All the sweet sounds are drowned by the noise of snorting or neighing horses, by the men’s voices and the tramp of the sentries’ tread; all sweet scents overpowered by the smell of the harness and other barrack odours.
There are no nightingales or chirping crickets to be heard, no scents of rose and jasmine to be breathed.
The gardeners had been mowing, and there was still the smell of fresh-cut grass--the thundery air kept all scents close to earth.
She enjoyed him in the scents absorbed by her crinkling nose.
Robin was happy because there were flutings of birds in the air, gardeners were stuffing crocuses and hyacinths into the flower beds, there were little sweet scentsfloating about and so it was Spring.
The lilac and the hawthorn tree continued to breathe forth warmedscents of paradise in the sunshine, the piano organ went on playing, sometimes nearer, sometimes farther away, but evidently finding the neighbourhood a desirable one.
The green of the trees in the Gardens was light and fresh and in the bedded-out curves and stars and circles there were more flowers every hour, so that it seemed as if blooming things withscents grew thick about one's feet.
The air was deliciously laden with the exhilarating scents of the young green earth, the bluebirds flashed from bough to bough of the elm trees, and the robins, how they sang!
The sweet pungent odour of burning evergreens filled the air, mingling with the scents of the forest.
All the radiant mornings and heavenly nights, all the summer scents of flowers or hay or hedges in bloom, or new rain on the earth, were things felt just as that other one felt them and drew in their delights--exactly in the same way.
Honey scents of gorse and heather blew softly through the open windows of the room he was taken to.
The morning rose fair and the soft wind blowing across the gorse and heather brought scentswith it.
Scents may vary as the river's fringe; but only a delicate blend is recognised--the breathings of honey-secreting flowers and of sapful plants free from all uncleanliness.
Often I am frightened of myself, especially when the nights are very still and I listen to the scrub hens chuckling and the flying foxes squealing, and smell the scents of the scrub.
A trailing eugenia bears dark red flowers shaped like a mop, and a tiny white lily with petals and strangely protuberant anthers scents the air as with honey and almonds.
It was two or three days before the inflammation entirely left his eyes and his nostrils got back their old sure power of discriminating between the many scents of the forest.
Suggestions of the persimmon fruit were also there and the tantalizing odor of witch-hazel and other sweet scents that the bear knew not.
Gradually it subsided to a foot pace, swinging and lumbering upward among the many sweetscents of a summer night.
The winged fleetness Of immortal feet is gone; And your scents have shed their sweetness, And your flowers are overblown.
Takes out his scent-bottle and scents his hands] I've poured out a whole bottle of scent to-day and they still smell.
Takes a scent-bottle from his pocket, and scents his hands.
These scents met him at the most tantalising times, pulling him this way and that, exciting the wildest hopes in him, afterwards condemned to sterility; as ghosts haunt the convinced and trusting spiritualist, so did rabbits haunt Hamlet.
He might even have concluded that the whole Rabbit story was a myth and a legend were it not that certain scents and odours were for ever tantalising his nose that could, his instinct told him, mean Rabbit and only Rabbit.
Flowers cannot give forth the fragrance That scents the air from my golden store, Fairest lady, none can excel them, Buy then my Oranges; buy, I implore.
These delicious scents of the shore, mingling with the fresh airs of the sea, made the atmosphere a dreamy, an enchanting one.
In every tiny leaf and gland and hair Sweet perfume is distilled, and scents the air.
The old red-beard scents wine as a fox scents a goose.
Other scents had a similar effect; but on repetition several times the bees became accustomed to the scent, and no longer came out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
