These animals give utterance to a very peculiar noise, and when touched emit an odour quite characteristic.
As they exhale a nauseous odour they are not used as an article of food; and further, as their carapace is neither thick enough nor beautiful enough to be manufactured as tortoise-shell, they are consequently little sought after.
When the musk-like odour of this fatty substance, as in Chelonia caouana and C.
Its flesh is sweet and delicate, and emits an odour grateful alike to the nose and palate.
Aboard ships dull shocks are sometimes felt, and an odour of sulphur issues from the receptacles of chain cables.
It was not without substantial grounds that Gilliatt lived in this odour of sorcery.
Fires raged in every direction, making the air hot; it was close through the smoke cloud above and the absence of wind, foetid with the odour of human blood that lay in pools in every street and splashed upon the houses.
From his back, shoulders, and chest the brutal negro ruthlessly tore pieces, holding them up to the assembled court in triumph, while the air was filled with the nauseating odour of burning flesh.
It was the faint sickening odour emitted from the corpse that had greeted our nostrils when we entered the place.
The odour of coconut prevailed, delicately but abidingly; for, save for the occasioned pleasure junket, The Tigress was a copra carrier, shell and fibre.
There will be long stretches of idleness, heat, and enervation; and always the odour of drying coconut.
The odourof kerosene permeated the bungalow; but Ruth mitigated the nuisance to some extent by burning native punk in brass jars.
Presently the odour of burnt powder mingled agreeably with that of the incense.
Now thanks be to God, who always maketh us to triumph in Christ Jesus and manifesteth the odour of his knowledge by us in every place.
But I have all and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things you sent, an odour of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.
For we are the good odour of Christ unto God, in them that are saved and in them that perish.
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.
To the one indeed the odour of death unto death: but to the others the odour of life unto life.
And the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
The wash-house odour that arose from the lessive was not grateful, but I tried to accommodate myself to it.
The breath of evening is made sweeter by the odour wafted from some distant fresh-cut grass or broom that has been drying in the September sun.
There was a wooded quietude here, with an odour of fresh grass and water that enticed me to linger; but the evening light in the tops of the trees and the twittering of the birds settling amongst the leaves for the night spurred me on.
The stable had been carefully cleansed, but the horsey odour that belonged to it could not be swept out.
I seemed to have been asleep but a few minutes, when I became conscious of an odour of burning pine; then through my still-closed eyelids I perceived that the hut was lighted up.
Unless you get a gust of kitchen in passing some hotel, you shall smell nothing all day long but the faint and choking odour of frost.
He smoked odd little Cuban cigarettes, whereof the odourwas delicate and aromatic.
His hands smelt of that peculiar odour which he had first noticed that morning in the corridor.
All the rooms were painted alike, in salmon-colour with a high dado of maroon; and there was in them an odour of disinfectants, mingling as the afternoon wore on with the crude stench of humanity.
It was dirty and untidy, and it was filled with a pungent odour made up of many different stinks.
They walked along the side of a hill among pine-trees, and their pleasant odour caused Philip a keen delight.
They were associated in his mind with a faint odour of iodoform.
A striking appearance combined with a very perceptible and penetratingodour is occasionally to be met with, as in the caterpillar of the common Swallow-tail, Papilio Machaon.
It is suggested that the social habits of the larvæ which lead then to congregate in large numbers, make up for their want of colour, since their offensive odour then gives timely warning to an approaching enemy.
A large moth from Jamaica, well known to possess a powerful odour when alive (Erebus odorus Linn.
Strange were they to look at, and of curious beauty, and their beauty troubled him, and their odour was sweet in his nostrils.
But the beauty of the white flowers troubled him, and their odour was sweet in his nostrils, and there came another word into his lips, and he spake not of the wrath of God, but of the God whose name is Love.
Grey threads of smoke came from it, and its odour as it burned was as the odour of the pink almond in spring.
Tendrils of convolvulus clung around his feet, the scent of thyme came in gusts with the cloying odour of gardenias.
A large fire burnt in one of the grates, strings of onions hung from nails on the walls, and the place was pervaded by an odour of scalded oil and grilled tomatos.
The air was filled with the odourof them, dry and resinous as that of the fir forest.
Ever after thatodour affected Honoria with a sense of half-fearful joy and of impending fate.
For a little space she rested in all this, savouring the sweetness of it as someodour of costly sacrifice.
From out the open shop-door came mingled odourof new leather and of horse clothing.
You see, between ourselves, I'm not, unfortunately, in exactly good odour with some members of the family just now.
Their little hoofs pattered on the stone, and the musky odour of them hung in the burning air.
The agreeable odour I feel, considered by itself, without relation to any external object, is merely a sensation.
When we listen to a flute, our muscles may be contracted as before, or quiescent as before; when the odour of a rose is wafted to us, not a single muscle may be more or less affected.
When the particles of odouraffect our nerves of smell, a certain state of mind is produced, varying with the nature of the odoriferous body.
Heavy clouds of smoke hung and moved in the air and mingled with the steady odour of German food, braten, onion and butter-sodden, beer and rich sour bread.
The room was densely saturated with an odour which she guessed to be that of stale cigar-smoke.
Then there were oysters in every variety--silver dishes containing them stewed, their fragrant macey odour wafting itself upward, and causing watery sensations about the mouth.
On the floor, however, was a woman's handkerchief, filmy and small, and without the least odour clinging to it.
Yet stay; in the closed room he detected what had been lost in the open: a faint, a very faint, odour as of azurea sachet.
Stoats sometimes emit a disgusting odour when caught in a trap.
Sometimes a peculiar but not altogether unpleasant odour fills the low-pitched sitting-room--it is emitted by the roots burning upon the fire, hissing as the sap exudes and boils in the fierce heat.
It has a beauty of its own when in full yellow blossom--a yellow sea of flower, scenting the air with an almost overpowering odour as of a coarser pineapple, and full of the drowsy hum of the bees busy in the interspersed thyme.
The odour of their breath floats heavy on the air.
I feared that the heavy odour would be too much for the dear child in her weak state, so I took them all away and opened a bit of the window to let in a little fresh air.
We were prepared for some unpleasantness, for as we were opening the door a faint, malodorous air seemed to exhale through the gaps, but none of us ever expected such an odour as we encountered.
But as to the odour itself, how shall I describe it?
That the flowers were of medicinal value, and that the breathing of their odour was a part of the system of cure.
At the bottom there was a dark, tunnel-like passage, through which came a deathly, sickly odour, the odour of old earth newly turned.
He said that there was an infectious odour of concentrated humanity, with the dust and mud of centuries still over all.
There is a peculiar odour all over Cogolin, which comes from the manufacture of corks and queer-looking "whisk-brooms.
The ghost of the warrior has a ghostly sword and buckler to fight with and a ghostly cup to drink from, and he is also nourished by the impalpable odour and reek of the animal victims sacrificed over his grave.
While the work is often cleverly done as to matching and manipulation of the pelt which is very soft, there are great objections in the odour and the brittleness or weakness of the fur.
Whether the strongodour of trimethylamine evolved by the spores of Tilletia attracts insects is not known.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "odour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
