The din and the smells were hideous, the death carts rattled from dawn till dawn; many were left unburied in their houses for a week; hundreds died daily; and the city confessed itself helpless, although it cleaned the streets.
When he had finished, he was still so excited that he rushed from the house and walked till the hideous sights and smells drove him home.
The laboratory in which these researches were conducted, was high and airy and not associated with any unpleasant smells except at the season when the class were engaged upon the dissection of the hideous dog-fish.
That Parsee smells fire like a fusee; and smells of it himself, like a hot musket's powder-pan.
Much might be ruminated here, concerning the essential dignity of this regal process, because in common life we esteem but meanly and contemptibly a fellow who anoints his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing.
It smells like the left wing of the day of judgment; it is an argument for the pit.
For years he knows not the land; so that when he comes to it at last, it smells like another world, more strangely than the moon would to an Earthsman.
Though thousands of miles from Oregon, still when he smells that savage musk, the rending, goring bison herds are as present as to the deserted wild foal of the prairies, which this instant they may be trampling into dust.
Does the fact that we sent you a warning last week make the smells more unendurable?
Eleanor waited while she discussed the pedagogical value of chemistry with a sophomore who had elected it, and now, after a semester and a half of gradually deteriorating work, wished to drop it because the smells made her ill.
Her hair smells of violets, but it is the delicate odour of hyacinth that came from her bare young arms when she clasped them round my neck; et sa peau, on dirait du satin.
Old Benzoni says of it, "It smells well and tastes better," and declares it to be "one of the most relishing fruits in the world.
The house looks as if nothing had been touched in it since Mrs. Lamb's reception came to a premature conclusion--it smells like it too.
The warm wind smells of pitch from the moored barges smells of the broad leaves of the trees wilted from the day's long heat; smells of gas from the last taxicab.
The wind goes among them detaching sweat-smells from underclothes making muscles itch under overcoats tweaking legs with inklings of dancetime.
When soil is wet and warm And smells of the new rain, When frogs accost the evening With their recurrent strain, Then damn me if you dare.
I shall breathe All the scattered smells of the field and garden While I slumber.
It's th' springtime an' out o' doors an' sunshine as smells so graidely.
I sometimes feel as if I could eat three when those nice fresh heather and gorse smells from the moor come pouring in at the open window.
Openings are then made at the top and bottom of the laboratory-closet into the warm-air flue, and the gases and smells are pressed by the colder air into this flue, and are carried off in the current of warm air.
In a warm climate or season, by means of the non-conducting castings, the stove will ventilate the house and do all the cooking, without imparting heat or smells to any part of the house except the stove-closet.
Between the two rooms glazed sliding-doors, passing each other, serve to shut out heat andsmells from the kitchen.
This is the mode employed in chemical laboratories for removing smells and injurious gases.
The varieties of bad tastes and smells which prevail in it are quite a study.
The impression and consolation are here still connected with the Holy Eucharist: for the hand which she smells is no doubt the right one,--the hand which was wont daily to consecrate in her presence and daily to communicate her.
What a contrast to "Steeltown" with its smells and sickening summer heat, to the shanty where Mrs. Scherer took boarders and bent over the wash-tub!
I do not refer to the actual Chamber, which merely smells like the Tube, but the lofty passages and lobbies where the statues are.
For instance they have never yet explained what it is that the House of Commons smells of.
Dem collards smells good," he said, sniffing the odor that came in through the kitchen door, as his good-looking yellow wife opened it to enter the room where he was.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smells" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
