Smelling

Examples

• Deerhurst was smelling a bottle of hartshorn, which Sophia's landlady held fast to the end of his nose. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Smelling the grub like a old lady a going to market! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The night was hot, and the shop, close shut and surrounded by so foul a neighbourhood, was ill-smelling. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He was a dreadful old man to look at, in a filthy flannel waistcoat, and smelling terribly of rum. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• There doubtless was good cause for objection to the smoky, unpleasant smelling light then produced. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I'll let you know, if you don't bring smelling-salts, cold water, and vinegar, quick, I will. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I was so bewildered that Miss Donny thought the cold had been too severe for me and lent me her smelling-bottle. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• His valet stood behind him with a smelling-bottle ready in one hand, and a white handkerchief, saturated with eau-de-Cologne, in the other. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• When I had done he opened them indolently, took his silver smelling-bottle from the table, and sniffed at it with an air of gentle relish. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But Beth's roses are sweeter to me, said Mrs. March, smelling the half-dead posy in her belt. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I slipped it under the sofa cushions, half in, and half out, close by her handkerchief, and her smelling-bottle. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I found the island to be all rocky, only a little intermingled with tufts of grass, and sweet-smelling herbs. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• He took the sponge, dipped it in, and moistened the corpse-like face; he asked for my smelling-bottle, and applied it to the nostrils. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Mr. Fairlie shook the silver smelling-bottle at me playfully. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The foul, bad-smelling gases which arise from sewers can be prevented from escaping and passing to streets and buildings by placing charcoal filters at the sewer exits. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Now all of our first seeings and hearings and touchings and smellings and tastings are of this kind. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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