"Odor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the consciousness of the oak: its soul was still alive, enjoying its new form of existence, and it sent forth thrills of gratitude, which took the form of sweetest odor, filling the air around with fragrance. "Instead of losing my life it is being extended, even as the good leader of the people said," were its words as the two departed, bearing the flowers, instinct with its ...
— Allegories of Life • Mrs. J. S. Adams
... could detain the moment! that I could make some fitting verses to preserve this moment in my own memory! Could I but get into words the odor and the thick softness of this girl's hair as my hands, that are a-quiver in every nerve of them, caress her hair; and get into enduring words the glitter and the cloudy shadowings of her hair in this be-drenching moonlight! For I shall forget all this beauty, or ...
— Jurgen - A Comedy of Justice • James Branch Cabell
... meantime Ephraim had recovered from the shock sufficiently to detect the powerful odor of the stale egg ...
— Frank Merriwell's Chums • Burt L. Standish
... Some, however, hung down their heads in apparently hopeless dejection: some were greatly emaciated; and some, particularly children, seemed dying. The heat of these horrid places was so great, and the odor so offensive, that it was quite impossible to enter them, even had there ...
— An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans • Lydia Maria Child
... drawing-room, and which have not even the soft sound and the queer shape of the mahogany or veneered spinets, to which our grandmothers sighed out exquisite, long-forgotten ballads, and allowed their fingers to run over the keys, while around them there floated a delicate odor of powder and muslin, and some little Abbe or other turned over the leaves, and was continually making mistakes, as he was looking at the patches close to the lips on the white skin of the player instead of ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume II (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant
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