It was a dreary room in which a fire was seldom lighted except on Christmas Day, and even in summer-time it smelt of cold.
Vague scents of flower and tree, of soil and wind, rose to his nostrils or went past him: he thought he smelt the very essence of the earth, he thought he felt God breathing on His world.
And now Atdlarneq crawled out, seeing that the other had already smelt him.
But one day the dog smelt out the stranger, and came down from the hills, and then the man was forced to hide away the stranger and his kayak in a far place, lest the dog should tear them in pieces, for it was very fierce.
Silly Billy smelt that faulty grindstone; and I can't smell a rat a yard from my nose, it seems.
Worse than that--he undid a corner of the thick covering of the track, raised it and smelt again--he put in a hand.
And so, as the elephant charged past, it smelt the delicious spices, and catching up the bread with its long trunk, gobbled it up without stopping an instant.
Of course the dogs smelt him at once, and set up such a yelping and scratching that the huntsman came up, and seeing what it was, dragged the Jackal out by the tail.
Now the watchmen were at that hour making their rounds and they smelt the sweet scent of essences and wine that reeked from him; so they made for it and suddenly beheld the youth lying on the bench, without sign of recovering.
Accordingly he smeltit and she said to him, "How deemest thou?
Its presence may be smeltin the breath of persons addicted to spirituous liquors, as well as in their secretions generally.
They reached the little village and went along the empty, silent streets, which smelt of fish and of seaweed.
He was a little man with thin gray hair and paint-daubed hands which smelt of oil.
The furniture was all covered up, and the clock and candelabra were enveloped in white cloths; the room smelt moldy, and its damp, cold atmosphere seemed to chill one to the very heart.
She always remembered that evening when she smelt lilac in flower.
The stones appeared externally black, internally like a metallic ore, and smelt strongly of brimstone.
That they were mostly of an iron colour, and very hard, and smelt of brimstone.
I accordingly gave him a few extra copper rings; but suddenly he smelt spirits, one of the few bottles that I possessed of spirits of wine having broken in the medicine chest.
As for the tavern of the Golden Fish, it smelt of lavender and musk and bergamot the day through.
At Trenton the train set him on board a steamer which took him to Philadelphia where he smelt other varieties of town life; then again by boat to Chester, and by train to Havre de Grace; by boat to Baltimore and thence by rail to Washington.
All trader's taste smelt of bric-a-brac; Chicago tried at least to give her taste a look of unity.
The coal-fire smelt homelike; the fog had a fruity taste of youth; anything was better than being turned out into the wastes of Wigmore Street.
Miss Kingsley knew a Kruman who became very anxious about his soul, because for several nights he had smelt in his dreams the savoury smell of smoked crawfish seasoned with red pepper.
The intention of these restrictions is to guard the men against the smell of the blood of the slain; for it is believed that if they smelt the blood, they would fall ill and die.
The linen invariably smelt of lavender or dried rose-leaves, of which big bags were kept among the sheets; but the washing apparatus was poor, and the illumination was scanty.
While he was speaking, Quicksilver seemed to be in search of something; he went stooping along the ground, and soon laid his hand on a little plant with a snow-white flower, which he plucked and smelt of.
Also I found that the child of the lady Nandie was dead, and that Masapo, the first husband of Mameena, had been smelt out and killed as the murderer of the child.
I should be smelt out and killed before one moon dies, should I?
Why do you tell me all this, O Zikali, seeing that were I but to repeat it to a talking-bird you would besmelt out and a single moon would not die before you do?
I never smelt out that it was Masapo who gave the poison.
All that Zikali smelt out was the poison that wrought the crime, and as some of that poison was found upon Masapo, he was killed as a wizard.
Then I smelt out the poison, searching for it first in the hair of Mameena, and finding it in the kaross of Masapo.
Dingaan smelt him out"--and he made a sideways motion with his hand that among the Zulus means much.
Among them were those three princes upon whom the dust had fallen when Zikali, the prophet, smelt out Masapo, the husband of Mameena.
When it realized that the hateful thing that it smelt was on its back it was panic stricken for a while, and began to try to get rid of it by bucking.
The grain smelt of fish and fish-scales were mixed up with the millet.
This semblance had been painted dark red and smelt strongly of paint.
Dymov was lying on his stomach, chewing a straw in silence; there was an expression of disgust on his face as though the straw smelt unpleasant, a spiteful and exhausted look.
It was unlike any thing I had ever smelt before, and turned me so sick and faint, that I had to cling to the door-post for support.
When assured there was none in the place, she demanded rum, and pointed to a keg, in which she said she smelt it.
The chief received it, smelt to it, and passed it untested to the chief standing by him, who did the same, till it had been handled and smelt to by all the Indians in the circle, while not one had tasted it.
So then did we stalk those noble animals, but they lifted up their trunks and smelt us, and straightway uttered a great voice and fled.
The water smelt abominably, reminding Tom so strongly of the Clyde at its worst that he said to himself: "I declare I am homesick!
The roses were in bloom, the fields smelt sweet with new-mown hay, the strawberries were ripe: it was glorious June weather.
It was worse than useless to attempt any further protest; the gaolers seized the singer by his arms again, one on each side, and in ten minutes he was left to his own reflections, locked up in a pitch-dark cell that smelt like a wet grave.
