The little beings who hovered around her in that sweet spot, almost forgot they were not in Fairy land; the air was so full of sweet odours from ferns and mosses, and the many other delicious scents you find so constantly in woods.
The market of Christmas Eve was flaring and clamorous; the odours of burning naphtha and fried fish were pungent on the wind.
Lydia talked over these things with Mary in the kitchen below the shop, where odours of Christmas fare were already rife.
The prevailing odours of the hall were stale beer and stale tobacco; the latter was speedily freshened by the fumes from pipes.
O child of man, why muse you here alone Upon the Mountain, on the dreams of old Which fill'd the Earth with passing loveliness, Which flung strange music on the howling winds, And odours rapt from remote Paradise?
No westernodours wander On the black and moaning sea, And when thou art dead, Leander, My soul must follow thee!
The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good, O'er the mute city stole with folded wings, Distilling odours on me as they went To greet their fairer sisters of the East.
The sides of the walks were almost closed with red and white roses and with jessamine, so that they gave sweet odours and shade not only in the morning, but when the sun was high, and one might walk there all day without fear.
The very stale odours of the spilled whiskey seemed the material expression of the essence of degraded souls; for a moment it overpowered him.
The breezes stealing into the church through the open casements wafted hither and thither the odours of the chancel flowers, and mingled with those fainter and subtler perfumes set free by the rustling of summer gowns.
XXXII Enriched with odours through the windows drifting From perfumed hair, and greeted as a friend By peacock pets their wings in dances lifting, On flower-sweet balconies thy labour end, Where prints of dear pink feet an added glory lend.
The holy fires around the altar kindle, And at their margins sacred grass is piled; Beneath their sacrificial odours dwindle Misfortunes.
In the same way as sounds or odours exhaling from some insects attract the one towards the other sex, so with the Lampyris a phosphorescent light shows the females to the males.
Not always with rejoicing This ministry is wrought, For many a sigh is mingled With the sweetodours brought.
At Genzano are neither dahlias nor lilacs, and no odours but foul ones.
And, O king, odours and perfumes do not then become so agreeable to our sense of scent, and, O tiger among men, the very tastes of things do not then so well accord with our organs of taste as at other periods!
And all the odours of that place are delightful, and all the breezes delicious to the touch.
A chill like that of the tomb succeeded the agreeable coolness and the perfumes yielded to sickening odours like those of the grave.
It was a close place there, and filled with odours of fish; in fact the whole vessel seemed to be stuccoed with fish-scales.
No grateful dews descend from ev'ning skies, 45 Nor morning odours from the flow'rs arise; No rich perfumes refresh the fruitful field, No fragrant herbs their native incense yield.
Sabaean odoursfrom the spicy shore Of Araby the blest.
The night was sultry, and through the open windows above the gardens the strange odours that are born of darkness and of night entered the palace.
The gracious gods of plenty still filled the luscious vats; rustling Zephyr still whispered love among the flowers, still came laden with the ripening odours of the fruit.
The combined odours of oranges and candle snuff had their charm.
It was a lovely landscape, ripe with harvest, and the air full of mellow, balmy odours from the flowers and grain.
My lot might have been worse," he thought, as he broke his loaf; he was disinclined to eat; the filthy odours of the cabin pursued him.
There the air was filled and heaped with the odours of the heavenly plants that crowded its humble floor, but they gave me no welcome.
Then the way the odours went and came on those sweet winds!
Worse than this are the strange and often offensive odours that assail one in the streets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "odours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
