She put out her hand to touch the child, and at the same moment a faint bitter odour of herbs came towards her, and she recognised it as the same she had smelled in the cup in the kitchen.
Then that other mad hour of stolen sweetness, when he had groped for her in the luminous darkness of her room and found first the little, pale, strong hands that smelled like apple blossom--then her lips!
But it was a good while before Elizabeth began to pick either for lip or basket; she stood on the viney knolls, and looked, and smelled the air, and searched with her eye the openings in the luxuriant foliage that walled in the valley.
There it was dark, and one smelled the boards of an old wooden box that stood there, garden loam, and the sourish barberries.
He wrapped her in a great silk cloak which smelled faintly of musk.
Billy saw all that, it was what she wanted to see, the little tavern full of those balls of gray; it smelled of damp wool and an overheated stove, and outside the windows was the blue cold twilight of the winter morning.
They entered a hall which smelled of smoke and onions, and thence a living-room in which they were met by heavy, over-heated air.
Everything smelled of dust and very bad perfume; there were terrible red cushions, a child cried somewhere, and everything was horribly ugly and sad.
The gods smelled a savor; the gods smelled a sweet savor; like flies they swarmed around the sacrifice.
And the Lord smelled a sweet savor," says Genesis,--viii.
And so Johne Knox smelled out the craft, and in his sermonis, which he maid upone the Weak dayis, he prayed to God, that thei should be als busye in preaching when thare should be more myster of it, then thare was then.
Mr. Hosmer came out and went downtown on some errand; I suspect that, like the wise man he is, he smelled a rat and wanted to leave a clear field to Ma and Mrs. Lund and Miss Carpenter.
The spare room was of good size, and smelled shut up and musty, as spare rooms in the country usually do.
I like 'em; only I never smelled 'em all at the same time before.
And the only reason Ruddy had barked half-joyously when he smelled the woods was that he remembered how he and Rick had used to romp among the trees and dried leaves, having glorious times.
He had smelled his way back along the path over which the sailor had led him, until he reached the log cabin.
That is why Ruddy, as all dogs do, always smelled of anything before he ate it.
It was the face of a ragged man, and the man, as he saw in the darkness the dog and boy moving away, muttered: "He nearly smelled me out!
If the guard had known, this was the same man Ruddy had smelled and rumbled at.
He smelled it more plainly now, showing that he was coming nearer to it the farther he went from his new kennel house.
He carried the bone out to Ruddy, who cringed low when he dimly saw, and heard, and keenly smelled the man coming toward him.
Once Ruddy (or any dog, for that matter) had smelled a person, he never forgot.
He sniffed and smelled his way to where the cat-odor came from until, passing around a hollow stump, he saw a sad sight.
As soon as Ruddy saw this path, and smelled the clean smell of woods and leaves, he gave a little joyous bark.
The lake was sunk to quarter size, it had horrible raw banks of clay, that smelled of raw rottenish water.
The swans had gone out on to the opposite bank, the reeds smelled sweet, a faint breeze touched the skin.
How perfect everything tasted and smelled and sounded, here in this utter stillness of snow and falling twilight.
The breeze was lively, and smelled excellent of flowers and grass, and the little cottontail rabbits entertained themselves with skylarking across the road.
His face was as rough as a scrubbing brush, and he talked soft and kind and smelled of schnapps.
Even on the hottest afternoons the cottonwoods made a rustling shade, and the air smelled of popcorn and melted butter, and Bouncing Bets wilting in the sun.
When one danced with them, one smelled their clean, freshly ironed clothes that had been put away with rosemary leaves from Mr. Jensen’s garden.
The chairs and sofas were already occupied, and the air smelled pleasantly of cigar smoke.
Then, bidding him lead the way, and begging mademoiselle to follow, I plunged into the darkness of the passage and felt my way to the foot of the staircase, which was entirely unlighted, and smelled close and unpleasant.
When a man smelled the horses, he would run to the camp and say, "The wind tells us the Kawa are coming.
The air smelled damp and more than a little stuffy.
The grass in the side yard had been freshly mowed and smelled deliciously.
Thus when you smelled it again, even after the lapse of thirteen years, the particular brain cells into which the memory had been packed away released the recollection.
I washed my hands in the water but they still smelled "fishy.
While I was in Tokyo, if I passed by a noodle house and smelled the seasoning spices, I felt uncontrollable temptation to go inside at any cost.
He thought hesmelled sweet peas and sat down in an arm-chair to think; but the odor, which made her recognizable in his dreams of her, prevented him from thinking as you would expect a healthy young man to think.
He smelled now the odor of sweet peas, which stirred sleeping memories without fully awakening them, as all flower odors do by what the psychologists call association.
I well-nigh lost mine office, because one frosty morning Master Varney thought I smelled of aqua vitae; and this fellow can appear before him drunk as a wineskin, and yet meet no rebuke.
Varney; "I have seen and smelled enough to spoil my appetite.
It was, to the doctor, the cosiest nook in his house, but to me and many others a room that smelled of hearses.
I often meant to ask you," Gavin said as they went along the Tenements, which smelled at that hour of roasted potatoes, "why you are so unpopular.
Each room smelled of a different kind of cologne and no two rooms were furnished alike.
The air all around the Tower smelled sweet, just like cologne.
I smelled Spring in the maple branches and the cedar, and felt it in the salt mist that blew up from the sea.
I smelled the tuberoses and the great clusters of white lilacs.
They approached him and smelled him, grinning hideously and disclosing their gums.
The clock represented a temple of Vesta; and the whole room smelled musty, as it was on a lower level than the garden.
Julian fetched his jug of water and when he lifted it, he smelled an aroma that dilated his nostrils and filled his heart with gladness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smelled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
