Odour

Examples

• They all appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of lime-cream. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• To say the truth, we were getting in no very good odour among the tip-top proctors, and were rapidly sliding down to but a doubtful position. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Suddenly, the atmosphere was impregnated with the odour of the Indian berry, which grew in immense quantities around me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• An unpleasant odour would not be objected to; it is not objected to now in many continental hotels. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When she left the room, an odour of rose, or some other magical fragrance, lingered about the nursery. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Take the colours and odour from the rose, change the sweet nutriment of mother's milk to gall and poison; as easily might you wean Perdita from love. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The half-smile was responded to by the lady, who could guess in what sort of odour Hortense was likely to be held by the young Yorkes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• One of them was a faint odour of musk and camphor. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But with refined oil the disagreeable odour continued. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He presented, altogether, rather a mildewy appearance, and emitted a fragrant odour of full-flavoured Cubas. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Your bank-notes had a musty odour, as if they were fast decomposing into rags again. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• There was Lord Decimus Tite Barnacle himself, in the odour of Circumlocution--with the very smell of Despatch-Boxes upon him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The earthy smell of the dried leaves was balm to my sense after the hateful odour of sea-weed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The street was very narrow and muddy, and the air was impregnated with filthy odours. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He was permeated with its scenes, with its substance, and with its odours. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The same sort of difficulty is presented if we enquire how it is that certain flavours and odours give pleasure, and others displeasure. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Let him be prepared to be assailed by the odours of undrained gutters, ditches, and roads called streets, and escape, if he can, stumbling and falling into them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It was long after seven o'clock, and the light and odours proceeding from the basement made it manifest that the boarding-house dinner had begun. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• There are only the usual odours. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

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