Quotes About Smelled

Urban Americans lost the tactile experience of raising food. They neither heard the squeals, nor smelled he offal, nor saw the blood, nor tasted the rage when predators swallowed a cherished investment.

They softly issued forth exhalations of air that smelled like ancient yellow beasts.

The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men. They smelled as overpowering as boiling alcohol under a blanket.

Petroleum was hard to sell because it was costly to transport by wagon and smelled terrible in its raw state. Refining it required moving it from Oil Creek to one of the many refineries, most of them small, that sprang up between Titusville and Pittsburgh. But swampy or frozen dirt trails slick with spilled oil played hell with caravans of up to one hundred wagons loaded with thousands of gallons of barreled oil.

I don't care what your nose says! The last time you smelled half-blood, it turned out to be a meatloaf sandwich! Meatloaf sandwiches are good! But this is a half-blood scent, I swear. They are on board! Bah, your brain isn't on board!

By late afternoon, the chamber smelled of frustration and arguments gone stale.

I found the candles—atrocious air freshening ones that smelled like fake pine.

Toto did not like this addition to the party at first. He smelled around the stuffed man as if he suspected there might be a nest

Of course, many would say it was rich for him to have opinions about how women smelled, given that his signature odor was that of an old ashtray, overlain with a splash of Pour Un Homme on special occasions. Nevertheless, having spent much of his childhood in conditions of squalor, Strike found cleanliness a necessary trait in anyone he could find attractive. He'd liked Robin's previous scent, which he'd missed when she wasn't in the office.

and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.

I would take an oath that I smelled Agilus's blood on the rain-washed air before his head banged into the basket.

I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not it smelled like death, not youth.

Cathy looked to the staircase before following Ben to the living room. It didn't sound like anybody else was home. Didn't he say he lived with his parents? Didn't he say they were a little older? Needed his help around the house? It smelled like Ben needed a little help around the house.

Are you two still on hunting duty?" asked Graypaw innocently. "Never mind. We've been patrolling our territory borders. You'll be glad to know all is safe." "I'm sure the other Clans were terrified when they smelled you two coming!" yowled Dustpaw. "They didn't even dare show their faces," retorted Graypaw, unable to hide his anger.

MUCH AS I love the Jag, it's too conspicuous for everyday police work. So that day I was driving a battered silver ex–Metropolitan Police Ford Asbo that, despite my best efforts, smelled vaguely of old stakeouts and wet dog. I

The whole thing smelled like a thrift shop that had been baked in a low oven and felt like a too-tight and too-long hug by a rejected Muppet.

Conspiracy members included several best-selling novelists, one of whom had popularized the amusing idea that instead of burning to death, vampires smelled like roses in the sun

The pantry was cool and smelled of mice and boots.

Bruce and Shawn Chait are the stench in this courtroom, and I know I'm not the only one who smelled it," Padowitz said.

Her skin smelled like the twilight moon and her eyes looked primal, like a hungry animal. She was darkness – dangerous, beautiful darkness.

'Mystic River' just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.

couldn't be more Scottish if it was painted blue and smelled of burning peat and your ginger sister.

Adrian had a Guinness because I guess he felt like drinking a loaf of bread or something. That's what it smelled like, anyway.

I was driving by, doing a security check... and I smelled leg of lamb. Morelli