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Quotes About Pungent

Garlic is as good as ten mothers.
~ Les Blank
Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.
~ Washington Irving
At night, I'll do coconut oil or almond oil on my face as a mask to replenish my skin. I've found those are so simple but work better than any other product. Coconut oil is so good, but if you don't want to smell like a cookie, sweet almond oil isn't as pungent.
~ Phillipa Soo
A huge gust of cabbage blasted in Ben's face. It was like a great big slap of smell.
~ David Walliams
The taste on her palate was pungent and rich, the flavor of woodlands and dark earth simmered in sunshine.
~ Alison Croggon
Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.
~ Jennifer Egan
Experiment escorts us last- His pungent company will not allow an axiom An opportunity
~ Emily Dickinson
it smelled the way a garage would smell if you left a bear inside it for too long.
~ Adam Rex
I make a really delicious eggplant and squash curry that's inspired by Vij of Vij's Restaurant, a great chef and restaurateur in Vancouver. I like to cook that dish because it's really simple, but the flavor is so pungent and intense that I feel like I'm a real chef whenever I create it.
~ Carmen Ejogo
The plowing's done. The seed is spread. The weather is reminding me that, rain or shine, the earth abides, the land endures, the soil will persevere forever and a day. Its smell is pungent and high-seasoned. This is happiness.
~ Jim Crace
Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
And, furthermore, wherever they go, men may know these Alchemists by the smell of brimstone. For all the world, they stink as does a goat. Their reek is so pungent and so rancid that, though a man be a mile from them, the foul stench will infect him, trust me.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
My lord said, amongst other things, that he did not propose to burden the doctor with the details of his genealogy. He consigned the doctor and all his works, severally and comprehensively described, to hell, and finished up his epic speech by a pungent and Rabelaisian criticism of the whole race of leeches.
~ Georgette Heyer
The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
~ Arthur Golden
He would wordlessly light up his pungent antiasthma cigarettes in the middle of class and debate openly with his mathematics and literature teachers about inaccuracies he's caught them in.
~ Jon Lee Anderson
malodorous, and always supremely entertaining. Here too
~ Ben Macintyre
But here the stink was over-powering. It was as if you walked through it, around in it. It was everywhere and inescapable. I did not find out right away what the smell really was.
~ Eva Mozes Kor
It had this amazing spicy, pee-y smell.
~ Melvin Burgess
There is a long tradition of pungent living in the South. It was wonderful to have that imprinted on me so early in life. I already had my core when I left my little town in Texas.
~ Sissy Spacek
he stank more than any human joe had ever smelled, as if he had been dipped in some ungodly confection of camembert and rancid gasoline brewed up in a spit-filled cuspidor.
~ Michael Chabon
She had an interesting, slightly sweaty smell
~ Sylvia Plath
I don't like bad smells.
~ Carole Radziwill
but there was a queer, acrid smell about.
~ Bram Stoker
She'd loved their scent--not sweet and cloying like other flowers, but pungent. Assertive. She'd loved the way they sprang up wild in vacant lots and roadsides, reminders that true beauty is spontaneous and irrepressible.
~ Tess Gerritsen