It was the Governor Paganetti leaving the tribune, his face white, the eyes wide open, his mouth half opened, like some Pierrot scenting in the air a formidable blow.
Soames, scenting the approach of a jest, closed up, and answered: "I wanted to ask you about Dartie.
As a dog whose master has it in his mind to go away from him, stands gazing up with tragic inquiry in his eyes, scenting to his soul that coming cruelty--as a dog thus soon to be bereaved, so stood the little model.
Turning abruptly, he left the room, and the spaniel John, for whom he had been too quick, stood with his nose to the shut door, scenting for someone to come and open it.
Absorbed in his duties, the animal goes forward, scenting the wind, at a moderate pace.
Liszt, however, scenting this possibility, had settled the bill in advance.
They moved off ere long to draw the Holt Wood, in as open a morning and as strong a scenting wind as ever favored Melton Pink.
The affairs of England," said the other, and tossed his head proudly like some young Lion scenting battle.
Tall figures were moving about the camp, looking almost like ghosts, in the uncertain glow of the fire; and towards these lights and shadows we jogged with satisfaction, scenting supper from afar.
Tropical flowers bloomed around them, scenting the warm air; delicious music floated entrancingly in.
The beavers themselves are strangely attracted by this substance, and when scenting it at a distance will invariably make their way to it.
Attracted by Foma's loud words, the public looked at them, scenting a scandal.
Listening to the old man's hoarse and confident voice, Foma thought: "He is scenting death, it seems.
Mrs Gamp rubbed her hands, and smiled, and shook her head, and sniffed expressively, as scenting a job.
Mrs Gamp received them, and scenting no more rum in the wind (for the bottle was locked up again) rose to take her departure.
For, as if scenting an approaching peril, the yellow hound suddenly lifted his muzzle and gave a long, dismal bay while his yellow hide arose in deep ridges upon his back.
Again scenting fish, he began to chew the second pole, but this time finding it give way, he hauled it out of the hole; and with the pole came part of the net; and with the net came a few fish.
Remember, too, that deer are never so frightened at seeing or hearing you as they are at scenting you, for the merest whiff of man-smell will drive them away.
Judy, scenting this, told her flippantly that a miss was as good as a mother, and Georgie laughed, but warned her to remember the children were in the room.
The unfortunate new comer, scenting an allusion to a more cheerful phase of Coast life, gladly answers in the affirmative.
Scenting an intrigue, with the usual accompaniment of a generous douceur for their share in it, they trotted off at a pace that gave their light burden hard work to keep her seat.
James, scenting a discreet but persistent dun, bade him wait in the library, and conveyed his request to Prue with the same air of respectful condolence with which he would have announced any other calamity.
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.
What mean you," they exclaim, "by scenting like a dog for blood upon this royal threshold?
Its subtle scenting faculty had been aroused by some unwonted and consequently disquieting emanation.
The mothers of Midshipmen have a means of scenting the whereabouts of a fleet that mere censorship of letters cannot balk.
And then, scenting silent sympathy, he guides you to a quiet bar-parlour where you can pay for his beer while he talks.
The raven's power of scenting carrion from a great distance may have originally influenced, as in the case of the dog and owl, its selection as a personification of impending death or other calamity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scenting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
