Certain scents

Usage examples of odors.

The boys fell to their chores, tantalized by the odors of roasting meat.

Despite the heat and the smells in the forge-for I was at the back of it, against the wall that ringed the home farm, and constantly inhaling the odd odors of hot metal and coal-I had a sense that these two men were on the brink of an extraordinary accomplishment.

He looked around at the sylvan beauty of the dome, inhaled the odors of cut grass and flowers and running water, folded his arms and stared at nothing.

It is composed of horrifying fragments, do-si-do-ing in a random partnering of all nightmare symbols, tinted with unlikely colors, accompanied by fetid odors, by intense heat and shivering cold and worst of all, nerve-memories of excruciating pain.

I would always associate the mingled odors of car-fuel, fresh slate wax and mid-morning musty heat with that scene.

He could smell delicious odors and realized that he had had very little to eat since that pre-dawn stale bread and coffee.

However, experiments with various odors had proved that a heavy citrus smell liberally poured on the outside of the blind covered the scent of the juicy morsels within and was a powerful deterrent to the snakes.

Scent, not smell, for although it was just as strong as the odors of Earth's passages, it was different.

They were making camp and someone had hunted successfully, for a pot burbled with appetizing odors on a tripod over a good hot fire.

The housekeeping programs were laboring overtime, pumping odors of pine, sea-salt and wildflowers into the air.

The hallway, which connected the Base to the airlock, was empty but he could smell sweat and other odors that indicated it had recently been occupied.

The odors of Human perspiration and/or the smells of the uniform material and gear they carried had provoked the only reaction from a queen yet recorded.

There were other odors mixed in with astringency, as well as traces of the strong smell that had assailed them as they entered the hi-bernatory.

While that left strong odors behind until the prevailing winds dispersed them, the pheromones matched none that might activate a queen's response.

She was aware of subtle odors in the facility, acrid, pungent, overlaid by the scent she used.