to seek it.
Several Vermont officers greeted our friends as they approached, offering the odorous drink to the lady.
O'er orange orchards and the rose Vague, odorous lips the south wind blows, Peopling the night with whispers of Romance and palely passionate love.
In autumn the leaves of the maple Pave the floors of thy palace-halls with gold, and in summer Pine-trees waft through its chambers the odorous breath of their branches.
In each one Far o'er the gable projected a roof of thatch; and a staircase, Under the sheltering eaves, led up to the odorous corn-loft.
So was her love diffused, but, like to some odorous spices, Suffered no waste nor loss, though filling the air with aroma.
Under the open sky, in the odorous air of the orchard, Stript of its golden fruit, was spread the feast of betrothal.
When Venus would her dear Ascanius keep, A prisoner in the downy bands of sleep, She odorous herbs and flowers beneath him spread, As the most soft and sweetest bed, Not her own lap would more have charmed his head.
Coming joys, like tropical shores, throw over the immensity before them their inborn softness, an odorous wind, and we are lulled by this intoxication without a thought of the horizon that we do not even know.
In the rear of the house, rising from an old barn, a thin pole with a cup-like attachment at the apex, thrust its point into the open above the dense, odorous pines.
Lydia's red, clean little hands were still faintly odorous of chopped onion, as she moved them from hook to hook.
A large bowl of small crackers was set before them, damp squares of strong butter on small nicked plates, finally a bowl of pink, odorous shrimps.
Mrs. Cluett spread a small, spotted fringed cloth on a trunk, setting on it a cut and odorous lemon a trifle past its prime and a sticky jar of jam.
They left the Roman-nosed horse and the surrey at Beetman's livery stable, a damp and odorous enclosure smelling of wet straw, and with the rear quarters of nervous bay horses stirring in the stalls.
Women were coming and going on the altar, trimming it with odorous green for Christmas.
They went in the side door, and through the dark dining room, odorous of vegetable soup and bread and butter.
But Martie had, to treasure, the memory of the early morning when she slipped quietly into the room that was orderly, dimly lighted, and odorous of drugs now.
After so many years of bleak and treeless farm-lands, it seemed that our mother could not get enough of the luxuriant foliage, the bloom and the odorous sweetness of this lovely valley.
Zulime led the march to bed, the lights were turned out and the clear, crisp, odorous October night closed over our scene.
Our diversions, dependent on a love ofodorous fields, colorful hills and fruitful vines, were of arcadian content.
Their buzzing as they darted above the odorous pool of golden liquid made the sound Burl had heard.
They moved sturdily, heavily laden, along the route marked with the black and odorous formic acid exuded from the bodies of their comrades.
There is a sleepy dusk, an odorous shade From some approaching wonder, and behold Those winged steeds, with snorting nostrils bold Snuff at its faint extreme, and seem to tire, Dying to embers from their native fire!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "odorous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
