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Sentences ending with scent

I don't hear the dogs and horses yet; you've got time to crowd through the brush and get up the crick a little ways; then you take to the water and wade down to me and get in--that'll throw the dogs off the scent. [5]
If you find no gold this time, you are delighted again, because you know you are on the right scent. [5]
I will choose me a new name, speedily, to throw the law's dogs off the scent. [5]
The birds sang in the court-yard, and when the breeze stirred it was ever laden with a new scent. [9]
Thereafter he led her horse to the brook, which floweth through the woods down to the meadow-land, and bid her ride along in the water so far as she might, to put the hounds off the scent. [10]
Add to this feeling, on my part, the thrill that it was I who had put them on the scent. [9]
People will come early from the villages and tread down the snow, so the dogs will lose the scent. [10]

More example sentences with the word scent in them

We mane business, ye know; and the sooner ye put us on the scent of a V, the asier yell save yerself from a dale of trouble. [5]
The windows were wide open also, and the scent of June roses came in, with all the languishing sounds of a summer night. [4]
The evening air was laden with the scent of the sweetest of all shrubs and flowers. [9]
Familiar to her too was the aromatic scent of kyphi,--[incense]--which filled the hall, although fresh air was constantly pouring in from outside through the high windows. [10]
But no lotuses though the market here is full of them; they are showy, boastful things with no scent, I cannot bear them. [10]
Did ye smell the wild scent in the green o' the wood? [11]
The shadows of the walnuts and hickories were growing long, and a rich country was giving up its scent to the evening air. [9]
A wind blew the scent of sage in his face. [13]
The scent of the roses overpowered her. [9]
And instead of the reek of tobacco smoke, the room is filled with the scent of the floral tributes brought down by the Ladies' Auxiliary from Leith. [9]
Night fell to the music of the paddles, to the scent of the officers' cigars, to the blood-red vomit of the tall stacks and the smoky flame of the torches. [9]
The scent of the flower is very sweet, but you want distance on it, because it is so powerful. [5]
The shoes gave the dogs the scent and they were set on to seize the man who had worn them, but whom no judge had examined. [10]
How pure is the air, how spicy is the scent from the fallen leaves on such an autumn day! [10]
Melissa had heard that the strong scent of the kyphi might prove injurious to Diodoros, and her one thought now was the desire that Galenus might soon approach his couch. [10]
The air was still, and heavy with the flowers' scent, and the sun was dipping behind the low eaves of the house. [9]
The sky was serene and bright, the air clear, perfumed with the fresh scent of newly fallen leaves, and grateful to every sense. [12]
The cool, moist scent of the leaves and grass came out from the woods and up from the plain, and the world was so full of content that a man's heart could cry out, even as now, while we look--eh, is it not good? [11]
Was it the scent of the chemicals in my cabin, coupled with some subterranean association of things, which brought these scenes vividly before me at this moment? [11]
The scent of roses was in the air, and a mass of them filled a silver bowl in the middle of the table. [9]
The garden of Rhodopis was as full of sound, and scent and blossom as a night in fairy-land. [10]
She stooped and ran her ungloved hand into the sawdust, as sweet before the sun has dried it as the scent of a rose. [11]
It is a pity they should die so soon; I shall dry the leaves and make scent of them. [10]
It took the parish of St. Saviour's so long to make up its mind who stole Jean Jacques' six thousand dollars, that when the hounds got the scent at last the quarry had reached the water--in other words, Sebastian Dolores had achieved the St. Lawrence. [11]
With every jar of wine a new torrent of merriment went up through the opening in the roof, by which the scent of the flowers and of the perfume burnt on beautiful little altars found an exit into the open air. [10]
He was conscious of the warmth of her body, the scent of perfume, and the creaking of her corset as she moved. [2]
In the middle of the lawn she stopped short once as if in doubt what to do--as a thought-reader pauses in his search for the mental scent again, ere he rushes upon the object of his search with the certainty of instinct. [11]
The heavy scent of the flowers coming in at the window almost suffocated her. [11]
Without that gift of natural sagacity (_odoratio quaedam venatica_),--a good scent for truth and beauty,--it appears as extravagance, whimsicality, eccentricity, or insanity, according to its degree of aberration. [6]
I see it now--the mottled plump of hounds upon the scent, the bright sun showing up the scarlet coats of the whips gloriously, the long stride of the hunters, ears back and quarters down! [11]
My friend is not to blame for the sensitiveness of his nose, any more than you would flog a pointer for being keener on the scent than a stupid watch dog. [5]
If he's been murdered and buried, they wouldn't bury him deep, it ain't likely, and if the dog goes over the spot he'll scent him, sure. [5]
And you, Mistress Margery, have of a surety known here in the Forest whither a false scent may lead.--Junker Kunz! [10]
But his scent, like the animal's, was keen. [11]
Of course I knew that he had been baiting me, his scent for the weaknesses of his friends being absolutely fiendish. [9]
We have lost it, but it lingers like some rare scent in the folds of lace. [11]
Selene never heeded it, but as the same air wafted the scent of the flowers in her face even stronger than before, she clutched her hair in her fingers and pulled it so violently that she actually groaned with the pain she gave herself. [10]
In this room it was almost dark; only two tiny lamps were burning before the icons and there was a pleasant scent of flowers and burnt pastilles. [2]
And now, indeed, it seemed that Quilp's malignant career was drawing to a close, and that retribution, which often travels slowly--especially when heaviest--had tracked his footsteps with a sure and certain scent and was gaining on him fast. [12]
Hunting in couples is curious and instructive; the scent for this or that kind of game is sure to be very different in the two individuals. [6]
There are lives into which the show of spring comes, but without the song of birds or the scent of flowers. [4]
To leave the house without taking stalks in the hair and garments was as impossible as for any person accustomed to better conditions, who did not wish to faint from discomfort, to do without a scent bottle. [10]
He had been hours upon hours each day alone with the birds, and squirrels, and wild animals, and something of the keen scent and instinct of the animal world had entered into his body and brain, so that he felt what he could not understand. [11]
He washed his hands and face in a silver basin, and the scent of the soap filled the room. [9]
Just as we had finished our labors a ragged and melancholy stranger, carrying an old hand-bag, limped by with his head down, and I caught the scent I had chased around the globe! [5]
My imagination had got started on the wrong scent, and that is always hopeless; one is sure, then, to go straight on misinterpreting everything, clear through to the end. [5]
The sun shone full upon it, as we stood there; and the air was full of the scent of tropical fruit and just-coming blossoms. [4]
Knowing Eda's ambitions for her were not those of a business career, she was in terror lest her friend should scent a romance, and for this reason she had never spoken of the symptoms Ditmar had betrayed. [9]
Austen alighted and followed Victoria into a great, cool hallway, and through two darkened rooms, bewilderingly furnished and laden with the scent of flowers, into a narrow passage beyond. [9]
The scent of flowers, too, intoxicated her young and inexperienced heart; she willingly offered her lips to his kisses, and with exquisite bliss felt the first glow of youthful love returned. [10]
The scent of flowers came in at the window. [2]
We walked on, enraptured by the sights around us, by the heavy scent of the roses and the blossoms. [9]
And what a delight in the pursuit of the rarities which the eager book-hunter follows with the scent of a beagle! [3]
It was court day as I rode into the little town of Jonesboro, the air sparkling like a blue diamond over the mountain crests, and I drew deep into my lungs once more the scent of the frontier life I had loved so well. [9]
There it was cool and quiet, with a scent of autumn. [2]
The scent was cold when I came. [5]
The air was clear, and full of the scent of the pines and cedars, and the rumble of the rapids came musically down the canon. [11]
The scent of camellias and magnolias floated on the heavy air of the night from the court-yards, reminding me of her. [9]
He sensed things; but with him it was feeling, and not scent or hearing; his senses were such perfect listeners. [11]
Men like Jonas Billings, who saw him, and had the scent for sensation, passed the word on downtown, as it is called, that something "was up" with Mazarine, and the railway station was the place where what was up could be seen. [11]
The teacher had been lulled to sleep by the increasing heat and the pervading scent of flowers, and her pupil had ceased to write. [10]
The police are already on the scent, I'll bet my hat. [9]
The presence of a woman for whom the sufferer's heart is on fire is as certain to aggravate the fever as the scent of incense. [10]
Once, too, in a slight breeze, the scent of some wild animal's nest near by came past, and I found it good. [11]
With how delicate a scent he had again discovered a secret and removed a stone of offence from his master's path! [10]
I have seen a physician examining a patient's chest stop all at once, as he brought out a particular sound with a tap on the collarbone, in the attitude of a pointer who has just come on the scent or sight of a woodcock. [3]
Now and then a few young priests in mourning robes glided through the infected rooms, silently swinging silver censers which diffused a pungent scent of resin and juniper. [10]
When I awoke a breeze came in cool, fitful gusts, and on it the scent of camellias. [9]

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