I hastened therefore to obey the younger lady’s behests, and began to gather together enough of the sweet-smelling hay to form a throne for so noble and fair an occupant.
As we entered into the evil-smelling room, stepping down into it from the street, and as Anna shot back the slide of the lantern and turned upon us a triumphant smiling face, I felt that our chief peril was over.
It is a strong-smelling liquor and one drinks a small quantity, taking water afterwards, if one wants.
Although it was hot, everything dripped with damp, and sour-smelling mist drifted past the ship.
In such a dress this singular personage seated himself, with an air of comic grandeur, under a sort of canopy formed by the branches of xocopan (a kind of sweet-smelling laurel).
On every street the sour-smelling copra (cocoanut meat) can be seen spread out upon a mat to dry.
This game was eaten fresh, but they preserved some capybara hams, by smoking them above a fire of green wood, after having perfumed them with sweet-smelling leaves.
Their trunks at the base measured twenty feet in circumference, and their bark was covered by a network of farrows containing a red, sweet-smelling gum.
This sole evidence of profane work attracted all the unoccupied to the miserable and evil-smelling dwelling.
I calculated that a month before she had beensmelling the mangrove swamps of Angola.
You could see that he would have been far more in his element smelling his way through the shoals of the Ems mouth, or beating against a northeaster in the shallow Baltic.
In a second these devils would be smelling out their enemies like some foul witch-doctors.
At sunrise they returned, and decorated the lattices and doors with the sweet-smelling spoil of their joyous journey, and spent the rest of the day in sports and pastimes, and dancing round the Maypole.
Rover was on his hind legs against the tree, smelling at something.
Gee, I hope dad will not get killed here and be buried in a trench with a thousand Russians, smelling as they do.
Every morning when he came into his drawing-room, he found it filled with flowers and smelling as sweetly as a conservatory.
She absolutely shrugged her shoulders and marched a-head of him into the conservatory, where she began smelling at flowers and plucking off sere leaves.
The tea had a fragrant scent, warm and grateful after the moist atmosphere of the meadows, smelling of decaying leaves.
The first thing the decoy-man did, on approaching the ditch, was to take a piece of lighted peat or turf, and to hold it near his mouth, to prevent the birds from smelling him.
Upon endeavoring to open it fully he sensed an obstruction in the back of it, so he unscrewed the mouthpiece and drew forth a ball of dirty, sour-smelling cotton waste.
With the idea that smelling salts, or some cologne water which she had, might help her, she went and fetched them from an adjoining room.
Merely that during the Terror a woman went to the guillotine smelling a rose.
The cobbler's wife handed him his letter, and he stopped to read it by the light of the strongly smelling petroleum lamp.
So saying, he led the way up the damp, ill-smelling stone staircase, and opened the door of the deserted room where we have seen him once before.
Flours may absorb odors because of being stored in contaminated places or being shipped in cars in which oil or other ill-smelling products with strong odors have previously been shipped.
When he came back he had a horse-radish bottle that swarmed with squash-bugs, twenty or thirty of the vile-smelling things, which he dumped out on the ground and stirred up with a stick.
With no more apparatus than an ill-smelling lantern I have evoked him on the naked links.
To the eye of the observer they are wet and cold and drearily surrounded; but ask themselves, and they are in the heaven of a recondite pleasure, the ground of which is an ill-smelling lantern.
Gradually, from the mass of evil-smelling humanity, personalities began to emerge and even intimacies that were flattering because they implied a trust in his own imperfect skill.
Certain quacks dwell in the towns, and profess to diagnose the ailments of a Bedou woman by smelling one of her hairs brought by her husband.
Their examination of me was very searching, even reaching smelling point, and I feel sure I was being exorcised, for so much was being said about Mohammed.
Near Sheher we passed the mouth of the Arfa river, where there is water, and near it are horribly smelling tanks where they make fish oil.
The fort is surrounded by a very evil-smelling moat, and the village situated on a damp plain, white with salt.
It was a most uninteresting ride along this coast: flat, and for the most part barren, broken here and there by lagoons of brackish and evil-smelling water and mangrove swamps.
