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- Every time a youth looks love in a maiden's eyes, and sees the timid appealing return of the universal passion, the world for those two is just as certainly created as it was on the first morning, in all its color, odor, song, freshness, promise. [4]
- He seemed pleased with the finery of his garments, which exhaled a subtle odor of spikenard new to his senses; for the eyes in his handsome face sparkled brilliantly. [10]
- The wind, blowing with heavy, steady blast into his face, sickened him with enduring, sweet odor, and filled his ears with a hollow, rushing roar. [13]
- But, as I was saying, phosphorus fires this train of associations in an instant; its luminous vapors with their penetrating odor throw me into a trance; it comes to me in a double sense "trailing clouds of glory. [6]
- When their hunger was appeased, the wine flowed more freely, and each guest was decked with sweetly-smelling flowers, whose odor was supposed to add to the vivacity of the conversation. [10]
- For it was very hot, and the pent-up odor of past cookings was stifling to men used to the open. [9]
- He was thin to gauntness, ate ravenously of the food that was set before him, and throwing off his soaked moccasins, he spread his scalded feet to the blaze, and the steaming odor of drying leather filled the room. [9]
- Presently I began to detect a most evil and searching odor stealing about on the frozen air. [5]
- I went to the stern of the steamboat to tell a stout American traveler what was the origin of the odor he had been trying to dodge all the morning. [4]
- Who can forget the smell that comes through the opened door;--a mingling of fresh earth, fruit exhaling delicious aroma, kitchen vegetables, the mouldy odor of barrels, a sort of ancestral air,--as if a door had been opened into an old romance. [4]
- Presently we passed the place where a man of better odor was born. [5]
- I cannot say that there is any odor of sanctity about this great temple, which has been consecrated, if I remember correctly, and, I will not say desecrated, but secularized from time to time, according to the party which happened to be uppermost. [6]
- The guide said that the mutton had no odor when he took it from the glacier; an hour's exposure to the sun had already begun the work of decomposition upon it. [5]
- He plucked the sweetest bud that grew there, and having enjoyed its odor, trampled it in the mire beneath his feet. [5]
- There was a suggestion of Sunday, and sanctity too, in the odor of caraway-seed that pervaded the room. [4]
- It is as subtle as an odor, and escapes in the transmission. [5]
- Grateful, yes, but still uneasy; and soon I began to feel more and more uneasy every minute, for every minute that went by that odor thickened up the more, and got to be more and more gamey and hard to stand. [5]
- By and by somebody discovered that the odor came from a pile of cheese on the forward deck, covered with a canvas; it seemed that the Rhinelanders are so fond of it that they take it with them when they travel. [4]
- When he did so and heard the subdued moaning with which Karataev generally lay down at the halting places, and when he smelled the odor emanating from him which was now stronger than before, Pierre moved farther away and did not think about him. [2]
- The road was smooth, it was bordered by trees, fields, and grassy meadows, and the soft air was filled with the odor of flowers. [5]
- Thick-driving belts of smoke traveled by on the wind, and with it came a strong, pungent odor of burning wood. [13]
- Still it would scarcely have been advisable to remain near them; for these packages, which the Ortlieb house brought from Venice, contained pepper and other spices that exhaled a pungent odor, endurable only by hardened nerves. [10]
- There are aged people who can remember that they used to choose various roses, as to their color, odor, and degree of unfolding, to express the delicate shades of advancing passion and of devotion. [4]
- Fix the mind on an orange, the ordinary occupation of the metaphysician: take from it (without eating it) odor, color, weight, form, substance, and peel; then let the mind still dwell on it as an orange. [4]
- A strong odor of various fragrant essences preceded her. [10]
- The pleasant odor of greasy viands mingled with the smell of smoke. [2]
- If the eating of cheese were a religious act, and its odor an incense, I could not say enough of the devoutness of the Bavarians. [4]
- I caught the odor of the honeysuckle that climbed on the porch, and I heard the note of the robin that nested there. [4]
- It was the odor of Paradise to my perishing hope! [5]
- And yet the odor of a grain of musk will hang round a note or a dress for a lifetime. [6]
- The convent was not visible from her chamber, but the acrid odor of the smoke and the loud voices which reached her ear from that direction proved that the fire was no trivial one. [10]
- The Master does not seem to like him much, for some reason or other,--perhaps he has a special aversion to the odor of tobacco. [6]
- Everywhere there was music; the air was full of the odor of cheese and cooking sausage; so that there was nothing wanting to the most complete enjoyment. [4]
- There was a masculine odor and a smell of tobacco. [2]
- Philip was not long in discovering that people in Washington did not differ much from other people; they had the same meannesses, generosities, and tastes: A Washington boarding house had the odor of a boarding house the world over. [5]
- The lofty apartment into which he led them, was filled with the odor of incense. [10]
- It made melody in my ears as sweet as those hyacinths of Shelley's, the music of whose bells was so "delicate, soft, and intense, It was felt like an odor within the sense. [6]
- The next thing I remember was being in the dust, suffocated by that odor which he who has known it can never forget. [9]
- Two sparrow-hawks sat huddled up over the door of the cave, out of which came the sharp odor of burning juniper-berries; this was intended to render the various emanations rising from the different strange substances, which were collected and preserved there, innocuous. [10]
- The flower-beds were edged with box, which diffused around it that dreamy balsamic odor, full of ante-natal reminiscences of a lost Paradise, dimly fragrant as might be the bdellium of ancient Havilah, the land compassed by the river Pison that went out of Eden. [6]
- She heard the call of the birds, she inhaled the odor of the new year, she was conscious of all that was gracious and inviting in the fresh scene, but in her sub-consciousness there was only one thought--he was there, he was coming. [4]
- When crushed, sage brush emits an odor which isn't exactly magnolia and equally isn't exactly polecat but is a sort of compromise between the two. [5]
- From the alighting board, instead of the former spirituous fragrant smell of honey and venom, and the warm whiffs of crowded life, comes an odor of emptiness and decay mingling with the smell of honey. [2]
- This was Senator Balaam's paper--or rather, "Brother" Balaam, as he was popularly called, for he had been a clergyman, in his day; and he himself and all that he did still emitted an odor of sanctity now that he had diverged into journalism and politics. [5]
- The fog lifted, and we got under way, but the odor traveled with us, and increased. [4]
- Fields of timothy and clover, yellowing to ripeness, took on a fresh bloom from the dew, and there was an odor of new-mown grass from the sections where the scythes had been. [4]
- There was often an odor of sassafras in the afternoon service. [4]
- The unscrupulous man amasses wealth, lives in luxury and splendor, and dies in the odor of respectability. [4]
- The balmy summer air, the restful quiet, the odor of the flowers, and the drowsing murmur of the bees had had their effect, and she was nodding over her knitting --for she had no company but the cat, and it was asleep in her lap. [5]
- When we got aboard at Mayence we were conscious of a dreadful odor somewhere; as it was a foggy morning, we could see no cause of it, but concluded it was from something on the wharf. [4]
- Its odor is a practical democracy. [4]
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