Tidings of battle were to the Indians like a fresh scent to hounds of the chase: The Montagnais flew to their canoes, and paddled with frantic haste to the opposite shore, loudly calling on Champlain and his fellow-whites to follow.
The scent of fresh-cut flowers floated upon the continual presence of the incense; a lily outlined its head against the tall carved altar-piece the Brothers had brought from Damascus.
Your profile should come between him and the twilight with a scentof violets.
He flushed to think afterwards, that it was she who was obliged to bring his resolution to a head, her scent of his embarrassment, sharpening her curiosity.
Trent was one of those who fancy they can scent true wickedness in the air.
From the look of you I was afraid you'd use scent and be saucy.
The mingled scent of the flowers and the fir-tree made the kitchen sweet, the pretty glass toys on the little tree caught the light of the fire and flashed back its glow.
The strong scent of resin from the pineries, after we leave Lake City, is quite perceptible, it being a fine lotion for weak lungs.
He is mouse-colored, strong-limbed, and with a nose that couldscent the trail of a butterfly.
The scent of the pines, the pale blue sky behind them, and the quiet sacredness of the spot rested and soothed Mona's soul.
The windows are open, but the small balcony is full of flowers, and the scent and sight of them makes one forget the narrow, dingy street outside.
As they crossed it, they caught the salt scent of the sea, and soon came to a cluster of poor-looking cottages, but beyond them in the distance was the unmistakable blue line of the ocean, and the children seemed delighted.
He was in bed; faintly into the dark room, stole the scent of the bonfire and the noise of the Fair.
As the autumn comes it seems to drowse away into winter to the tune of its Cathedral bells, to the scent of its burning leaves and the soft steps of its Canons and clergy.
Already there was a scent of autumn in the air, leaves were turning gold and red, and the evenings came cool and sudden, upon the hot summer afternoons.
Then they moved forward, stumbling in the dark up a number of stone steps, pushing at a heavy black curtain, then suddenly bathed in a bewildering glow of light and scent and colour.
The shoes gave the dogs the scent and they were set on to seize the man who had worn them, but whom no judge had examined.
Your freedman has been brought in, the pack got on his scent and have now been let into the house close to the tablinum.
The scentof flowers, too, intoxicated her young and inexperienced heart; she willingly offered her lips to his kisses, and with exquisite bliss felt the first glow of youthful love returned.
I, "the Chief of Police, in our cities, is a very questionable sort of gentleman, and is usually supposed to be on the scent of malefactors.
They scent their prey with the unerring instinct of the carrion-bird.
I started on his scent, which was easy to follow, as his feet were big and the scent strong.
Looks as if he were following the scent of some person," replied the constable.
If burglars got scent of this, it might be very awkward.
The hunt had a burst of about forty minutes that left Richard Bassett's cocktail in the rear; and the fox got into a large beech wood with plenty of briars, and kept dodging about it for two hours, and puzzled the scent repeatedly.
Twas I put 'em all on thescent of your kid, you know.
Ever since my earliest recollection the smell of musk has caused me to sneeze in just that way, and I noticed the scent of that perfume at table just before the attack came on.
My instant impulse was to telegraph for my friend to enable him to take up the scent while it was fresh.
Thence as he had found before, came off a most refreshing scent as of fragrant flowers.
How if she had married again, and wished to throw my poor friend off the scent by this false announcement?
Two old ladies put their noses into the group to inhale the atmosphere of scandal--more fragrant to them than the scent of roses.
Then it smelt the faint, sweet savour of perfumes--it was long since that scent had been used there.
Within, the scent of the flowers hangs about the house as though it were the mysterious breath of the invisible Guest who has passed through it.
These fellows have been baulked in some scheme—the river-police have gotscent of 'em—and that's the reason why this man gets off so quick with his lighter.
He has got a scent of me; and he's following it up.
Afterwards, the heavy-horsemen, give information to their pals, and put them on the scent which ships to rob at night.
But at the same time he's afraid that I may have a scent of him; and so he dodges about.
Mr. Wright sticks to the scent and rides boldly; but is he after the real fox?
The scent of jasmin and Daphne flowers filled the air; soft showers fell at intervals over the garden slopes of that part of Rome; the breath of Zephyr swept sweetness into the weary sense.
Inglesant awoke from his mid-day sleep one evening to the splash of the fountain, and the scent of the fresh-turned earth in the vineyard, and found his servant arranging his room for his toilette.
The floors were soaked with vinegar, and the place was full of the scent of juniper, bay berries, and rosemary, which were burning in every room.
A sudden thrill of earth, like the familiar scent of flowers to a dying man, passed through him, and he lifted up his eyes.
Mingling with the rapture, when the kiss and the scent of the carnations had blurred his mind, there was also a sense of fear.
She was genuinely amazed that any one could dislike her scent and that any one could think the rouge unbecoming.
I will remark: Now it is well known that tobacco will prevent moth from eating our woolen clothes, if we pack but little of it with them, that is the moth cannot breed or exist, where there is a sufficient scent of the tobacco.
This scent may be death to the invisible insects even after they are drawn in with the breath and fastened upon the lungs.
The dog's share of the work is to travel around the lake andscent the beaver under the frozen bank.
The beavers flee from wash to wash, as the hunter finds them out, and as each wash is discovered by the dogs (which scent the beavers through the frozen surface) the hunter stakes up the entrance to prevent them from returning.
There is everywhere that glenscent of mouldering leaves, so sweet when the wind comes down and stirs it, and the sun frees and livens it.
Not until we let beauty and the quiet voice of the fields, and the scent of clover creep again into our nerves, shall we begin to build Jerusalem and learn peacefulness once more.
His lean face was streaming with perspiration, and when he took off his overcoat there rose the sweetish sourish scent of a hot goatskin waistcoat.
There was a scent of honeysuckle, he remembered, and many moths came fluttering by towards the tall narrow chink of light between the curtains.
But there was thescent of matrimony in this little party, and she was dressed an hour too soon, and arrived first in the well-lit drawing-room.
No conversation was necessary, merely the selection of a scentand the exchange of a sum of money.
The first room is a sort of miniature scent bazaar.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
