What is "odours"

Usage examples of "odours".

Herrings were soon after this despatching their odours through the chimneys of all Crikswich, and there was that much of concord and festive union among the inhabitants.

The wind had changed to the south, and wafted soft country odours to the shore, in place of sweeping to inland farms the scents of seaweed and broken salt waters, mingled with a suspicion of icebergs.

The air was full of sweet odours uplifted with the ascending dew, and trembled with a hundred songs at once, for here was a very paradise for birds.

The unchanging odours of the place sickened her, made her head ache, and robbed her of all appetite.

Blended odours of bacon and kippered herrings filled the room--indeed, the house, for several breakfasts were in progress under the same roof.

Lydia talked over these things with Mary in the kitchen below the shop, where odours of Christmas fare were already rife.

Pigeons, on the other hand, are not very good at learning odours, and a pigeon-maze, while not impossible, is hard to imagine.

The flies were then tested by being offered the choice of the two odours, and the proportion avoiding the shock-associated odour was compared with that avoiding the control odour.

The richness of our linguistic recall may be biologically no more mysterious than the capacity of a homing pigeon to navigate precisely over hundreds of kilometres or a dog to distinguish and remember thousands of different odours at almost infinitesimally low concentration.