The stinking substance is however so volatile or so easily decomposed in the air that the smell completely disappears in a few hours.
She besides squirts over them a very stinking fluid, whose disgusting smell adheres to the collected eggs and down.
It flew open to reveal a dimly lighted interior, fragrant with the smell of brewing coffee.
The smell of blood--even shark's blood--will drive the other sharks mad!
And so he drags his sore feet ceaselessly backwards and forwards, marvelling at the stillness and the stars and the strange, musky night smell which has crept out of the earth.
And now all the air is sickly with the smell of cooking, and the dry wood crackles in every corner; little wisps of smoke go straight up in the still air.
For anything was welcome if only we could get out of that trench, away from the smell and the flies, away from those bodies.
And there came over the water a strange musty smell; some said it was the smell of the dead, and some the smell of an incinerator; myself I do not know, but it was the smell of the Peninsula for ever, which no man can forget.
In little niches in the wall were mess-tins boiling over box-wood fires, so that the eyes smarted from their smoke, and the air was full of the hot fumes; and everywhere was the stuffy smell of human flesh.
Don't come too near me, for I am frightfully faint and sensitive this morning, and you smell of the Sun.
He was dressed in a canvas suit abundantly besmeared with coal-dust and oil, and had cinders in his whiskers, and a smell of half-slaked ashes all over him.
Would he ever again see the sun rise in the desert, smell the smoke of the camel-dung cooking-fires.
An’ it’d help me git over the miles I gotter go afore mawnin’; jest ter smell it every little while’d help right sum.
Take him in a balloon, and drop him down somewhere in the pitch dark, and I honestly believe all he’d have to do would be to smell the soil, feel of the trees, and tell right away where he was.
He always claimed that he could tell by thesmell of the mud on the anchor, where they were, whenever they had to haul up in a fog.
He then searched the house, and, on opening a pot from which the smell of meat emanated, found that it only contained the rotting fibre-yielding bark of some plant.
While he was partaking thereof, he recognised the smell of meat, and was angry because his mother had given him none, and beat her to death.
Yet the vessel stood straight on; and the sweet smell of the land began to come with the freshness of the morning air.
At the instant I smell something, my sense is irritated, or put in motion, by the parts that exhale from the odoriferous body.
There was a nasty, hovering smell of ruin in the air.
And already he could feel the heat and pressure and vibration of male bodies packed beside and around him on the floor; he could hear their breathing; he could smell their fetid bedding, their dried sweat.
There is no smell quite as expensive as that of burned generators.
There was a smellof mortar still in the air, and a faint suggestion that at any moment green grass might appear between the interstices of the red-brick hearth.
For we do not say, hark how it flashes, or smell how it glows, or taste how it shines, or feel how it gleams; for all these are said to be seen.
With the smellof powder and heated iron mingles the odor of perspiration of an excited mass of men, and the repulsive, terrible, salt smell of their blood.
The birds fly close to the ground, as if the black sky frightened them, and the flowers smell strangely sweet.
Everything was smashed to splinters; there was an ominous smell of gas; part of the train was already on fire, the flames lighting up the weirdly awful scene; and the wind was blowing them right down on our carriage.
The whole scene was so painful and horrible, that it was a mercy she was spared the sight and smell and sounds of it.
Having fastened the torch to the rope, he swung it far down the narrow funnel, up which came the smell of wrack and sea-damp and an obscure, muffled sound.
The air was heavy with the smell of honey-ooze from the pale ling and the purple bell-heather.
The smell of the brine from the dripping boulders smote shrewdly upon Alastair and Lora as they stood at the weedy mouth of the cavern.
She could smellthe pungent odour of the bracken, and, somewhere near, wild mint.
They put their fingers into boxes, lamps, and jugs, smell them, and dirt the table and people's clothes.
The sweetness of the smell will mark the completion of the process.
All of a sudden they halt on the road astonished, smell the grass, prick up their ears to listen, and with eyes wandering in every direction descry the most distant objects.
Not only the wood of this tree, but also the bark and root smell very strong of fennel, which keeps off decay and rottenness.
Though the men were silently concealed in the court-yard close by, yet the tiger, aware of the circumstance, either from the smell or hearing, durst not approach the sheepfold.
The most remarkable are certain middle-sized ducks, of a beautiful rose colour from the head to the tail, but their natural illsmell annoys the nostrils of all who approach them, as much as the beauty of their plumage delights beholders.
On asking the Spanish driver if he smelt any thing amiss, he replied that he had been deprived of the power of smell for four years.
For the more entire they remain, the more taste and smell they possess; if pulverized very small, they lose both.
The taste is bitter, but the smell aromatic and pleasant, though somewhat rancid.
Smell the ocean, Paul," urged Ellenora, who looked years younger and almost handsome.
I still can smell the sawdust, the orange peel, see the myriad of faces and hear the crack of the ring-masters' whips, the cries of the clowns and the crash of the music.
The smell of it was abominable to him; and presently he moved closer under the trees to wipe his beak, as a bird might, on a clump of coarse grasses.
Sometimes, not daring to lift his head to look about him, he had to trust to his ears and his hound-like sense of smell for information as to what was going on.
The shifting flames, and the smellof the smoke, apparently puzzled it.
As she stood over the carcase--the fore-part of which had been superficially barbecued in the fire--the smell of the roasted flesh began to appeal to her even more strongly than at first.
As long as no smell of man should reach the brute's sensitive nostrils to rouse its rage, it was not likely to charge.
The sun had just dipped; it was wonderfully fresh and cool, and a sweet resinous smell drifted out of the forest behind them.
He could smell the clean resinous scent of them and it seemed to him that they were singing wild, barbaric songs.
I came againe to the marke, and could see nothing of a mist, as before; but my nose was affected with a smell which I knew; but immediately it came not to my mind; which was the smell of the canales that come from the bathes at Bath.
I closed up that apartment, as I thought there might be a smell that would raise observation, and I selected one on the opposite side of the gallery for my dining-room.
We all assembled at the appointed time, with a respectable workman whom I was in the habit of employing, to whom we accounted for our proceeding, by alleging that there was a bad smell sometimes, which we thought might proceed from a dead rat.
Here, if you can stand the odious smell of ottar of roses, take these letters and read them, foolish man; and keep them till the shocking perfume is gone off.
